I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
Sarah needed a simple activity to remind her functional skills learners of the names of plane and solid shapes, so I quickly made this.
The plan is to show the name and the properties, and the learners sketch the shape.
Unfortunately I couldn't get the animation to work, so I've built up the slides to show possible results.
You can easily remove the properties - change as you like.
I've lots more stuff on TES on plane and solid shapes, if you look at my shop.
Plus the net of a box. The plan is to get the learners to adapt this to make a box to hold four cup-cakes.
And an activity of making a box to hold cup-cakes.
Enjoy.
The National Curriculum in maths for Years 3 to 6 in Word documents. Full specifications, plus all attainment targets in tables.
Seventeen different files for flexible planning of Years 3 - 6 maths National Curriculum. All in Word for ease of editing.
Statutory requirements, both as list and a table for recording progress etc.
Notes and non-statutory guidance to keep as an appendix.
Full specs as one long continuous document, again, in Word for cutting and pasting where needed.
Full set of resources to cover types of number for mathematics national curriculum in Year 5. Great for preparation for SATs in Year 6, or revision at KS3.
Four clear PowerPoints with lots of questions and exercises, all with answers.
Specifications:
‘Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers.’
I’ve tried the files myself on a different computer, and had to adjust the size of text on four or five slides, but very easy to do. And because not all systems work the same I’ve included a PDF of each of the presentations - even easier to show and will always be as intended.
Specs Year 4'Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value.'
Year 5 'Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.'
Thirty slides on an animated PowerPoint to introduce recognition of Roman numerals, and explore the advantage of Arabic numerals.
Plus lots of activities/worksheets, including Emperors' reigns, Roman roads, Olympiads, Children's TV (years), and answers.
All great fun, and could be cross-curricular.
Maths KS3 or KS4 revision. Trigonometric ratios, moving from tan to sine and cosine.
Everything you need for a full lesson or two to develop trigonometry from the tangent ratio to sine and cosine.
Let the learners tackle the activities, or guide them through with PowerPoint presentations.
Presentations, worksheets, activities and solutions.
Please leave comments, suggestions or corrections.
Fractions addition and subtraction with different denominators. KS2 Year 6, but great for revision in KS3, and essential for foundation GCSE, and not a few higher candidates would benefit too.
Warm up worksheet that asks the learners to find common multiples and common factors, through word questions.
Colourful presentation covering the definitions of a fraction, and why the numerator has to be the same. One example, and then a small selection for the learners to find the lowest common denominator.
Finally a worksheet for the learners to try out, or revise, these new skills.
Does not include addition of mixed numbers - all simple results less than one.
All worksheets in Word and PDF, and all answers included! The presentation has been updated to include an older version of PowerPoint, a revised v2 which might fit better, and a PDF version which will work on any system.
Year 6 specs say:
‘use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
add and subtract fractions with different denominators’
Key Stage 3 mathematics specs:
Standard Form KS3
• interpret and compare numbers in standard form A×10n, 1≤A
Two sides of data, for positive and negative indices, of science data to change between ordinary numbers and standard form.
Great for revision for GCSE classes.
Answers included!
‘Work interchangeably with terminating decimals and their corresponding fractions (such as 3.5 and 7/2 or 0.375 or 3/8); change repeating decimals into their corresponding fractions and vice versa.’
A simple investigation into which fractions terminate and which recur, on PowerPoint and in Word, with a big set of results in PowerPoint to encourage class discussion.
A PowerPoint presentation of the method, with some examples to do as a class or individually, plus a worksheet of fourteen questions, with answers. A clear and fully supported lesson.
Grade 4 Presentation warm up, two more sequences sets on PowerPoint, and two worksheets, the second quite challenging. Plus a ‘sticks and dots’ pattern set with lots of pictures.
'5. Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule “Add 3” and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.'
All you need for a lesson covering:
derive and use the sum of angles in a triangle and use it to deduce the angle sum in any polygon, and to derive properties of regular polygons.
A simple example of a triangle sum proof, an investigation into angle sums in both PowerPoint and Word, for classwork or individual work, and plenty of questions for learners to try. Plus a PowerPoint illustrating a variety of tessellation for learners to consider the geometry involved, and hence deduce necessary angle properties.
Common Core Standards
Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right
triangles
6. Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are
properties of the angles in the triangle, leading to definitions of
trigonometric ratios for acute angles.
Everything you need to deliver a full lesson (or two) to introduce trigonometry through similar triangles and the tangent function. Presentation, activities, worksheets, along with answers, covering all aspects of the Common Core Standards.
Please leave comments, suggestions or corrections.
A PowerPoint presentation to explore the nature of Scientific notation, deriving the methods. Simple worksheet on conversions and another on calculations. Plus card matching activity and pair-matching activity. Everything to teach and explore the subject. Grade 8 – Multiple resources for teaching powers of 10 and scientific notation. Presentation, worksheets and activities.
3. Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other.
4. Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
A great lesson for getting the learners to work together and do it for themselves. A matching card activity to get them started on a discussion of inequalities. A poster and a PowerPoint display are provided to remind learners of the symbols. An animated PowerPoint presentation of the solutions allows learners to say what they have before the answer pops up. A worksheet provides for consolidation of learning. And finally a quiz is provided for plenary, or recap at the start of the next lesson.
This whole lesson always goes down very well in my classroom! And no work for teacher, after preparing the materials that is!
Year 4 - Geometry – properties of shapes
Two separate bundles of activities covering (a) triangles and (b) quadrilaterals, all for the new KS2 specifications. Specifically written for Year 4, they can easily be used at any level. In Word for editing or PDF for clear copies. Activities, worksheets and assessments, plus a short presentations on triangles and quadrilaterals. The presentations are included as PowerPoints and PDFs, to ensure at least one will open on any computer.
Statutory requirements
Pupils should be taught to:
• compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes
Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
Pupils continue to classify shapes using geometrical properties, extending to classifying different triangles (for example, isosceles, equilateral, scalene) and quadrilaterals (for example, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezium).
Pupils compare and order angles in preparation for using a protractor and compare lengths and angles to decide if a polygon is regular or irregular.
Everything needed for tree diagrams for probability - a presentation on probability rules for addition and subtraction, a PowerPoint on drawing tree diagrams, and a worksheet for the learners to answer questions on tree diagrams.
All photographs (c)2015 Colin Billett
Math Grade 7
Find probabilities of compound events using organized lists, tables, tree diagrams, and simulation.
a. Understand that, just as with simple events, the probability of a compound event is the fraction of outcomes in the sample space for which the compound event occurs.
b. Represent sample spaces for compound events using methods such as organized lists, tables and tree diagrams. For an event described in everyday language (e.g., “rolling double sixes”), identify the outcomes in the sample space which compose the event.
Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions. For example, apply the distributive property to the expression 3 (2 + x) to produce the equivalent expression 6 + 3x; apply the distributive property to the expression 24x + 18y to produce the equivalent expression 6 (4x + 3y); apply properties of operations to y + y + y to produce the equivalent expression 3y.
Card matching activity with rectangles in algebraic form, answers with and without brackets or parentheses.
PowerPoint presentation with solutions for class checking. Worksheet of twelve questions each of expanding and factorizing using same method, with boxes. Second PowerPoint for starter or checking learning. Three more short worksheets of mixed questions. Plus ‘objectives’ slide. All you need for this straightforward topic, and lots of opportunity for discussion.
Grade 8 – ‘Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. For example, 32 × 3–5 = 3–3 = 1/33 = 1/27.’
PowerPoint to introduce the rules of integer exponents, using number and with lots for the learners to do, and which can be used as a prelude to algebraic manipulation of exponents and radicals. Refresher activity on Grade 6 powers and radicals, plus a worksheet on more complex examples for high schools.
And a single page 'matching' activity in PowerPoint or PDF.
