A HIGHLY SCAFFOLDED ACTIVITY in which the students are guided to work in a methodical/systematic way to find the solutions. Each puzzle is based on a 5x4 rectangular grid that, in most cases, student only have to fit 3 unknown pentominoes in to the grid as one of them is shown in position. They should be familiar with checking for rotation and reflection symmetry as this is very important. THis includes: An instruction sheets. 9 Challenges across 8 Worksheets Blank Grids Full solutions in both Colour and B/W Solutions for each individual pentomino ALL the artwork I used to make this resource. Perhaps this could lead to some data analysis work. I have sets of PENTOMINOES, FREE to DOWNLOAD that match the colours used in this resource https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12501085

A COLLECTION OF 10 VERY COLOURFUL WORKSHEETS. ADDITION and SUBTRACTION PRACTICE over a range of difficulties using most of the DIFFERENT types of DICE you can get. e.g. D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 ( the answer totals do not exceed 30 in most cases) I have based it around a MONSTER theme to link it with some of my other resources.** ANSWER SHEETS ARE INCLUDED** If you are interested ALL my Monster clipart is available for FREE download https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12474182 THE DICE Clipart i have created will be available soon and will include over** 5000** high quality 300dpi PNG’s and PDF files for use in your own projects, Powerpoint and Displays etc.

ST George and the Dragoin Find the 20 differences between the two images of St. George fighting the dragon. This can also be a colouring activity.

If you use/download this resource PLEASE Comment/Follow so I can keep in touch if I update it or improve it. I have produced a Prime Factor Banner/Poster ** that can also be used along side this activity as well as a PRIME FACTOR FINDER PROGRAM that can be used for the answers on the whiteboard* FOR USE WITH PRIME FACTORS. CONTENTS: A SET OF CARDS WITH NUMBERS 2-100 Aprrox 4.5cm x 4.5 cm each All composite (non-primes) are in square boxes Primes are in circles A SET OF ALL THE PRIME NUMBER (VARIOUS QUANTITIES) A SET OF INDICES (in hexagons) Instructions Pick a number - students have to make that number just using the prime cards CAN BE USED CONSTRUCTING PRIME FACTOR TREES OR what works well if you put all the composite (non-prime cards in a bag) and then pick one out OR Use like a LUCKY DIP Walk around class and get individual pupils/tables to pick one(or more) out of the bag. PUPILS MAKE THEIR NUMBER(S) using their PRIME Number cards Multiplication and Power/indices cards can also be used. I have produced a Prime Factor Banner/Poster for Prime factors that can also be used along side this activity as well as a PRIME FACTOR FINDER PROGRAM that can be used for the answers on the whiteboard

INCLUDED: This A3 GAME BOARD (Looks great laminated) Play/rules involve using SQUARE and PRIME numbers and much more PUPILS can also record what type/colour of squares they land on and tally/graph them I am sure there are other uses the game could be used for. RED squares have SQUARE NUMBERS GREEN squares have PRIME NUMBERS and have People on:child, young adult, old adult BLUE squares have TRIANGLE NUMBERS ORANGE squares have some ATOMIC NUMBERS PURPLE squares have PERFECT NUMBERS YELLOW squares have INTERNATIONAL DIRECT-DIAL CODES(country indicated by flag) PINK have related to MISCELLANEOUS FACTS about that number (some maths some ‘fun’ **ADVANCED VERSION available as a separate DOWNLOAD his includes: Rules for 2 different ways to play the game Advanced 1 - Uses a SCORE CARD so the player can check off all the numbers they have landed on. Each of these has a particular POINTS VALUE BONUS points are awarded in certain conditions THE POINTS TOTAL HAS THEN TO BE WORKED OUT Advanced 2 - Uses a set of CARDS to COLLECT (instead of the SCORE CARD) Each of these cards have INFORMATION about that particular number and includes maths,science and fun facts BONUS points are awarded in certain conditions THE POINTS TOTAL HAS THEN TO BE WORKED OUT BY COUNTING THE NUMBER OF POINTS ON EACH CARD ALSO INCLUDED: GAME RULES, SCORE CARD, SET OF CARDS FOR EACH NUMBER (+BONUS CARDS) SET OF A5 mini-posters for SQUARE,TRIANGLE,PRIME and PERFECT NUMBERS + ALL INDIVIDUAL CLIP-ART**

How many time do other gear(s) turn when the initial gear turns and which direction do they turn? Next level up from GEARS 2A - this time the direction of turn is required and some turns expressed as fractions. Hopefully student will be starting to get the idea that it is only the FIRST and LAST gears that need to be considered in calculations as intermediate/inbetween gears do not make any difference. 2 worksheets 10 questions Gear clip-art and question images are included for use in your other documents.

A set of mathematical logic/reasoning puzzles involving gears. 4 worksheet - 7 top level questions with 74 subquestions. Includes: Files as PDF and WORD also POWERPOINT with the questions on for class discussion plus All the questions and individual gears as CLIP-ART for use in you own documents.

2 Spot the difference puzzles for Red Nose Day has 10 differences has 15 difference These are reasonably challenging.

An slightly different, but I hope interesting resource for simple addition and subtraction of numbers up to 20 using robots/number machines. EXPLANATION POWERPOINT (24 slides) Initially: 4 worksheets with answers ALL the clip art I used to make the resource for you to use. use the clip art to make your own worksheets or large scale robots for lessons or displays Please note This resource is the beginnings of an idea. It is as uploaded and as yet UNTESTED with a class. It has been designed to make basic calculations a bit more interesting and in some of the examples a little more challenging. Please let me know what you think of this as an idea and if it is any good and thoughts on improving it. Any questions please contact me. I will make more associated resources if people think it will be worthwhile. Please REVIEW if possible I can be found on twitter @wardee72

It is an Adobe Flash file but even if you don’t have this installed it works in Internet Explorer (Right click and open with IE) It is a 2 player game that I have used as a starter (mainly around November 5th in the UK) OR EVEN BASED an ENTIRE LESSON AROUND IT I give the pupils the choice of going first or second. Either me Vs 1 pupil or me Vs the class As I know the strategy that you have to get to 3,9 or 15 first to make sure you it doesn’t matter who goes first as I usually win and it makes them more eager to have another go. It really gets the pupils fired up and after a few games someone might notice what the strategy is or rather part of it. They’ll probably notice first that you alwasy get to 15 first so get them to explain why. (it’s usually “…well if we add 1 you’ll add 5 or if we add 4 you’ll add 2…” etc Get them to think about what they have just said 1+5,2+4 …so its something to do with 6 15 is 6 less than 21 … perhaps you can use this knowledge to make sure you get to 15 first etc etc I have gone on to get them to investigate other target numbers eg 47 find the first number you need to get to 47 /6 is 7 remainder 5 so you need to go first and say 5 if the next player adds 2 you need to add 4 (2+4=6) What would happen if you could place up to 10 barrels and target number was 100?

I think this will be a very challenging but useful activity Answers included or should that be nswrs ncldd. A great activity at any time of the year BASED ON THE KEY STAGE 3 GENERAL SPELLING LIST perhaps try to complete it over the Christmas Holidays It could be set as a competition -individual/small group/ table Each pupil could be given a different set of questions. A table could be given all 10 sheets or all the same sheet and work collaboratively Lots of possible variations Please lets me know how it goes.

75 questions over 5 worksheets wth ANSWERS

**If you download and use this Free resource could you please comment/follow so I can use the information to develop addition resources ** A PDF file that had Ladybird Dominoes from 0-0 to 10-10 (66 dominoes over 11 pages) Normal set of dominoes 0-0 to 6-6 just print off pages 1 to 5 A very good activity for learning practicing number bonds to 10 (see image) or just used to play normal dominoes. Other possible ideas are outlined in the PDF. I have printed off a few sets on card and laminated them and are a big hit with the students Each domino is 6cmx12cm at 100% size (print off at lower % if smaller size is required)

I have also provided these as unnumbered CLIP-ART(PDF) to use in you own WORKSHEETS, POWERPOINTS or NOTEBOOK files etc. Each questions comes with its own working/answers also as clipart linked by file name e.g. ASSET 1 / ASSET 1 ANS etc The questions vary in difficulty and include 2D and 3D examples and in some will need other skills such as circumference of a circle etc. I hope they are useful

Logic/reasoning skills activity - Addition and subtraction skills up to 18 36 Questions (6 Questions per worksheet) that can be done as worksheet or cut into individual questions to stick into books ANSWERS INCLUDED Also see my MONSTER MATHS 1 and MONSTER MATHS 2 AND JUNIOR PUZZLE LEVEL 1, 3 and 4 uploads

Logic/reasoning skills activity - Addition and subtraction skills up to 18 36 Questions (6 Questions per worksheet) that can be done as worksheet or cut into individual questions to stick into books ANSWERS INCLUDED Also see my MONSTER MATHS 1 and MONSTER MATHS 2 uploads as well as Junior Levels 2, 3 and 4

I have only used this in an after-school club. The students appeared to like the challenge of drawing the best picture. To use it Adobe Flash Player will need to be installed on the computer (most have it automatically installed) and may work if opened in Internet Explorer Simple to use - Arrow Keys Change colour ,speed and size of pen by clicking with mouse. HARD to get a good picture ( as I suppose an Etch-A-Sketch is). It anyone wants to save and print one they’ve done you’ll have to ‘screen-shot’ it. ( but then you couldn’t keep an Etch-A-Sketch picture) Please comment if you find a use for it

Find 2 of the angles in a triangle using their ratios given the third. Use the worksheets but I can see the CLIP-ART probably being more useful as all 144 questions are included as separate files that can be used in your own worksheets/Powerpoints/Whiteboard files.

Find the angles ion a straight line using algebraic information. Use the worksheets but I can see the CLIP-ART probably being more useful as all 108 questions are included as separate files that can be used in your own worksheets/Powerpoints/Whiteboard files.

3 worksheets - 24 questions. Complete the fraction diagrams and equations. The diagrams give scaffolding to working with equivalent fractions. I had also added the 700+ fraction diagrams I have created to make my fractions resources. for use in staff worksheets/ PowerPoints etc