Looking for a fun and engaging way to challenge your students’ problem-solving skills? Look no further than our “Pathfinder” worksheet pack! With 30 different worksheets included, each with their own unique path and answer grid, this resource is perfect for helping your students develop their critical thinking and logic skills. The aim of each worksheet is to answer eight questions at the bottom of the sheet, with each question linking to an answer above. All eight answers either link horizontally or vertically. The path always starts at the top left cell of the grid and finishes in the bottom right position of the grid. Once students have found the correct answers, they label their grid path with steps 1-8, with the top left always being 1 and the bottom right always being 8. Finally, students copy the numbers from the grid above and match them with their answers in the final right column (Section of Loop). This provides an 8-digit code that makes it easy for teachers to mark. Our “Pathfinder” worksheet pack is a great way to keep your students engaged and challenged while practicing their problem-solving skills. With popular search terms like “logic puzzles,” “critical thinking worksheets,” and “problem-solving activities,” our resource is sure to be a hit with both students and teachers alike. So why wait? Try our “Pathfinder” worksheet pack today!

This resource is an engaging and interactive lesson designed to teach Year 7 students in a second set state school in the UK about the basics of algebra, specifically defining variables and forming basic expressions. The lesson is accompanied by a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation that utilizes fun and engaging GIFs to help students master the topic through the use of pictures. With many slides and an easy starter, this resource provides an excellent visual way to introduce students to the topic of algebra and helps to foster a strong understanding of the fundamentals. The PowerPoint presentation includes questions of varying difficulty levels, which can be used to challenge students and gauge their understanding of the topic. Students can be given five minutes to answer the questions, and a timer on the right-hand side keeps them engaged and on task. The PowerPoint also includes a variety of timings, making it adaptable to different class needs. This flexibility ensures that the lesson can be adjusted to suit the needs of each class. Additionally, this resource includes a range of worksheets, providing students with further opportunities to practice their algebraic skills. The worksheets range from basic to more complex, with hints and answers provided to help students at all levels. There are even super-duper challenge questions for the most advanced students. Watch video for full details. A summary of the video is as follows:

One of the most popular tools I use as a plenary or a starter with an inifinite number of difficulty levels. Is a tool in order for children to manipulate numbers, using the four operations. The children start with a beginning number, and they have to manipulate the number up to 17 times in order to get an answer. There are three levels of difficulty on this worksheet. And I have found this to be a very exciting starter or plenary activity. It can be used with all different types of age groups, because there is a level of challenge and differentiation depending on the level chosen, the time given to the children. Questions can be revealed on the screen at once or you can slowly give you operations to the students from the board. Please leave a review

Ideal starter for KS3, although could be used for younger or older as differentiation available. The general concept has been derived from a function machine. You start with 9 input numbers, which needs to go through an operation. The operation for this specific function machine is to find percentages of amounts. So you need to find 66% of 30 to the nearest integer. There are a total of four operations so there up to 36 answers students need to find. Working alongside this is a more challenging sheet, which involves the students using the ‘output’ numbers first to work out the ‘input’ numbers, and hence understanding the importance of working backwards through the operations. Most importantly, both the basic style worksheet and the challenging worksheet work in conjunction with each other, such that they both link to the same solutions, which are provided. The picture provided demonstrates the answers to one of the potential worksheets. You click on the arrow tab for a new worksheet OR alternatively the ‘delete’ button. When you print make sure you click print ‘current sheet’ Has been used many times successfully within classrooms for year 7s, 8s, and year 9s. Please leave reviews if you found this resource helpful! For a bundle of 4 of these resources see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/last-minute-starter-differentiated-worksheets-number-pc-fractions-and-more-solutions-11692992

• Worksheet generator with infinite questions • 8 questions every worksheet, 2 on mode, 2 on median, 2 on range, and 2 on mean. • Answers for every worksheet • Ability to print different worksheets for the same class, using different tabs of the excel spreadsheet, enabling more accurate assessment. • Saves on printing, 3 worksheets fit on one side of A4 This is a worksheet generator, generating 8 questions regarding mean, median, mode and range of 4 numbers, which are derived each time from a 4x4 grid. The numbers have been devised such that the mean is always an integer, the median may or may not be a whole number (sometimes it is a decimal), the mode may or may not exist, and the range varies between values of 10 and 0. At a simple click of a button a brand new worksheet is generated, with new numbers in the grid, and a new order of questions. This is great way of quickly assessing students for their understanding after some time spent not revising the topic, or for revising the topic at the end of a topic. Due to this worksheet’s consistent nature it can be used to measure progress over some time. In addition this worksheet provides an extension, which involves the students adding all 8 answers they have obtained. As a result, if they obtain a number that is correct, therefore they have been able to self-check their own answers in being correct. Finally an answer key is given with every worksheet, which you can access by simply pressing a macro button. Furthermore, printing is simple with 3 questions fitting on a 'landscape' orientated piece of paper, with an included answer key given in small at the bottom for the teacher, meaning you don't need access to the computer to provide answers if this is not required or wanted. If you would like a sample of this resource please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mean-median-range-and-mode-worksheet-from-a-grid-8-questions-3-sets-of-questions-fit-on-a-side-11872099?theme=0 If you found this useful please review :D

Ideal starter for KS3, although could be used for younger or older as differentiation available. The general concept has been derived from a function machine. You start with 9 input numbers, which needs to go through an operation. The operation for this specific function machine is to find percentages of amounts. So you need to find 66% of 30 to the nearest integer. There are a total of four operations so there up to 36 answers students need to find. Working alongside this is a more challenging sheet, which involves the students using the ‘output’ numbers first to work out the ‘input’ numbers, and hence understanding the importance of working backwards through the operations. Most importantly, both the basic style worksheet and the challenging worksheet work in conjunction with each other, such that they both link to the same solutions, which are provided. The picture provided demonstrates the answers to one of the potential worksheets. You click on the arrow tab for a new worksheet OR alternatively the ‘delete’ button. When you print make sure you click print ‘current sheet’ Has been used many times successfully within classrooms for year 7s, 8s, and year 9s. Please leave reviews if you found this resource helpful! For a bundle of 4 of these resources see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/last-minute-starter-differentiated-worksheets-number-pc-fractions-and-more-solutions-11692992

This resource is based upon the popular idea of a crossword. However instead of using words, numbers are used instead. Clues are given by the yellow boxes in the forms of expressions. Some of the clues involve one step, whereas others involve two steps. Could use sheet with or without calculator depending on ability of the class. What is particularly special about this resource is that by pressing the button on the new worksheet tab you can get an entirely different set of questions. Therefore, this starter is great as a settler activity over a number of lessons, as it’s general structure stays the same whilst the numbers change for each worksheet. Also, it can show progress over time, as students should get quicker and become more confident at answering these starter questions. You also get two diferentiated resources for each worksheet, as both the easier and harder worksheets provided give the same answers, whilst usefully giving different questions allowing differentiation within a class.

This is a worksheet generator for nth term sequences. It generates linear sequences of increasing difficulty, including decimal sequences, decreasing sequences, and sequences that start on both positive and negative numbers. There is also a tab for increasing difficulty quadratic sequences. Additionally, you can alternatively give students the ‘nth term rule’ and get them to generate the first few terms. Please review if you found useful :)

This is a worksheet generator which involves finding the angles within a hexagon, and all the shapes within this hexagon. At a click of a button you can regeneratre new questions. This worksheet also involves algebra to calculate angles, for examples some of the angles are defined as ‘h+?’, where ‘?’ is an integer. Also included is an exterior angle extension If you found this resource useful please review :) For the free version of this resource please see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/interior-angles-of-polygons-within-polygons-including-triangles-quadrilaterals-and-a-hexagon-free-11932903

This is a 4 tab worksheet generator. The first two tabs regard simplifying 20 different ratios. Some of the ratios are simple to simplify, others are more challenging and others you are unable to simplify. There is a cross over with the easy and hard worksheet, because 11 questions are the same. The harder worksheet generally deals with larger numbers, so involves division of larger numbers to fully simplify the ratios. The third tab involves ratio of amounts, and if you want to you can link this to the first sheet, the easy sheet, because the ratio of amounts you have to find involve the same ratios given by sheet one. If you want different questions for the third sheet [so they don’t link to the first worksheet] you just click the ‘new worksheet’ button. As this is a workhseet generator there is an infinite number of questions that can be generated. Finally, the worksheet has been paired with ‘macro buttons’ making it very easy to reveal the answers of the questions, alongside the questions, within seconds. This means the sheets are great when students are working from the board or working from a worksheet.

This worksheet generator gives you an infinite possible questions at a click of the ‘new worksheet’ button on every tab. Free worksheet version of this is TES RECCOMENDED! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-percentage-bubbles-calculator-non-calculator-8-free-problems-11871070 Each of the questions involve an extension question, in which students sum all of their answers, and check it matches the correct answer for the sum. This is a fantastic feature of the worksheet, as the students can ensure that their answers are correct without unnecessary intervention from the teacher. These sheets have 8 bubbles in total for each question, giving a total of 64 sub-questions. The differing percentages you need to find are consistent for the top left and bottom left problems i.e. for all these problems you need to find 75%, 30%, 50% etc. of the original value. However, these percentages are in a random order for each question. The right hand side problems requires you to find more specific percentages, which will generally require the use of a calculator (but can be done without a calculator). Moreover, the bottom right problem requires you to find percentages greater than 100% as well as less than 100%, which can nicely lead students onto understanding the importance of multipliers in the topic percentages. Due to using highly composite numbers, the resulting amounts, are generally whole numbers. Please review if you found helpful :D

Ideal starter for KS3, although could be used for younger or older as differentiation available. The general concept has been derived from a function machine. You start with 9 input numbers, which needs to go through an operation. The operation for this specific function machine is to find fractions of amounts. So you need to find five sixths of 30 for example. There are a total of four operations so there up to 36 answers students need to find. Working alongside this is a more challenging sheet, which involves the students using the ‘output’ numbers first to work out the ‘input’ numbers, and hence understanding the importance of working backwards through the operations. Most importantly, both the basic style worksheet and the challenging worksheet work in conjunction with each other, such that they both link to the same solutions, which are provided. The picture provided demonstrates the answers to one of the potential worksheets. You click on the arrow tab for a new worksheet OR alternatively the ‘delete’ button. When you print make sure you click print ‘current sheet’ Has been used many times successfully within classrooms for year 7s, 8s, and year 9s. Please leave reviews if you found this resource helpful! For a bundle of 4 of these resources see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/last-minute-starter-differentiated-worksheets-number-pc-fractions-and-more-solutions-11692992

Ideal starter for KS3, although could be used for younger or older as differentiation available. The general concept has been derived from a function machine. You start with 9 input numbers which need to go through two operations, subsequently creating an output. The operation for this specific function machine involves four operations, and negative numbers. So you start with 6 and then ‘x6 +2’. There are a total of four operation pairs, so there up to 36 answers students need to find. Working alongside this is a more challenging sheet, which involves the students using the ‘output’ numbers first to work out the ‘input’ numbers, and hence understanding the importance of working backwards through the operations. Most importantly, both the basic style worksheet and the challenging worksheet work in conjunction with each other, such that they both link to the same solutions, which are provided. The picture provided demonstrates the answers to one of the potential worksheets. You click on the arrow tab for a new worksheet OR alternatively the ‘delete’ button. Has been used many times successfully within classrooms for year 7s, 8s, and year 9s. Please leave reviews if you found this resource helpful! For a free sample of this resource see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/function-machine-style-worksheets-differentiated-engaging-with-solutions-11851145 For a bundle of 4 of these resources see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/last-minute-starter-differentiated-worksheets-number-pc-fractions-and-more-solutions-11692992

This worksheet has been designed predominantely for KS3, there are 3 options in terms of the worksheet tabs. Each worksheet contains 8 linking division problems. The first tab is designed to optimise printing because there are 4 worksheets on one side of A4, the second tab gives you a question sheet (varying difficulty) and the third tab provides the answers. This is a worksheet generator so you can have an inifinite number of questions with matching answers. The idea is you start with a number at the top of the wheel, and you have to work out what you need to divide this number by to get to the number below - ultimately finding a missing number in a division equation. The process of this worksheet specifically involves students asking themselves how they get from one number to another by dividing. For example, in the example in the left picture students would ask themselves how they get from: 720 to 360 (divide by 2) 720 to 144 (divide by 5) 720 to 72 (divide by 10) 360 to 45 (divide by 8) 72 to 9 (divide by 8) 144 to 36 (divide by 4) 36 to 9 (divide by 4) 45 to 9 (divide by 5) • Division worksheet generator • Variety of smaller and larger numbers used as the largest number. • Matching answers • Easy to use, quick to print! • Compact on printing (3 sheets per A4) • Structure of sheet stays the same so good measuring progress / increasing consistency.* If you want a free sample of this visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/division-wheel-3-worksheets-with-answers-starter-11867451

A 144 Powerpoint presentation which I have made to include all the numbers which are divisible by 1-12, which are between 1-144. You can choose specific division, such as ‘Division by 7’ OR you can test on all of these in a random order. Great for using as a whole class activity or for individual use as a homework activity. Every slide includes an answer. Clear instructions included. Really good to create a competitive, yet useful learning environment for the students.

This is a set of ‘live drawings’ of various circle theorem examples, all drawn by hand. Each example has ‘teaching notes’ as a possible suggestion of how it can be used in a classroom. All videos are silent maximising classroom participation, by ensuring students are explaining what’s going on in the videos or silently engaging with the visuals. Please leave a review if you found helpful :) Sub topics include: Angles in the same segment, angle at the centre is twice the angle at the circumference, and angles in alternate segments.

This is an engaging, and interactive 5 slide Powerpoint presentation which I made involving cars moving across a cartoon screen. You choose the slide you would like to test the students on and click ‘from current slide’, once the slideshow is full screen and the children are ready to view the animation you press the right arrow key and a ‘go’ symbol will drop from the top of the screen demonstrating the begininning of the process. Various cars will move from left to right, and right to left of the screen, with the aim for students to answer 5 questions such as: What is the sum of all the wheels in this animation? What is the difference in the number of cars going from left to right, in comparison to the cars going right to left What fraction of cars are yellow? What is the ratio of yellow, green and pink cars? What percentage of the cars are orange? To more challenging questions such as: If 10% of wheels get punctured during a journey, what is the expected numbers of wheels to get punctured in this animation? What is the expected probability of the car going from left to the right of the screen? If a customer wants to choose one of these cars at random what is the probability that the car is yellow, give as a fraction? What is the probability of a customer picking a yellow or a pink car, given as a percentage ? What’s the probability of a customer picking an orange car? The cars vary in colour, and starting time, which means the questions can be varied. Easy to edit the questions for yourself. If you found this resource useful please review. If you want more information see video!

This is an excel spreadsheet which can generate an infinite number of questions involving subtraction. This exercise is particularly suitable for those who need practice with borrowing when subtracting, as every single problem requires you to do this. There are 9 tabs included within this resources, including the subtraction of 2 digits, 3 digits, and 4 digits (or subtraction of numbers in the tens, hundreds and thousands), alongside this are matching answers. Subtraction often involves borrowing ‘from the next door neighbour’ and this drill helps build in practice with the importance of getting this skill correct. I have used this with bottom set year 9s to build their confidence with the operation of subtraction. Please review this resource if you found helpful :)

This worksheet involves 24 questions, which all have either 4 or 6 terms in, which need to be simplified before factorisation into double brackets. When you factorise these expressions, we have both examples of the variable with a coefficient equal to 1, and greater than one. The first section of the worksheet is easier, as it has just 4 terms that need to be factorised, and a coefficient of the variable being 1 in both brackets. Whereas the latter section of the worksheet is more challenging, as it has 6 terms that need to be factorised, and a coefficient of the variable being greater than 1 in at least one of the factorised. There are also harder questions which are attached which involve you having to solve the quadratics, rather than just factorising. This involves setting the equations equal to zero and finding the value of the unknown for two brackets. This worksheet is a generator, providing an infinite number of opportunites for anew worksheet. The worksheet is designed such that all 24 questions, at every click of a ‘new worksheet’ button are unique. That is 24 out of the 26 letters of the alphabet are used for a new worksheet, randomly, creating uniquenes. Furthermore, the signs of this worksheet are changed every time you generate another worksheet. Finally, the order of terms for the latter questions are varied, in order to teach students’ the importance of looking for like terms before collecting terms and simplifying, and finally factorising.

A whole lesson I designed for an interview lesson for an year 5 independent school. A great visual way for introducing students into the topic of multiplying fractions. This lesson specifically focuses on multiplying proper fractions with whole numbers. The most engaging part of this lesson is the gifs used during the lesson, and the opportunity for students to really master the topic through the use of pictures. Slideshow is 35 slides long and includes a kinaestetic starter, a kinaestetic group activity, several examples, main worksheet, ‘pit stops’, timers, solutions, audio bites and a plenary. If you have found this useful please leave a review.