The powerpoint show is designed to be used as mini-whiteboard activity, to identify misconceptions and to allow whole class discussion on key points where appropriate. It rarely takes up more than 15 minutes of a lesson and is aimed at low ability students across KS3 and KS4. I supplement with text books and other resources, of which I do not have ownership to share here.<br /> The excel document is designed to be used as a starter. There are three copies of the same starter on each tab, to save on photocopying. It is a good 'entry' task. Duration 5-10 minutes.<br /> The word document is a Quiz-Quiz-Trade actvity. Duration 5-10 mins.<br />

I prepared this for a middle ability Year 10 class, but I have also used it with an above average Year 8 class.<br /> <br /> 1) Polygons and Angles (a diagnostic presentation to assess whether or not I needed to do more preparation with the class before moving onto angles in polygons.) It reviews regular/irregular polygons and angles in triangles/quadrilaterals. (5 - 10 mins)<br /> <br /> 2) Sum of Interior Angles. This took me an hour with my Year 8 class, but they do ask pertinent questions, and are good at finding alternative methods to answer questions, which they are keen to demonstrate. Also, whilst I don't include much chat on the slides, I do talk around them, quite a bit, so might not take as long for you and your class.<br /> <br /> 3) Interior and Exterior Angles of Regular Polygons. Similarly this took me about an hour to complete with my Year 8 class.<br /> <br /> 4) Decagons. A page of decagons that can be cut out and given to students for the challenge question on slide __ of the Sum of Interior Angles PPT.<br />

This resource can be used as revision, a starter or a plenary and each worksheet should take the students approximately 10 minutes to complete. <br /> The word document contains three worksheets. Students are expected to describe each transformation fully. Rotations, Reflections and Translations only. There are about six questions on each worksheet. <br /> The flipchart can be used to demonstrate the answers.

A very repetitive mini whiteboard activity. Consequently, I do not use the full show for all groups.<br /> If it is a review exercise for a middle ability group, I would only use slides 41-55 or 41-62. Slides 56-62 cover reverse percentages.<br /> For weaker classes, I would first check that students can convert from a decimal to a percentage and then start from the beginning slide and decide on an end point.<br /> As is usual with most of my presentations, it is designed for me to assess who knows what and hence where to start my teaching and should only take up 5-15 mins of the lesson.

This is a starter exercise on 'Factorising'. I use it after we have mastered expanding single brackets. It encourages students to think of different ways in which an expression can be factorised.<br /> I print the two slides of the PPT back to back. Students fill in as many answers as they can in the time given (5-10 mins), so weaker students feel less pressure than they would starting at question 1 from a text book and then working through the questions in order. It can be done individually or in pairs.<br /> When time is up, I get students to come and volunteer their answers on the board, after which we discuss how to ensure that an expression is fully factorised. <br />