A spoof test where children have to do silly things

Things are difficult with Covid-19 forcing everyone to study at home at the moment, so I have curated this collection of the best maths websites I could find to support parents. Everything is 100% free, including some YouTube videos, woprked example sites, worksheet generators and more. What’s more, everything is hyperlinked for ease of use. The book is split into primary and secondary sections to help parents. Please feel free to share it as widely as you like - there is no copyright so you may send it to all the parents at your school.

Just a bit of fun for all ages! Celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee with this maths quiz, where all the answers are 70 (sort of!)

This cut-out-and-stick activity helps children visualise equivalents. In pairs, give them a numberline (I use strips of flipchart paper) and mark it from zero to 1. Then simply cut out and place the forty pieces on the numberline in the correct places. Encourage discussions about which pieces point to the same spot, and why. There are two pages - one colour and one B+W to keep budget holders happy!

Do you want to help your pupils learn about the relationships between fractions, decimal fractions and percentages? Do they struggle to associate these multiple representations with each other, or to convert between them with confidence? If so, this printable PDF might be a great resource to help them piece together, literally, these concepts. Each number from zero to 1 (going up in hundredths) is represented here in four different ways). There are many ways to use these – perhaps as a number line, a matching game or simply practice at spotting equivalent amounts. The cleverly colour-coded images will help children see why 0.39 is 3 tenths and 9 hundredths, and why the 3 is worth much more than the 9. Altogether you get 400 separate images, so there is plenty of variety built in – every possible number between zero and 1 which has up to two decimal places is shown in four different ways. The very low price includes a whole-school site license too, so this works out at a few pence per pupil. Laminate the cards and they should last years – and if they don’t, just print them out again!

The fourth arm of the Fluency Project, and the one that has taken longest to get absolutely right. Beautifully and painstakingly designed, this PDF set of six A3 mats pick out key curriculum knowledge from Years 1 to 6. Print them out, laminate them, and allow children to have them on desks. (Don’t forget to turn them face down for tests!) The mats are intended to make children more independent, as they will soon learn to search the mats for support, and to remind themselves of the maths they might need in any given situation. What’s more, to ensure that everyone can benefit from this no matter what their budget, this site license includes permission to make a mat for every child in your school - for ever! You never have to pay for these again - when they eventually wear out, just print another set from the PDF! UPDATE: (25/2/2021) Thanks to a brilliant suggestion from teacher Jo Leftley, there is now a second set of mats. These are identical to the first set, save for the fact that they do not mention Year groups. This means that you can use a more basic mat where appropriate without risking upsetting a child, since instead of Y1, Y2, etc.  it says Mat A, Mat B, and so on. And the cost of this new set? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! That’s right - there is no catch; it will automatically be added to your order when you receive your download email.

This tables practice book was born from a realisation that the children in my own school had lost a lot of mathematical fluency; times tables really help. Fluent recall of tables gives children a massive advantage in maths, and yet the way in which they learn them can be very tedious. But not any more! This new e-book is unlike anything else currently available - it works by encouraging children to focus on just three tables, then four, five, and so on. There is a challenge on every page, which will help them cement the key relationship between multiplication and division, which so often gets forgotten. As children progress through the pages, completing grids & solving puzzles, their confidence will soar, as they see themselves becoming more fluent. The site-licence edition means you are free to make copies for every teacher in your school. (For just a single class or year-group, please visit my website by searching ‘AndrewJeffrey Maths’.)