Algebra. Factorising Quadratic Equations. Christmas Challenge. FREE SAMPLE Christmas X-Factorising. What is the mystery song? A fun festive challenge to brighten up quadratic equation lessons in the run up to Christmas. Students need to factorise a list of quadratic equations in order to find potential solutions for x. Factorised quadratic equations include… (x+)( x+) (x+) (x-) (x-)( x-) Possible solutions for X correspond to letters on a grid provided. Students need to gather these letters and then rearrange to reveal the mystery Christmas song. This is a PowerPoint presentation so the slides can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed for students. The free sample includes the title page, instructions, one challenge slide and one corresponding answer slide. The song included in the free sample is Last Christmas. The full set includes a title page, instructions, grid, 10 challenge slides and 10 corresponding answer slides. The full set of songs includes… Last Christmas Let it Snow Santa Baby One More Sleep Walking in the Air Frosty the Snowman Jingle Bell Rock White Christmas Blue Christmas Mary’s Boy Child

ALGEBRA. Getting into Algebra. 2. Creating Algebraic Equations to Solve. One Step. 20 Questions with Animated Step-by-Step Solutions. Questions cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The resource is intended as an introduction to algebraic thinking. Each question has… The question with work-pad (for print or board) An animated step-by-step walk-through

Christmas Shape. Transformations. Enlargements. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. How big does the tree grow? Students are presented with a green triangle on a grid and asked to enlarge it. They are presented with a centre of enlargement and a scale factor. They need to use these to perform the task correctly. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, worked example, one blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set, which is available for download separately, contains a title page, worked example, 10 blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

Christmas Shape. Transformations. Reflections. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. The focus of this activity is the Christmas star and how it is reflected through both the x axis and the y axis. Students are presented with the star on a grid. They are told to reflect it through both the x axis and the y axis e.g. when x=2 and y=6 This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, worked example, one blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set, which is available for download separately, contains a title page, worked example, 10 blank challenge slides and corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

Christmas Shape. Transformations. Translations. Vectors. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. The focus of this activity is the Christmas star and how it moves through the midnight sky. Students are presented with a star on a grid and a vector of translation. Their task is to use the vector of translation to draw the star in it’s new position. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, worked example, one blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set, which is available for download separately, contains a title page, worked example, 10 blank challenge slides and corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

ALGEBRA. Getting into Algebra. 1. Finding the Value of Symbols. One Step. 20 Questions with Animated Step-by-Step Solutions. Questions cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The resource is intended as an introduction to algebraic thinking. Each question has… The question with work-pad (for print or board) An animated step-by-step walk-through

ALGEBRA. Getting into Algebra. 3. Finding the Value of Symbols. Two Steps. 20 Questions with Animated Step-by-Step Solutions. Questions cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The resource is intended as an introduction to algebraic thinking. Each question has… The question with work-pad (for print or board) An animated step-by-step walk-through

ALGEBRA. Getting into Algebra. 4. Creating Algebraic Equations to Solve. Two Steps. 20 Questions with Animated Step-by-Step Solutions. Questions cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The resource is intended as an introduction to algebraic thinking. Each question has… The question with work-pad (for print or board) An animated step-by-step walk-through

Christmas Algebra. Simplifying Expressions. Fractions. Indices. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun festive challenge. Students are presented with a rather complicated-looking algebraic fraction. Simplifying the fraction by cancelling out the indices reveals a series of letters that can be rearranged to spell out a word connected to Christmas. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, instructions (with worked example), a blank question slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set can be downloaded separately. The full set contains a title page, instructions (with worked example), 15 blank questions slides and 15 corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

Algebra. Creating and Expanding Double Brackets. Christmas Challenge. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. Students need produce two expressions for the area of the surface of my Christmas dinner table – one with brackets and one without. They are presented with two expressions, one for the length and one for the width of the table. To find the first expression (with brackets), they need to apply the formula for the area of a rectangle i.e. multiply length by width. These brackets can then be expanded to produce a second expression for the area of the table. This is a PowerPoint Presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, instructions, one blank challenge and one corresponding answer slide. A full set of 20 challenges is also available for download. The full set covers:- (x+)(x+) (x+)(x-) (x-)(x-) (nx+)(nx+) (nx+)(nx-) (nx-)(nx-)

Algebra. Simplifying Expressions. Addition and Subtraction. Christmas Edition. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. Students are presented with list of shopping items. The list has been written in a panic and is overly complicated. Students need to simplify the list -first by creating an algebraic expression and then as a simplified list. What you are downloading here is a free sample which contains a title page, instruction page, a blank challenge and corresponding answer slide. The full set, which is avaialable for download separately, contains a title page, instruction page, 20 blank challenge and corresponding answer slides. The full set covers:- Addition with two/three letter variables. Subtraction with two/three letter variables. Addition and subtraction with two/three letter variables. The free sample includes a challenge containing addition with two letter variables.

Christmas Ratio and Proportion. Spider Ratios. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. I buy a big tub of sweets every Christmas. I have been keeping tabs on the number of fudge and the number of toffee sweets in the tub over the last 6 years. I have recorded this as a ratio per year (6 in total). Students are given the total number of sweets in the tub and sweet ratios for the last 6 years. Students need to work out how many fudge and how many toffee were in the tub each year. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, worked example, one blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set, which is available for download separately, contains a title page, worked example, 10 blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

Algebra. Simultaneous Equations. Two Positives. Christmas Challenge. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. Students are presented with festive drinks orders and challenged to find the cost of the individual drinks. In order to find the cost, they need to covert the orders into simultaneous equations to solve. This is a PowerPoint presentation so can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed for students. What you are downloading here is the FREE SAMPLE which contains a title page, instructions, a blank challenge and corresponding answer slide. The full set, which is available for download separately, contains a title page, instructions, 15 blank challenges and corresponding answer slides. The full set covers:- 5 sets of equations that can be solved by simple subtraction. 5 sets of equations that require students to multiply one equation before subtracting. 5 sets of equations that require students to multiply both equations before subtracting.

Christmas Ratio and Proportion. Ratio Dividing. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. Everyone in my house gets sprouts on their Christmas dinner whether they like it or not. In the house, there is me, my husband and our daughter. Students are given a total number of sprouts and a ratio. This ratio tells students how the sprouts are shared out between us. Their task is to work out exactly how many sprouts we get each on our respective plates. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, worked example, a blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set of 10 challenges is available for download separately. This contains a title page, worked example, 10 blank challenge slides and 10 corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

Algebra. Solving Linear Equations with X on One Side. Christmas Challenge. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun festive challenge. Students are presented with a series of linear equations to solve and a blank table representing a mystery element from the Christmas Story/Nativity. Students have to solve the linear equations in order to find a series of values for X. Once students have all of their values, they need to convert them into letters and spaces using the grid provided. These letters, when rearranged, reveal the mystery element that fits into the table. Linear equations include one step and two step equations. They involve addition, subtraction and require students to work with negative numbers. The is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed off for students to complete. The free sample includes the title page, instructions, grid, one blank puzzle page and corresponding answer sheet. The mystery element is ‘Baby Jesus’ The full set includes includes all of the above plus:- Baby Jesus Mary and Joseph Virgin Birth Angel Gabriel King Herod Bethlehem Little Donkey Star of Wonder Shepherds Three Wise Men What you are downloading here is the FREE SAMPLE

Algebra. Trigonometry. Right Angled Triangles. Missing Angles. Christmas Challenge. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra/trigonometry lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun festive challenge. Students need to work out how many degrees the shepherds need to tilt their heads to see the Angel of the Lord. They are presented with two lengths and challenged to find angle X (the angle the shepherds need to tilt their heads to look at the angel). Students need to draw on their knowledge of trigonometry and are reminded of SOHCAHTOA to guide them. This is a PowerPoint presentation document so it can easily be displayed on the board and/or printed for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, instructions, 1 blank question slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set is available separately. This contains a title page, instructions, 10 blank question slides and corresponding answer slides.

Algebra. Simplifying Expressions. Basic Fractions. Letter in Numerator and Denominator. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. Students are presented with four algebraic fractions, each representing an ingredient for my icing mix. They need to simplify all of these fractions in order to work out the ingredient quantities - icing sugar, glycerine, egg whites and lemon juice. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed for students. What you downloading here is the free sample which includes the title page, instructions (with worked example), one blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set is also available for download separately. The full set includes the title page, instructions (with worked example), ten blank challenge slides and corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

Christmas Ratio and Proportion. Angle Ratio Dividing. Circles. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun little festive challenge. Students are provided with bird’s eye view of my local town centre. The image depicts a Christmas tree and hanging lights that come together at the tree’s star. The result is a circle with 3 angles. Students are presented with a diagram (not to scale but roughly representative) and a ratio for the angles in the circle. Students need to use their understanding of circles and the ratio provided in order to work out the angles. This is a PowerPoint presentation so it can be easily displayed on the board and/or printed out for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, worked example, a blank challenge slide and corresponding answer slide. The full set of 10 challenges is available for download separately. This contains a title page, worked example, 10 blank challenge slides and 10 corresponding answer slides. Thank you for looking.

VALENTINE’S DAY ALGEBRA. Simultaneous Equations. Free Sample. ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE… How much will one of these lovely flowers cost you? In this challenge, students need to work out the cost of one rose and the cost of one violet from a pair of simultaneous equations. Type One - Solve by Simple Subtraction Type Two - Solve by Subtraction After Multiplying One Equation Type Three - Solve by Subtraction After Multiplying Both Equations. This is a PowerPoint presentation so can be displayed easily on the board or printed for students to complete by hand. The Free Sample contains a title page, a worked example, one challenge slide per type and corresponding answer slides (complete with step-by-step working). The Full Set contains a title page, a worked example, ten challenge slides per type (3x10 so 30 challeges in total) and corresponding answer slides (complete with step-by-step working). What you are downloading here is the FREE SAMPLE. Thank you for looking.

Algebra. Trigonometry. Right Angled Triangles. Missing Sides. Christmas Challenge. FREE SAMPLE Brighten up algebra/trigonometry lessons in the run up to Christmas with this fun festive challenge. Students need to work out how far the Three Wise Men/Kings need to travel to reach Baby Jesus. They are presented with one length, one angle and challenged to find X (the distance between the Three Wise Men/Kings and Baby Jesus). Students need to draw on their knowledge of trigonometry and are reminded of SOHCAHTOA to guide them. This is a PowerPoint presentation document so it can easily be displayed on the board and/or printed for students. What you are downloading here is the free sample which contains a title page, instructions, a blank question slide and a corresponding answer slide. The full set is also available. This contains the free sample plus 9 additional challenges and corresponding answer pages.