Here is a range of short activities that would typically serve as an interesting lesson starter to get students thinking about maths in different ways! They are a mixture of puzzles and challenges with features of mathematic that students can explore. They serve as excellent games or short investigations for students at home, and can be easily adapted further. I am sorry the overall layout is not so nice. Enjoy!!

Here are some interesting challenges for students to explore in maths. They are split by topics, with different challenges to be explored in each of these areas. They should keep students intrigued and challenged! I have had these for a long time and believe they were created at Bow School where I inherited them - so my credit to them! Some have been collated from the excellent NRICH too.

There are three booklets of key maths content. These were quickly put together by condensing other resources I have accumulated over the years - so they are not perfect! I hope to add answers and other options very soon.

I wanted to bring my maths classroom closer to the real world, and specifically the problems and changes that we face. I wanted a resource that would raise awareness of important issues in society, invite discussion in a maths classroom, and spur action. So these resources place key ratio skills in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with ratios, interpreting ratios, and 1:n. ** It provides an opportunity to practice problem solving in new contexts, and highlights the power that maths has to quantify issues and help address them. The numbers and statistics are all very close to the real numbers, often rounded to make it easier to work with in a classroom. Feel free to add your own and adjust and help take maths into the world and its challenges!

I wanted to bring my maths classroom closer to the real world, and specifically the problems and changes that we face. I wanted a resource that would raise awareness of important issues in society, invite discussion in a maths classroom, and spur action. So these resources place key skills of working with averages in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with mean, mode, median, and interpretations of these. ** It provides an opportunity to practice problem solving in new contexts, and highlights the power that maths has to quantify issues and help address them. The numbers and statistics are all very close to the real numbers, often rounded to make it easier to work with in a classroom. Feel free to add your own and adjust and help take maths into the world and its challenges!

I wanted to bring my maths classroom closer to the real world, and specifically the problems and changes that we face. I wanted a resource that would raise awareness of important issues in society, invite discussion in a maths classroom, and spur action. So these resources place key fraction skills in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with fraction change and fractions of amounts. ** It provides an opportunity to practice problem solving in new contexts, and highlights the power that maths has to quantify issues and help address them. The numbers and statistics are all very close to the real numbers, often rounded to make it easier to work with in a classroom. Feel free to add your own and adjust and help take maths into the world and its challenges!

I wanted to bring my maths classroom closer to the real world, and specifically the problems and changes that we face. I wanted a resource that would raise awareness of important issues in society, invite discussion in a maths classroom, and spur action. So these resources place key percentages skills in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with percentage change, percentage increase, and percentages of amounts. ** It provides an opportunity to practice problem solving in new contexts, and highlights the power that maths has to quantify issues and help address them. The numbers and statistics are all very close to the real numbers, often rounded to make it easier to work with in a classroom. Feel free to add your own and adjust and help take maths into the world and its challenges!

A whole notebook lesson. Includes starter, space for modelling, and practise questions for the class. Adjust the slides as fits your class.

A whole notebook lesson ready to go. Includes starter, spaces for modelling to the whole class and then questions with answers for them to practice. Builds up to questions in context too.

Slides for factorising expressions, for factorising quadratics and for solving quadratics. Modeling questions and then practice questions all differentiated. Adjust as fits your lesson. Maybe a game at the end for so much work!

Lesson slides with modeling and practice differentiated questions. Edit and adjust as suits your lesson.

Slides for modeling and for practice with differentiated questions.

A worksheet of questions I put together to try to help students prepare for the style of questions common on the new GCSE.

A couple of worksheets I put together to try to train students in the style of questions on ratio common in the new GCSE.

A couple of worksheets to help students develop their skills for solving simultaneous equations algebraically.

A summary of GCSE Factorising questions. Students need to identify the mistakes and correct them. Can be done individually or in pairs, and then discussed as a class.

A collection of resources designed to help build up knowledge of box plots steadily.

A collection of worksheets I put together from several sources of questions to steadily develop students’ understanding of Pythagoras’ Theorem.

A collection of worksheets I cobbled together and formatted from different sources for teaching the volume of cones, pyramids, cylinders and spheres.

A worksheet cobbled together for substituting into formula. Questions taken from CIMT and formatted to cater for needs of the class. Please note that this only focuses on substituting, not rearranging, even when the questions get harder.