An activity to encourage students to think about how expanding brackets works and to prepare them to start factorising. Differentiated into different difficulties.

An activity I enjoy doing with all classes. Students need to identify and rectify what is incorrect in the answers. Print off copies for individuals or pairs and put on the board for a discussion.

A complete lesson I taught on the quadratic formula.

A collection of differentiated worksheet to help students get to grips with solving linear equations. Encourages students to use a mental method of inverse operations and using function machines. Each activity is differentiated for different start points. Ideal for lower sets.

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 few resources designed to help students new to the concept of forming an equation.

Print it on colourful A3 paper, laminate it, and get it up on the board to start celebrating mistakes and the learning that they yield!! I found this a useful way of encouraging students to engage proactively with their mistakes and seeing them as a means of growing their brains. Particularly in mathematics where students were often paralysed by fear of mistakes. You can even get students to come up and write their mistakes on the board, write mistakes with their corrections, and use them in lessons as a tool for recapping previous learning.

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.

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 ideas for creative activities at home! They are sourced from our own experiences being confined in a small apartment in Paris, so they may not be perfect for everyone, but they have helped us get through the confinement and have added some excitement to the days. Enjoy, and feel free to adapt and adjust as you see fit!

A couple of resources I adapted for working with lower sets to introduce sequences. Good for basic numeracy practice too.

A collection of resources I used for teaching different strands of MMMR to a bottom set.

A collection of resources used with lower sets to support understanding of alternate and corresponding angles.

A couple of differentiated activities encouraging students to get to grips with how inequality signs work.

An adapted resource for a bottom set to support them with missing angles.

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

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

A worksheet for practising expanding brackets.

Three activities for students struggling with understanding the meaning of algebraic notation. The second one involves students matching answers and questions.