Two resources to help with understanding of surface area of a prism. 1. Breaks down the shapes into their respective faces. 2. An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the two GCSE questions. Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.

A resource of differentiated functional questions on the area of a trapezium. Questions taken from other sources gratefully and then formatted.

An activity for a bottom set to help them understand how frequency tables are created.

A collection of resources for a bottom set for constructing triangles and bisecting angles and lines. Adjusted to suit lower sets.

A couple of resources developed to encourage an understanding of trigonometry as an introduction to the topic. Students draw accurate right-angle triangles with a 30 degree angle and measure the height, base and hypotenuse. They repeat this with other dimensions, and potentially different angles. They are then looking for a pattern between the sides. The second resource encourages them to begin using the ratio of the sides to find missing sides.

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.

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!

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!

An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the two GCSE questions. Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.

Slides for modeling and for practice with differentiated questions.

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

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 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 worksheet for practising expanding brackets.