LittleStreams was set up in 2014 by educators and graphic designers Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen and Samuel Lovegrove. We make high quality, affordable resources for teachers and tutors, including worksheets, games, task cards and revision flash cards.
LittleStreams was set up in 2014 by educators and graphic designers Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen and Samuel Lovegrove. We make high quality, affordable resources for teachers and tutors, including worksheets, games, task cards and revision flash cards.
UPDATED for 2022:
Redesign of cards to make them easier to use
This card game is a fantastic way to test adding and subtracting with negative numbers. The competitive nature of this game allows students to become confident in the addition and subtraction of negative numbers while also being fun and competitive.
Players are dealt a certain number of cards. A base card is then turned over, and players choose a card from their hand which is closest in value to the given card. Play continues for a set number of rounds, and the player with the most points at the end wins.
This pack includes 54 cards with negative integer questions. Included in the pack is an answer key for all cards and gameplay rules. The cards are also printed with easy-cut guides to make preparation fast and simple.
This is included in Card Game Bundle 1
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This card game is a simple game of match-up. It contains quadrilateral cards and properties cards. 3 quadrilateral shapes are placed onto the table, and players take turns to place their properties down against them. The first to get rid of all their cards wins.
You can also play this as a matching activity rather than as the rules we created. All properties cards can be matched to the quadrilateral cards. Quadrilaterals included are Square, Rectangle, Parallelogram, Rhombus, Trapezium/Trapeziod and Kite.
The game is easily prepared thanks to easy-cut guides. A full set of rules is included and a cheat sheet just in case players get stuck.
Available as Card Game Bundle 4
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This is a quickfire and competitive card game that makes triangle construction fun and enjoyable. It helps to develop skills in being able to construct triangles with three levels of difficulty; given two sides and an angle, two angles and a side, and three lengths. You will need a ruler and protractor for each player.
Break your class into teams, or have each member of the class compete. Turn over a card and students must construct that triangle. First player to complete an accurate construction wins. Each difficulty of card is a different colour, so you can easily differentiate the cards.
Answer sheet for players, and an answer key is provided. Players will need a pencil, protractor, metric ruler and compass for the hard cards.
This game is part of a Bundle at a discount price.
This 26-page pack of differentiated worksheets is creatively put together to make the activities interesting and visually engaging.
- Identification of acute, obtuse, reflex and right angles.
- Measuring angle, with three levels of difficulty.
- Pictures on which students measure angles, encourages students to measure angles that don't necessarily have a horizontal base.
- Summary test, followed by a confidence checklist sheet.
- All answer keys are included where relevant.
- Despite being in colour, all worksheets have been tested to print great in black and white.
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This pack contains over 100 pages of activities and printables on the subject of telling the time.
• Hour, Half Hour and Quarters Clock Faces Worksheets/Printables
• Five and Minute Intervals Clock Faces Worksheets/Printables
• Telling the Time without a Clock Face
• Word Problems, Times tables and Scenarios
• Graphically Aided Clocks and Roman Numerals
• Plus Additional Extra Blank Worksheets and Confidence Checklist (Not Available For Purchase Separately)
Resources for clock reading can sometimes take a lot of time, so we have made sure that our packs contain as many different variants of activities as possible. We have also made sure that each of out pages are constructed to the highest quality. For example, we have made sure that the hour hands on our analog clock reading activities are in the precise correct position in relation to the minute hand. This is a simple but important element for ensuring our time telling resources are completely accurate and reliable.
The worksheet activities are differentiated up to four levels; hour and half hour; quarter past and quarter to; five minute intervals and minute intervals.
This pack comes with a variety of analog clock faces for use in one-to-one tuition. Each are designed to help students who struggle to read a clock in different ways. Each clock is differentiated to addresses a specific learning misconception.
At the end of the pack, we have included two confidence checklists for students to complete. One with, and one without checkboxes for knowledge that pertains to 24 hour time. This will enable a teacher or tutor to address areas where the student might not feel so confident in their learning.
These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise prime factors of numbers, including written in indices/exponential form. There are two possible starting points, so differentiation is built into the activity.
Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer. Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder.
Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:
-Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.
-Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the rst students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.
- Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.
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These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise rules of indices. There are two possible starting points, so differentiation is built into the activity. It includes simplification of multiplying and dividing indices, evaluating fractional indices and working with negative indices.
Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer. Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder.
This is the UK version, using the term indices. For the US version that uses the terminology exponents, click here.
Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:
-Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.
-Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the rst students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.
-Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.
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This pack contains a set of 24 questions on Mixed Math Word Problems, including Algebra, Geometry, Number and Statistics subject areas. They are designed completely from scratch with simplicity, professionalism and concentration in mind. These questions are designed to be little maths puzzles that explore some deeper thoughts of numbers etc.
Including a total of 96 task cards, this pack consists of 24 unique questions which have been differentiated in four ways. The easiest questions are Red, followed by Yellow, then Green and finally Challenge.
What makes this pack so unique is that is consists of questions from a mixture of topics within mathematics, making it a great exploration task or starter to a lesson.
Full answers are included, as is a student answer sheet for them to record their answers.
These also make great starter questions, and offer opportunities for classroom discussions.
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These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise converting recurring decimals as fractions from simple ones such as 0.999 (recurring) through to more complicated ones such as 0.7125252525 (recurring). There are two possible starting cards offering some level of differentiation.
Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer. Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder. Students should be expected to not use a calculator.
Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:
Have students race to connect the cards.
Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.
Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the first students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.
Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.
For an advanced start, begin on page two of the record sheet (the first card number is given).
This is available as part of a bundle with other Fraction and Percentage Follow Me Cards, available here.
This activity offers a different way to teach tally and pie charts. Students choose 20 fruit cards from the fruit deck (or any amount you choose from the 45 cards if you wish to make things more challenging). We recommend that 20 cards offers the most interesting collection to work with, while also being a factor of 360.
Students collect the data of their chosen cards and write it on the tally sheet. On the same sheet is a column for working out the number of degrees needed for constructing the pie chart. Two pie chart sheets are included, one with the key in colour, and one with the key ready for colouring.
Alternatively, get students to construct the pie chart from scratch in their books or a separate piece of paper.
The nature of this activity means that each student should, in theory, produce their own pie chart, unique from other students in the class.
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This pack is filled with worksheet activities covering combining like terms, expand and factorise expressions and substitution. All worksheets are differentiated to three levels, offering supported worksheets, as well as worksheets which challenge the most able students. Answer sheets are also included for all worksheets.
Term Trees introduce students to like terms, the essential knowledge needed to successfully combine like terms. Combing Terms Pyramid then puts this knowledge into practice. Geometry in Algebra goes one step further, and applies combining terms knoeledge to geometry scenarios.
The final combining like terms worksheet is a fun activity; a crossword. Students collect terms on a worksheet, and then put their answers in the crossword sheet. Each differentiated worksheet has the same questions, but to make things easier for some students, we have included some terms in spaces to give a clue. This is also great for self checking answers.
The next two worksheets focus on expanding and factorising, and is a standard worksheet with questions on both expanding brackets and factorising terms with one set of brackets (linear equations). For the challenging questions, this includes simple quadratics with one bracket; ie x(x+2). The second of these worksheets is an unusual activity combining area of shapes as a form of setting up equations to then factorise.
The final two worksheets looks at substitution. The first consists of a grid; the rows gives the value of x and y, and the columns give the expression to be substituted. The second is a collection of questions about substitution which includes an applied question to do with the temperature conversion equation and knowledge of commutative expressions.
All the worksheets in this pack focus on the essential manipuation skills of algebra needed to work with algebra effectively.
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These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise combining like terms in algebra. Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer. Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder.
Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:
-Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.
-Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the first students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.
- Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.
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This pack is filled with worksheets designed to introduce students to fractions and understanding the relationship between different fractions. It also covers decimals, asking students to put decimals in order of size. Each worksheet is differentiated 3 ways. There are two files: the worksheet files and the teachers file that includes the solutions.
It contains the following worksheets:
Worksheet 1 Equal Share
Worksheet 2 Identifying Fractions
Worksheet 3 Shading Fractions
Worksheet 4 Word Link
Worksheet 5 Letters
Worksheet 6 Fraction and Decimal Number Lines
Worksheet 7 Word Problems
Worksheet 8 Comparing Fractions
Worksheet 9 Comparing Decimals
Worksheet 10 Stepping Stones
The first worksheet takes a look at what is meant by breaking shapes into equal sizes, and builds understanding of what fractions are. The second worksheet is about stating the fraction of the shape or group of objects that are shaded. The first differentiation gives clues for the first few questions, level two just gives an example, and level three asks students to simplify where possible. The third worksheet is a continuation of the second, this time asking students to shade the given fraction on the shape or group of objects.
The fourth worksheet has students connect a written fraction to its shaded shape form. When these lines are connected, a name of a famous mathematician is discovered. For the level 1 differentiation, some answers are given to get them started. The fifth worksheet looks at letters and asks students to find what fraction of certain letters are vowels or are made up of words. It also consists of some simple adding decimals.
Worksheet six consists of number lines. Students are asked to put fractions and decimals in the correct places on the number lines. They are also asked to identify where 1 is on the number line, given the position of a given fraction. Differentiations 2 and 3 explore top heavy fractions.
Worksheet seven asks simple fraction word problems. Worksheet eight builds on this by comparing the sizes of fractions directly. Differentiation 1 includes images of fractions as well as the written form to help students visualise the solution. The ninth worksheet is a continuation of worksheet eight, but covering decimals. The tenth and final worksheet also asks students to compare fractions to find the largest, but in a more fun way. The worksheet consists of pictures of stones in a pond, and students must choose the largest fraction in each column to step on to get across the pond.
This pack is available as part of our Introducing Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Bundle available here.
This extensive bundle includes 5 packs on fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios. Each pack contains 10 individual worksheets all differentiated 3 ways. Giving a total of 50 unique activities and 150 worksheets. An answer key is also included, as a separate file, meaning you can email the worksheets out to your students.
It includes the following packs:
Introducing Fractions and Decimals
Equivalent Fractions and Percentages
Fraction and Decimal Sums
Fraction and Percentages of Amounts
Introducing Ratio
A bonus topic test and confidence checklist for free with the bundle.
Worksheet activities includes mazes, word problems, shading, word links, solve the clue, and linking questions.
The first pack introduces students to the concept of fractions and decimals. It covers topics including finding and shading fractions of circles as well as objects, placing fractions and decimals on a number line and comparing the sizes of fractions and decimals.
The second pack covers equivalent fractions and percentages. It introduces equivalent fractions using the bar model and fraction circles, converting between decimals and percentages, writing tenths as decimals, converting common fractions to decimals and percentages, and word problems involving equivalent fractions.
The third pack covers adding fractions and decimals. It begins with adding fractions where the denominators are the same and where one denominator is a multiple of the other. It also includes word problems involving both decimals and percentages.
The forth pack includes finding fractions and percentages of amounts. It begins by looking at unit fractions, then introducing the concept of finding, for example, 3/5 of 40. It also covers finding 10%, 50%, 25%, 20% and 5% of a number. Word questions are also included.
The fifth pack introduces ratios. It covers writing ratios of given objects, sharing an amount in a given ratio, converting between ratio and fractions and word problems involving ratio and proportions.
Included is a bonus final test covering all the topics in the pack and a confidence checklist.
18 shapes are included in this matching activity, asking students to match a 3D shape to its name, net and properties. Two versions are included; one where the 3D shapes are solid, and another where the 3D shapes are wire frames so students can see the number of edges etc; a good option for using less ink when printing.
Available as part of Matching Activity Bundle One .
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90 Flash Cards for 3D shapes, covering recognising the mathematical names of shapes as well as counting the number of faces, vertices and edges on given shapes. Includes standard 3D shapes such as cuboids and cylinders, as well as more advanced shapes to stretch more able students, such as a regular pentagonal prism and a conical frustum. Includes solid filled shapes and wire frame shapes.
Printable pack includes files made for single-sided and double-sided printers.
This is available as part of our flash card bundle, available here.
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This pack contains 5 card game for the price of 3. Get our bundle at a 40% discount compared to buying the games individually. Learning about Factors and Multiples, addition and subtraction, number bonds and times tables.
The pack contains the following games:
• Factors Frenzy | Card Game for learning Factors & Multiples
• Number Bonds and Sums | Competitive Card Game for Addition and Number Bonds
• Addition Battle | Card Game to build skills in addition and number bonds
• Subtraction Battle | Card game to build skills in subtraction and number bonds
• Times Tables | Card Game for Times Tables and Multiples
A Skills Poster to help students learn how to use a Protractor, and a teacher's guide common misconceptions of angles.
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This free download is brought to you in collaboration with Number Loving and it combines two fully differentiated resources covering drawing, reading and interpretation of pie charts.
The first is a pack of six worksheets by LittleStreams the first four are of increasing difficulty drawing pie charts from tables and another two worksheets of increasingly difficulty drawing pie charts from bar charts. Solutions are provided for each worksheet. The second pack in this free download is a treasure hunt on reading and interpreting pie charts, it is differientated to three levels were the green (hardest) level is suitable for GCSE Higher. Each level consists of ten questions. Again the solutions are provided for teacher reference.
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