Every Friday I do literacy in mathematics. This is this weeks theme.

This is a sneak preview for a resource available online for £2.50. The resource includes worked examples, fluency, reasoning questions, error analysis and problem solving. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dividing-decimals-11709134

Just a small resource highlighting the properties of prime numbers and multiplication. To make it easier you could input a few numbers in the circles and ask the pupil to complete the others.

Just a small group of differentiated questions I created for my year 7 class.

This resource is another one I will use in my year 7 lessons, and is differentiated for the lesson. It is based on highest common factor.

This resource is designed to check students understanding with negative numbers. Some of the answers are incorrect and the students need to find where they are. Once they find them, they need to write why they think it is incorrect and how they would fix it.

A starter for introducing surds but could be applied to any topic. The idea is that you put on the board a complicated equation/shape etc, and get the students curious. You can ask them what they already know and what they want to know. You can then plan your lessons around their answers.

This is designed to test pupils knowledge of words associated with a particular topic, for this I have used number properties. This could be adapted to other topics and used as an end of unit plenary.

This resource takes six articles from the Guardian newspaper which involve percentages. The student is asked to match the percentage to the decimal equivalent.

This resource asks students to investigate the relationship between odd and even numbers when multiplying together.

A resource showing one way of how to calculate the highest common factor between two numbers.

For Wednesday’s problem we merge together area, perimeter with mode and median. The student has to calculate the mode and median of cards containing shapes. Students are then given the mode and median of a group of cards and the student has to identify which cards are chosen. Plenty of practise throughout the worksheet of area and perimeter. This can be used as a worksheet, a homework sheet, a recap lesson. Students could extend this further by creating their own shapes and calculating area and perimeter, or creating questions to ask a partner. This resource can be found for free on TES until Friday 10th August. Feedback Welcome!

Today’s resource looks at cards with calculations on. Students are then asked to calculate the probability of choosing a randomly selected card and it having a certain property. What I really like about this resource is it means students can practise their number calculations with BIDMAS, test them on their understanding of types of numbers, all whilst answering a probability question. This would be a good resource for a year 7 class and encompasses fluency reasoning and problem solving. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.

Students are asked to calculate the answers and sum together. There is a check in point to check that they are on the right track. To make it more difficult you could adapt it by the checkpoint but getting the student to sum the total themselves

This is a sneak preview resource for a revision session. Students are asked to calculate the answers and sum together. There is a check in point to check that they are on the right track. To make it more difficult you could adapt it by the checkpoint but getting the student to sum the total themselves

Today’s resource combines knowledge of types of number with Ratio and Proportion. A nice review activity after finishing ratio and proportion with year 7/8 class. There is a mixture of fluency, reasoning and problem solving with students having to explain if a statement is correct. The last question is a lovely problem solving question where students are given ratios and they have to identify the numbers. This is available for FREE on TES until Friday 24th August.

Today’s resource looks at using formulae with fractions and percentages. Students are given some information and the formula and they have to answer calculations involving fractions and percentages. A small worksheet that could be given as a homework or a plenary of a lesson. This is available from TES for free until Friday 17th August. Thanks

Keeping with the probability theme this resources concentrates on percentages, finding a percentage of an amount, increasing and decreasing percentages. There is also a hint of fractions and types of number. Plenty of problem solving to keep them busy with question 4 and reasoning with question 5. This was put together with a year 7 class in mind, but could be easily adapted to add more challenge or support. For support I would change the questions so that they would say show that the probability of something happening is this. The percentages could be changed to easier or harder depending on the ability of the group. The resource is available on TES for free until Monday 20th August.

A quick post today as it is GCSE results, good luck to those at school and those I tutor. Today’s resource concentrates on Ratio, Proportion and FDP calculations with reasoning and problem solving. This can be broken up to use as plenaries at the end of a lesson or revision for assessments. This will be available on TES until Monday 27th August.

Today’s resource can be used in conjunction with the resource given yesterday, (Area, Perimeter with Median and Mode). Students are asked to calculate the area and perimeter alongside calculating the mean and range and there is also problem solving within the questions. Give it a go! This can be found on TES for free until 10th August. Feedback is welcome!