Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!). Includes: Christmas tree (moderately easy) Bauble (medium) Candy cane (easy) Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard) Geometric christmas stocking (easy) Elf (Hard) Santas head (medium) present (easy) For each shape there is the following types of sheets: An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4 A big template which are on their own A4 page Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly. The geometric Christmas stocking is available as a free product here. Click here for more Christmas maths resources

These self-checking, no-prep printable maze worksheets will give KS3 students a fun way to practise Solving One Step Equations (with positive x’s). These maths mazes can be used for class work, warm-ups, additional practise, homework or you can give them to early finishers. Included: ★3 mazes (labelled at the bottom left) ★Answer Key for each maze Features: ★Easy to use ★Self-checking ★At least 9 questions for students to answer ★Engaging ★Mark at a glance ★Full solutions This is a more engaging way of reviewing solving equations. It is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. =±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=± Other resources you might like Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity - Multiplying and Dividing Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity - Adding and Subtracting Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity

This Halloween maths transformations activity will give students lots of practice at different types of transformations using a halloween theme! Skills include – Translations using vectors, rotations, reflections in a y= or x= line and enlargements (fractional and positive). Help your students to engage with transformations this seasonal Halloween activity! ~Included: ☠Howling wolf ☠ Cat ☠ Zombie ☠ witches hat ☠Bat All answers are included. If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

This Halloween maths codebreaker uses skills learnt in ordering decimals, substutition, length conversions and coordiantes to reveal halloween jokes. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practise ordering decimals, substitution, metric length conversions and coordinates in all 4 quadrants. Each skill has a different sheet, so there are 4 total worksheets all with awesome Halloween clip art and answers included. The skills included here are normally covered in year 7 but could be used for any year group as a fun consolidation. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a halloween joke. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses) Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each) See here for a FREE Halloween codebreaker that uses multiplcation skills. If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

Use the order of operations (BIDMAS) to reveal a secret maths joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice the order of operations. This product contains 3 different levels of difficulty: order of operations with multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting - BIDMAS with brackets and the 4 operations - BIDMAS including indices. This will keep students really busy and help them to check their own working as they go. This is perfect for consolidation on the order of operations if you don’t want to use a traditional worksheet. Each difficulty is colour coded (blue =easy, gold = medium, red = hard). All the answers are included. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses) Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each) See here for other BIDMAS resources See here for other code breakers.

This Easter maths codebreaker gives students lots of practice at their times tables which helps them to reveal a groan worthy Easter Joke. A fun maths starter or reward for early finishers in the run up to Easter. UPDATED - swapped the m and t over. Similar to my Halloween codebreaker freebie which is a “TES PICKS” resource. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal an Easter joke, fun Easter clip art pictures included. If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.

This Christmas/Holiday maths one step equations maze will give students practice with their solving equations skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. Great for a starter or early finishers near Christmas. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate solving equations without using a traditional worksheet. The maze uses positive values of x only. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time, they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This freebie includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Holiday clipart. Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Christmas themed activities.

This Halloween maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables, a great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween. Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal a halloween picture. This particular picture reveals a pumpkin. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art border included that students can also colour in. Want more halloween multiplication activities? Click here for multiplcation mazes. Click here for multiplication treasure hunts. Click here for Halloween times tables bingo If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

Halloween maths - tessellations. Halloween themed tessellation activity for students to complete as homework or classwork. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Halloween. Includes: A ghost (easy) A bat (med) A witches hat (really hard) A spider (easy) A skull (med) A cat (hard) For each shape there is the following types of sheets: An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off An A4 landscape sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 landscape sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off A small template which is approx 1/6 of A4 A big template which are on their own A4 page Examples of how to tessellate the shape The skull is available as a free product here.

This Halloween maths adding and subtracting negative numbers maze will give students lots of practise adding and subtracting up to 3 negative numbers. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Great for a starter/plentary or early finishers near Halloween. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate adding and subtracting negative numbers without using a traditional worksheet. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This product includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Halloween clip art. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Halloween maths activities.

A lesson on translations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skills include translating a shape when given worded instructions, translating a shape using vectors and describing the transformation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Translate given shapes on a square grid/coordinate grid Gold:Use vector notation for translations Red:Describe fully a translation This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach translations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) [Free Translations treasure hunt available here](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/translations-treasure-hunt-11809584 Additional translations worksheets available here

This negative numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising multiplying and dividing with negative numbers. Skills include multiplying with numbers between -12 and 12 and dividing with numbers that are multiples of -12 to 12. Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This negative numbers maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more negative numbers activities, including mazes and worksheets.

A treasure hunt for students to complete in class. Answers and student record sheet included. They have to describe the following types of transformations: -enlargements -rotations -reflections -translations

A lesson on reflections for use in a secondary transformations unit(whoe unit available here). Power point and work booklet for teaching reflections are included. Skills covered are reflecting a shape in a line on a square grid, reflecting a shape across a straight line on a coordinate grid, describing the reflection. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Reflect given shapes on a grid. Gold:Reflect given shapes on a coordinate grid using a line such as x = 2 Red:Describe fully a reflection. This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach reflections, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) FREE reflections differentiated worksheet available here

This Easter maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Easter, and better still they are actually doing work! Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal an Easter picture. This particular picture reveals a chick popping out of an egg. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Want more Easter multiplication activities? Click here for a multiplication codebreaker. If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.

These Halloween maths laws of indices mazes will give students lots of practise of simplifying indices that have been multiplied, divided or have brackets. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Great for a starter/plentary or early finishers near Halloween. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate laws of indices without using a traditional worksheet. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This product includes 2 unique mazes with solutions and some great Halloween clip art. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Halloween maths activities.

Differentiated worksheets on Enlargements for students to complete in class. Skills include positive enlargements, negative enlargements and fractional enlargements all colour coded for difficulty. This is most suitable for Challenging KS3 students and Higher Tier GCSE. I also have a one suitable for KS3 and Foundation tier which only includes positive and fractional scale factors (The questions are different on each version so if you buy both products there are no duplicates). In this product 4 levels of difficulty have been included: Blue (easy) -Enlarge an object by an integer scale factor from a centre of enlargement Gold (medium) -Enlarge an object by a fractional scale factor from a centre of enlargement. Red (hard) -Enlarge and object by a negative scale factor from a centre of enlargement Purple (challenging) Describe fully an enlargement; work out a scale factor and centre of enlargement. Updated - fixed a couple of wrong answers. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here

Differentiated worksheet on rotations, perfect for use in a transformations unit. Skills include: rotating a shape on a square grid, rotating a shape on a co-ordinate grid and describing the rotation. Fully differentiated by colour - 3 levels of difficulty have been included: • Blue (easy) - rotating a shape on a square grid •Gold (medium) - rotating a shape on a coordinate grid •Red (harder) - describing the transformation All answers included. Updated - Fixed question 3 as it was rotating off the grid. Fixed a couple of typos and one of the answers. Fonts updated and embedded. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here If you need a rotations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here

A lesson on rotations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skils covered are rotating a shape around a given point on a square grid, rotating a shape about a set of coordinates and describing the rotation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder) This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach rotations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)

Adding and subtracting negative numbers mazes. 8 mazes with full solutions are included, great for use in a lesson on negative numbers when you don’t want to use traditional worksheets. Skills include positive subtract positive, negative subtract positive, negative add positive, negative add negative, subtracting a negative and a mixture. This is a fun way for students to consolidate adding and subtracting negative numbers. This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. Included in this product: 1 x positive subtract positive maze 1 x negative subtract positive maze 1 x negative add positive maze 1 x negative add negative maze 1 x subtracting a negative maze 3 x mixtures of the above mazes Recommended uses for this activity ★a revison tool for students who have complete a unit on negative numbers ★A task for quick finishers and more able students ★ A starter to check for prior learning Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. Click here for more negative number resources, including lessons worksheets and treasure hunts.