Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
A fun 10 card treasure hunt for a finding angles in parallel lines lesson. Skills covered are: finding multiple missing angles in a set of parallel lines and giving reasons. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, assessment for learning activity or a plenary in a lesson on parallel lines or angles.
Difficulties include
★ Red (hard)finding multiple missing angles in a more complex set of parallel lines and giving reasons
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
Click here for more parallel lines resources, including foldables, worksheets, treasure hunts, lessons and tick or trash activities.
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A set of differentiated worksheets for finding a percentage of an amount. Skills covered are finding percentages of amounts in multiples of 10%, multiples of 5%, multiples of 1%, multiples of 10% where calculations may involve decimals, multiples of 5% where calculations may involve decimals, multiples of 1% where calculations may involve decimals, percentage increase and decrease.
Fantastic to use in lessons where you have a lot of different stages of learning (or over a few lessons!). Also great to give to students for homework and they could pick the difficulty they wanted to do!
Included is a PDF version and a Powerpoint version where the text within the tables are editable.
Difficulties include (for whole number calculations):
★ Blue (easy) – Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 10%
★ Gold (medium) - Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 5%
★ Red (Hard) Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 1%
Difficulties include (for decimal calculations):
★ Blue (easy) – Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 10%
★ Gold (medium) - Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 5%
★ Red (Hard) Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 1%
★ Purple (challenging) Finding percentage increase and decrease of amounts using a mixture of all the skills above.
There are approximately 60 blue questions, 60 gold questions, 60 red questions and 30 purple questions in these worksheets. Each topic is colour coded by difficulty. Full solutions included in the same format as the questions to make it easier to mark! Also included is a contents page so you can quickly look up what you need!
Click here for more percentage resources.
This Halloween maths colour by number is a fun activity that will give students lots of practice of solving one step equations. A great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween.
Skills include solving one step equations where the variable is either a positive or a negative number. Add, subtract, multiply and divide included.
Student should answer the question, then colour in all the squares with that answer with the colour given to reveal a mystery picture. This particular picture reveals a witches cauldron. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art border included that students can also colour in.
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
This Rounding To The Nearest 10, 100 or 1000 With 3 or 4 Digit Numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising rounding. Skills include rounding numbers from 600 to 9999 to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand.
Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering!
Try out a Rounding BINGO for free here.
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 rounding 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 rounding activities, including mazes, dominos and treasure hunts.
Adding fractions with uncommon denominators. A set of no frills worksheet, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions.
Hard difficulty on adding fractions. Both denominators are different.
4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total.
Find more fractions worksheets here
Want something a bit different? Click here for adding fractions with uncommon denominators mazes
Powerpoint lesson with a work booklet and tick or trash AFL activity on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS). Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with indices and brackets, inserting brackert into questions to make them correct.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!). Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets)
Gold:Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices
Red:Insert brackets into questions to make them correct, work out questions with more than one set of brackets.
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
• A tick or trash activity (this could be done alone or in pairs, or in groups!)
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach order of operations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A short starter that can lead into a discussion about BIDMAS
• 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 grades, 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.
I also have a differentiated set of worksheets on Order of operations available here.
Worksheets with questions on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS) for students to complete in class. Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with indices and brackets, inserting brackert into questions to make them correct.
The 3 levels of difficulty that have been included:
★Blue(easy):Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets)
★Gold(medium):Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices
★Red(hard):Insert brackets into questions to make them correct, work out questions with more than one set of brackets.
Answers are included
Need a lesson for order of operations? Find it here
NEW - BIDMAS treasure hunts
A lesson on using Pythagoras theorem. Includes a powerpoint teaching students about how to apply Pythagoras’ theorem, a differentiated workbook and a rounding dominos activity for the starter. Skills covered include using Pythagoras to find the hypotenuse, using Pythagoras to find the short side and length of a set of coordinates, using Pythagoras to find the perimeter of compound shape
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!).
Students will need to know how to round to significant figures and decimal places in order to access this lesson fully.
Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle.
Gold:
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find length of a short side in a right-angled triangle
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find the length of a line segment, given the coordinates of the end-points.
Red:
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find lengths and areas of compound shapes
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
• 2 sets of dominos on rounding to decimal places and significant figures to use as a starter activity (if you need a more comprehensive set of dominos click here)
• Answers
The PowerPoint includes the following format (watch the preview video here):
• Objective and levels
• A starter
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• And Afl mini whiteboard quiz
• Plenary (with answers)
Recommendations:
Laminate the dominos for use again
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grades, 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 at least.
Need more Pythagoras??
Check out my differentiated worksheets here. Great for homework!
Students will find rounding to decimal places and significant figures more engaging with these sets of dominos. Great to use as a starter or plenary in a lesson on rounding to decimal places or significant figures, or as a starter to check for prior learning when teaching something like Trigonometry or Pythagoras. Skills include rounding to 1 decimal places, 2 decimal places, 1 significant figure, 2 significant figures, 3 significant figures and a mix of all.
This activity is a fun and novel way for students to practise rounding to decimal places and significant figures. They can start on any domino they like, answer the question, find the answer on a different domino then repeat the process. If they have answered all questions correctly they should end up back at the domino they started with.
Why dominos is a great activity:
Students can check their own answers
They will complete 20 questions in a way that is completely different from standard worksheets
Students find it fun to search for and find the answers
They can be laminated to be used again
This pages contained in this product are:
Contents
Instructions
Rounding to 1 decimal place
Rounding to 1 decimal place Answers
Rounding to 2 decimal places
Rounding to 2 decimal places Answers
Rounding to 1 significant figure
Rounding to 1 significant figure Answers
Rounding to 2 significant figures
Rounding to 2 significant figures Answers
Rounding to 3 significant figures
Rounding to 3 significant figures Answers
Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 1
Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 1 Answers
Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 2
Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 2 Answers
Working out sheet 1
Working out sheet 2
Suggestions for use:
• Give to pairs for a collaborative activity
• Give one each to a group of students and they need to find their answer and make a line
• Give to individual students to complete on their desk
• Once students have completed a set give them the answers as evidence of their accomplishment/get them to take a picture of the finished loop and stick it in
This is a great, engaging activity for solving one step equations for end of lesson consolidation, early finishers, homework or a starter . Especially if you want students to practise and consolidate solving one step equations without using a traditional worksheet.This product contains 5 unique mazes.
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.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Click here for one step equations worksheets.
A more engaging way to practice rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
With this product you are getting:
★ 3 mazes on rounding to the nearest 10
★ 3 mazes on rounding to the nearest 100
★ 3 mazes on rounding to the nearest 1000
★ 3 mazes on rounding to a mixture of the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
This bundle is perfect for you if you have students with different ability levels in the same class. Those ahead can do the mixture while the others concentrate on one specific skill.
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!
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
A US and UK version are included.
A fun 10 card treasure hunts for a function machines lesson. Skills covered are: finding the input of a function machine by using inverse operations. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter for a lesson on solving equations or as AFL/ a plenary for a lesson on finding the input of a function machine.
Difficulties include
★ Gold (medium) - Finding the input of a function machine by using inverse operations
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
See here for more function machines resources, including lessons and other treasure hunts.
A fun 10 card treasure hunt for a finding angles in parallel lines lesson. Skills covered are: finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, assessment for learning activity or a plenary in a lesson on parallel lines or angles.
Difficulties include
★ Blue (easy)finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
Click here for more parallel lines resources, including foldables, worksheets, lessons and tick or trash activities.
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A set of Treasure hunts with questions on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS) for students to complete in class. Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with brackets and using it with indices. Answers and student record cards included.
The 3 levels of difficulty that have been included:
★★Blue(easy):Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets)
★Gold(medium):Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets
★Red(hard):Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices
See here for more BIDMAS resources, including powerpoint lessons, worksheets and codebreaker activities.
This Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines. A fun seasonal activity to engage students before Christmas AND they are still doing work!
Great for a starter/plenary or early finishers. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate parallel line angles facts without using a traditional worksheet.
Skills covered include:
❄Corresponding angles
❄Alternate angles
❄Co-interior angles
❄Vertically opposite angles
❄4 questions where students have to use either corresponding or alternate angles AND angles on a straight line to find the missing angle
There are a total of 26 questions included.
All the squares have a number in them and students need to find the missing angle and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal a christmas stocking. Fun Holiday clip art border included.
This product includes:
❄A Colour by Number sheet
❄2 question sheets with space for workings
❄An Answer sheet for teachers
If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.
This is a great, engaging activity for a lesson on roman numerals. Skills covered are converting from roman numerals to normal numbers and converting from normal numbers to roman numerals. Great for end of lesson consolidation, early finishers, homework or a starter . Especially if you want students to practise and consolidate roman numeral conversions 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 8 unique mazes with full solutions:
Converting from roman numerals to ordinary numbers up to 10
Converting from ordinary numbers to roman numerals up to 20
Converting from roman numerals to ordinary numbers in multiples of 10
Converting from ordinary numbers to roman numerals in multiples of 10
Converting from roman numerals to ordinary numbers up to 100 x 2
Converting from ordinary numbers to roman numerals up to 100 x 2
Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Full solutions included.
A treasure hunt for students to complete in class.
This one is Blue (easy) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is 1. E.g.
10x + y = 4
8x + y = 25
I also have a full pack of differentiated treasure hunts with easy, medium and hard levels for sale. Please click here.
This rounding to the nearest whole number and 10 BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising rounding. Skills include rounding numbers up to 100 to the nearest ten.
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 rounding 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 rounding activities, including mazes, dominos and treasure hunts.
Excel workbook that randomises numbers to create a limitless supply of questions that can be copied and pasted into worksheets or lessons.
Includes:
-percentage of amounts for calculator and non calculator
-percentage decrease
-percentage increase
-what was the original total?
Press F9 to refresh the numbers.
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and whole numbers. 1 maze with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to 10, 100, 1000 and whole 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.
Recommended uses for this activity
★a revision tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding to whole numbers and the nearest 10 etc
★A task for quick finishers and more able students
★ A starter to check for prior learning for students that are going to move onto rounding to decimal places
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
See here for more mazes on rounding.