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.

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

This Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of finding the mean, median, mode or range. 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 finding averages without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to find the averge from a list of given numbers and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal a Christmas Tree. Fun Holiday clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄A question sheet with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click 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

Transformations worksheet on translations. Includes translating a shape from worded instructions, translations and vectors and describing the translation. Fully differentiated and answers included. 3 levels of difficulty have been included: • Blue (easy) - translating a shape on a square grid •Gold (medium) - translating a shape using vectors •Red (harder) - describing the transformation If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here If you need a translations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook 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.

Circumference of circles treasure hunts. 3 different difficulties for circumference of circles included with these treasure hunts. Skills included are: finding the circumference when given the radius or diameter, finding the diameter or radius when given the circumference and finding the arc length and perimeter of sectors. Updated - Changed some of the gold answers so they show the radius rather than the diameter of the circle. Answers and pupil record cards included. Please see herefor a free version of the blue treasure hunt. The 3 levels of difficulty are: • Blue (easy) -Find the circumference of a circle •Gold (medium) - Find the diameter or radius when given the circumference •Red (harder) - Find the arc length and perimeter of sectors My other resources for circumference of a circle: Differentiated worksheet on Circumference of circles Circumference and parts of a circle whole lesson (download, print and teach)

A fun 10 card treasure hunt for students to practice identifying congruent shapes on a square grid. Skills covered are: Identifying a pair of congruent shapes that have been either rotated, reflected or both. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, AfL activity or plenary in a lesson on congruent shapes. Great for a recap for GCSE students. 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

This Valentine’s day themed colour by number will give students lots of practice of substituting into expresssions. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Valentine’s. The Picture will reveal an Emoji. Great for display! Skills include substituting values that are positive and negative using a variety of operations. Use as a plenary, for early finishers or a fun activity. It’s also great if you want students to practice and consolidate substituting into expressions without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to evaluate the expression and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal an emoji. There is also a clip art border for students to color in. This product includes: ♥A Color by Number sheet ♥1 question sheet with space for workings ♥An Answer sheet for teachers ♥♥ Find other Valentine’s Day Maths resources here ♥♥

This Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of simplifying surds. 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 simplifying surds without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a surd in them and students need to simplify the surd given and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal Father Christmas. Fun Holiday clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄A question sheet with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

This Christmas maths codebreaker uses skills learnt in multiplying 4 digits by 2 digits, Rounding to decimal places, rounding to significant figures and simplifying fractions to reveal Christmas jokes. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practise rounding, multiplying and simplifying fractions. UPDATED 16/12/19 - fixed the code box on rounding to decimal places. It was showing the incorrect on on the question sheet. Each skill has a different sheet, so there are 4 total worksheets all with awesome Christmas clip art and answers included. The skills included here are normally taught/covered in lower KS3 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 christmas 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 Christmas codebreaker that uses multiplcation skills. If you would like more Christmas 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 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.

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 Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of simplifying ratios. 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 simplifying ratios without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a surd in them and students need to simplify the surd given and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal Father Christmas. Fun Holiday clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄A question sheet with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

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: Geometric christmas stocking (easy) For this 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. More Christmas tessellations are available here. Click here for more Christmas maths resources

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 Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in finding the mean, median, mode and range to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice finding averages.All the answers are integers. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each) See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills. If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.

This Christmas maths colour by number fun activity will give students lots of practice of finding percentages of a number. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. The resource is differentiated into 3 different difficulties - finding 10% multiples, finding 5% multiples and finding 1% multiples. The outcome for each sheet is the same even though the questions are different. This resource can be used for all your KS3 and KS4 groups - let KS4 students differentiate for themselves, give lower ability groups the 10% multiples and give higher ability groups the 1% multiples. A fun easy activity for the end of christmas term BUT students will still be completing more than 300 questions on percentages! Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answers in order to reveal a Christmas picture. This particular picture reveals a Christmas tree. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Christmas clip art border included. If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.