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
Updated - Fixed a couple of typos and 2 answers
Worksheets for students to complete in class. 3 levels of difficulty have been included:
• Blue (easy) - Combine transformations
•Gold (medium) - Describe fully a reflection, translation or rotation
•Red (harder) - Combine transformations and describe the single equivalent transformation
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
A lesson on finding the circumference of a circle including all the resources you need to teach it. Skills covered include finding the circumference of a circle, finding the diameter or radius when given the circumference and working out the perimeter and arc length of sectors.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!).
Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:Find the circumference of a circle
Gold:Find the diameter/radius given the circumference
Red: work out the arc length and perimeter of sectors
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
• A Treasure hunt on circle names
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach circumference of circles.
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.
Need more resources for circumference of circles?
Differentiated worksheet on Circumference of circles
Circumference of circles set of differentiated treasure hunts (10 cards for each difficulty)
Circumference of circles treasure hunt
Adding fractions with common denominators. A set of no frills worksheets, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions.
4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total.
Find more fractions worksheets here
3 Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators mazes. This is a more engaging and fun way to practice adding and subtracting fractions without the use of a traditional worksheet. Great for consolidation in an adding and subtracting fractions lesson.
This product includes 3 unique mazes with full solutions.
If you have students that need practise with just adding or subtracting please see the links below for more mazes that focus on just adding or subtracting .
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. This activity is colour coded gold (medium).
Need more?
Adding fractions mazes
Subtracting fractions mazes
Adding and subtracting fractions treasure hunt
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 Halloween maths times tables bingo activity will give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Useful for a starter, settler or fun end of lesson activity that adds a bit of competitiveness to the lesson with a Halloween theme.
This product includes:
★48 unique student cards (3 OR 6 per A4 piece of paper, both types are included)
★A Teacher call out card which has the 40 questions (and answers) on them
★A set of questions on a PowerPoint file for overhead display (you could alter the slide order for use again with the same class)
★ Halloween themed clipart on the powerpoint and on the bingo cards.
~I would suggest laminating the student cards as they can then be reused if you give students a board pen to write on it/circle their numbers~
Want more halloween multiplication activities? Click here for multiplcation mazes.Click here for multiplication treasure hunts.Click here for Halloween multiplication colour by number
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
These Christmas maths multiplication mazes will give students lots of practice of their times tables and multiplication 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 practise and consolidate multiplication without using a traditional worksheet. 2 mazes work on timestables up to 12 and the other works on multiplying numbers between 2 and 12 by 2 digits.
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 3 unique mazes with solutions and some great Christmas clipart.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Find more Christmas maths activities 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.
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 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
★ Gold (medium)finding one missing angle in a 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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This Congruent shapes worksheet and notes page set are ideal for KS3 and GCSE students. Skills covered are: identifying a pair of congruent shapes on a square grid that are the same orientation and identifying a set of congruent shapes on a square grid that have been rotated, reflected or both.
There are 3 difficulty levels, Blue (easy), Gold (medium) and Red (hard).
Blue (2 x pages) covers finding congruent shapes that are the same orientation. The shapes are all different looking.
Gold (2 x pages) covers finding congruent shapes that have been rotated OR reflected.
Red (2 x pages) covers finding congruent shapes that have been rotated and/or reflected. The shapes are all quite similar looking.
Fantastic to use in lessons where you have a lot of different stages of learning. Also great to give to students for homework and they could pick the difficulty they wanted to do!
The notes page is good for students to keep in their books to use as a help guide. Included is a completely filled in version and a version that Students fill in the key points themselves.
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!
If you want more Congruent Shapes activities, check out my Treasure hunt 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.
This Halloween maths colour by number fun activity will give students lots of practice of solving 2 and 3 step equations. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween.
All the squares have numbers in them and students need to answer the questions and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer in the colour given in order to reveal a Halloween picture. This particular picture reveals a witch on a broom.
This product includes a question sheet for students to answer on and the colour by number on a separate sheet.
Great starter/plenary activity 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 math 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.
Students will find expanding single brackets more engaging with these sets of dominos. Great to use as AFL or a plenary in a lesson on expanding brackets and expanding a single bracket, or as a starter to check for prior learning when teaching something like expanding double brackets or solving equations with brackets.
This activity is a fun and novel way for students to practise expanding single brackets. 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
Expanding a single bracket with positive numbers on the outside only e.g. 2(3b -2)
Expanding a single bracket with positive numbers only ANSWERS
Expanding a single bracket with positive and negative numbers e.g. -3(3b -2)
Expanding a single bracket with positive and negative numbers ANSWERS
Expanding a single bracket with letters on the outside e.g. z(2x +5) and 3v(3g-2)
Expanding a single bracket with letters on the outside ANSWERS
Expanding a single bracket with letters and powers e.g. 2x2(3x +2)
Expanding a single bracket with letters and powers 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
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!
A treasure hunt on rounding to a mix of 1 decimal place, 2 decimal places and 3 decimal places. Perfect for a lesson on rounding or as a starter for significant figures.
This one is Gold (medium):
★Round to a specified number of decimal places.
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card. 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
I also have 3 other treasure hunts for rounding on rounding to significant figures, rounding to whole numbers & 10, 100, 100 and a mixture of all rounding skills which you can get as part of a differentiated set here.
I have also got rounding to decimal places and significant figures differentiated dominos available here
Please see here for more rounding and estimating resources.
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.
Treasure hunt where students have to name the parts of a circle. Cards for students to write on and answers included.
Students should write the letters that are on the bottom right of each card on their sheet in the order they visit the cards, this order should correspond to the answers.