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 hunts for a function machines lesson. Skills covered are: finding the output of a function machine. 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 output of a function machine.
Difficulties include
★ Blue (easy) Finding the output of a function machine with 2 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 set of differentiated treasure hunts on rounding with 4 different difficulties. Skills covered include rounding to 10, 100, 1000 & whole numbers, rounding to decimal places, rounding to significant figures and a mixture of all rounding skills. Student record card and solutions included.
Difficulties include
★ Blue (easy) rounding to 10, 100, 1000 & whole numbers
★ Gold (medium) Round to a specified number of decimal places. (available FREE here)
★ Red (hard) rounding to a given number of significant figures
★ Purple (challenge) a mixture of all the rounding skills above
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
Please see here for more rounding and estimating resources.
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 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.
Rounding to a mixture of the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 maze worksheets. 3 mazes with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
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 revison tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding
★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.
Want more rounding to the 10, 100 or 1000 activities? Click HERE for BINGO.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
Rounding to the nearest 1000 maze worksheets. 3 mazes with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to the nearest 1000.
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 revison tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding
★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.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
Rounding to the nearest 100 maze worksheets. 3 mazes with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to the nearest 100.
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 revison tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding
★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.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
Rounding to the nearest 10 maze worksheets. 3 mazes with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to the nearest 10.
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 revison tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding
★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.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
Click here for rounding to the nearest 10 BINGO
Rounding to the nearest whole numbers maze worksheet. 3 mazes with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to 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 revison tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding
★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.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
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.
Everything you could need to teach BIDMAS. An order of operations lesson, a fun BIDMAS codebreaker activity which could be used for consolidation and an order of operations differentiated worksheet which could be used for a starter in the next lesson to check for prior learning.
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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.
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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 codebreaker fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables.
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. Fun Halloween clip art pictures included.
More Halloween codebreakers available here
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
This is a lesson on function machines which includes a powerpoint, workbook and treasure hunt. Objectives include finding outputs of function machines, inputs of function machines(using inverse operations), operations and creating expressions using function machines.
This is a 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 output of a function machine
Gold:Use inverse operations to find the input of a function machine
Red:Find the operations of a function machine
Challenge (Purple): Use function machines to create expressions
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
•A treasure hunt for using inverse operations to find the input of a function machine
• Full answers
The PowerPoint includes the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
•A miniwhiteboard AFL check
•Answers to the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
You can input your own grades to reflect your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet (in the first table) if you input a 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.
Click Here for more function machines resources. Including worksheets and treasure hunts.
Dividing fractions worksheets
If so this set of worksheets is good for students that need a lot of repetition! This could be used as classwork, homework or a quiz. There are 8 unique worksheets and 160 questions in total in this product.
Each worksheet features:
★20 questions evenly spaced out
★Room for students to write their answers
★An attractive decorative frame
★All answers are included on a separate, easy to read page and will save you time when marking work.
This product includes adding fractions mazes, subtracting fractions mazes and a mixture of adding and subtracting fractions. They include adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators, uncommon multiples and uncommon denominators for full differentiation. These are perfect for a lesson on adding and subtracting fractions where you have students on different levels and don’t want to use a traditional worksheet.
This product includes the following mazes:
★ 3x Adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators
★ 3x Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators
★ 3x Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators
★ 3x Adding fractions with common denominators
★ 3x Adding fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators
★ 3x Adding fractions with uncommon denominators
★ 3x Subtracting fractions with common denominators
★ 3x Subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators
★ 3x Subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators
You are getting 27 mazes in this bundle with full solutions. They are differentiated and colour coded as follows:
★Blue – using common denominators
★Gold – using uncommon denominators where one denominator is a multiple of the other
★Red – using uncommon random denominators
**Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators maze bundle **
This product is a bundle of all my adding/subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators mazes (where one denominator is a multiple of the other). It includes the following products:
It includes the following:
★ 3 x Adding fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators mazes.
★ 3 x Subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators mazes.
★ 3 x Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators mix mazes.
You are getting 9 mazes in this bundle with full solutions.
This is a more engaging way of practicing adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators.
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).
**Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators maze bundle **
This product is a bundle of all my adding/subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators mazes.
It includes the following:
★ 3 x Adding fractions with uncommon denominators mazes .
★ 3 x Subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators mazes .
★ 3 x Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators mix mazes .
You are getting 9 mazes in this bundle with full solutions.
This is a more engaging way of practicing adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators.
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 red (hard).