These Halloween maths multiplication differentiated treasure hunts will give students lots of practice of their times tables and multiplication skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween.Great for an active starter or fun activity for early finishers. Especially if you want students to practise and consolidate multiplication without using a traditional worksheet. Skills include: times tables to 12, multiplying a 1 digit by 2 digit, multiplying 2 digit by 3 digit. 10 treasure hunt cards per difficulty, solutions and student record cards included. Students absolutely love getting out of their seat and they can check their answers independently as they go along! Difficulties include: ★(blue letter box)times tables to 12 ★(gold letter box)multiplying a 1 digit by 2 digit ★(red letter box)multiplying 2 digit by 3 digit 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 all 3 sets off A4 and scatter them around the room and get students to start at different levels. They could move up a level if they complete the previous one ★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk See here for more Halloween themed activities.

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.

A comprehensive set of lesson plans for an introductory gymnastics unit, most appropriate for year 6 or lower KS3. The unit covers skills pupils will need to create their own individual gymnastics routines including individual balances, rotations, travelling movements, jumps and compositional aspects. All resources mentioned in the SOW are included in this product – Individual balance resources sheet and task card(Worth £3.50), set balances task card(not available anywhere else), rolls and balances task card, compositional aspects criteria and assessment matrix. This SOW / set of 6 lesson plans for gymnastics covers the following skills and objectives: Lesson 1 - Basic shapes - Know and demonstrate the basic shapes in gymnastics and apply them to a variety of different contexts. To develop control, fluency, tension and extension. To understand the compositional aspect of levels. Lesson 2 Rotations - To accurately replicate a variety of rotations. To know where the axis of rotation are. To apply skills learnt into a sequence Lesson 3 – Jumps - To accurately replicate a variety of jumps. To apply skills learnt into a sequence Lesson 4 – Individual balances - To accurately replicate balances individually. Lesson 5 – Travelling movements - To develop a variety of ways of travelling from one location to another. Lesson 6 – Composition and assessment - To develop and apply knowledge of compositional aspects. This SOW was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no gymnastics experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation, maybe watching a few videos before hand or printing out some resources. The scheme has diagrams, assessment levels, differentiation , teaching points, Assessment for learning/plenary activities, links to videos that show the skill, clear explanations of the tasks and all resources and links to the resources required via the lesson plan. No timings are included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. I also have a set of pair routines lesson plans with all the resources here

Help your students to engage with these seasonal Christmas maths activities. Skills covered currently include times tables and division up to 12 x 12 tessellations, rounding, solving equations and simplifying fractions. This is so you can download all updates in one go rather than downloading seperate files. Also This will enable you to download all future updates! if you are having trouble downloading the updates please email pickupandgoresources@gmail.com Included so far: ⁂Christmas pudding division colour by number ⁂Rudolph timestables colour by number ⁂Christmas tessellations ⁂Christmas multiplication mazes ⁂Christmas joke multiplication codebreaker Added 6/12/18 ⁂Rounding decimals codebreaker ⁂Rounding sig figs codebreaker ⁂Multiplying 4 digits by 2 digits ⁂Simplifying fractions Added 14/12/18 ⁂Solving one step equations codebreaker ⁂solving equations with unknowns on both sides codebreaker Added 18/12/18 ⁂Measuring angles Added 3/12/19 ⁂solving 2 step equations codebreaker ⁂adding and subtracting decimals colour by number ⁂percentage colour by number ⁂Indices colour by number Added 13/12/19 ⁂Angles in parallel lines colour by number ⁂Averages colour by number ⁂Averages code breaker ⁂Surds colour by number if you purchase this bundle now you will get all future updates for free. Every time something new is added the price will increase, so grab yourself a bargain now!

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 maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving one step equations 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 solving one step equations. 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 code breaker uses skills learnt in solving equations with unknowns on both sides 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 solving equations. x could be negative or positive and some questions also require students to expand a single bracket before solving. 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.

This Christmas maths measuring santa’s angles fun activity will give students lots of practice of measuring angles. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. The resourceh has 3 different sheets - measuring obtuse angles, measuring acute and obtuse where the lines are not parallel with the paper edge and measuring reflex angles. Perfect for any class that need to work on different skills. Answers included. If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

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 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.

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. U6FE

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. U6FE

A new fun and different way for students to create a basic sequence. These dice are great for use in a lesson on individual balances or as a one off activity in a gymnastics unit on creating individual sequences. This resource includes: -2 x Easy balances dice templates to print -2 x Medium balances dice templates print -2 x Hard balances dice templates print -1x Powerpoint file for the teacher to use to pick random links between balances. This includes a random links spinner, and an on screen prompt list for each type of link. HOW TO: Students pick a difficulty, roll the first dice for their starting balance and then roll the second for their ending balance. The teacher spins the links wheel on the powerpoint and students use that to link their 2 balances together. This process can be repeated many times to create a sequence. Need other gymnastics balances? Click here

Powerpoint lesson for using equivalent fractions to: simplify, compare and order fractions with all resources included. Resources include a work booklet, assessment for learning activities (bingo and active out of set pairing activities), starter and plenary. Skills covered include – finding a missing number in a set of equivalent fractions, cancelling fractions to their simplest form and ordering fractions with different denominators. Appropriate for KS3 or for GCSE. 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: Find equivalent fractions, including simplifying. Gold: Compare the size of fractions with different denominators Red: Order fractions with different denominators This resource includes: • A PowerPoint. •A PDF of the PPT slides so you know what is coming next. •Answers on the PowerPoint and in a separate PDF document for easy reference. • A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections and help boxes • An active card sort where students have to match the equivalent fractions (also options for doing this as an out of seat task) The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach right away. The lessons use the following format: •Starter • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • Assessment for learning activities • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) •Notes on the PPT slides. 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. This lesson would be appropriate to use as part of the Pearson Edexcel Foundation textbook unit 4, find more resources for that here. This is the first lesson in the series and is followed by the lesson you can find here.

This is all my gymnastics individual, pairs and group balances resources in one place. I order to ensure that you can download them all in one place and will be able to get updates in the future.

This Rounding To The Nearest Whole Number BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising rounding. Skills include rounding numbers up to 100 with one decimal place to the nearest whole number. 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, starters, plenaries, assesssment for learning activities or a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more rounding activities, including mazes, dominos and treasure hunts.