A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on algebraic fractions. These type of activities can be used to consolidate understanding of a given topic, and foster positive group work and co-operative learning. For more ideas on how to use these types of activities (including twists!) and to download the latest version of the wonderful free software to open this resource (and create your own), just click on the web-link. If you have any comments or feedback for Gill, please share them below.

A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on straight line graphs. These type of activities can be used to consolidate understanding of a given topic, and foster positive group work and co-operative learning. For more ideas on how to use these types of activities (including twists!) and to download the latest version of the wonderful free software to open this resource (and create your own), just click on the web-link. If you have any comments or feedback for Gill, please share them below.

Statistics Level 5 Short Activity/Plenary or Starter A crossword where students must work out the mean of a group of numbers to 2 decimal places in order to fill in the answers. solution provided

A Collective Memory activity on Fractions and Percentages. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

A Collective Memory activity on Circle rules and areas. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

A Collective Memory activity on Standard Form, Index Rules and Ratio. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

A Collective Memory activity on Circle Definitions. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

A Collective Memory activity on Statistical Diagrams. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

Statistics level 5: A simple tool for randomly generating a mixture of counters in a bag which students must then work out the probability

A Collective Memory activity on Prime Factors and Straight Line Graphs. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

A Collective Memory PowerPoint activity on Number Operations. This one contains missing answers and two deliberate mistakes. For more information and ideas about how to use this resource, and links to my full index of Collective Memory resources, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/collectivememory.htm

A quick starter or plenary activity designed to identify any misconceptions students might have with calculating simple areas.

A set of Starter Cards on powerpoint from the wonderful liverpool maths team. The idea is that you print out the cards, laminate them, and use the prompts on the back to engage the pupils in a stimulating discussion.

Pupils predict where an extra square would go to give the shape a line of symmetry.

Same again, but this time with two brackets.

Provides and editable set of data, and plots both the data points and the moving average.

A self assessment exercise for pupils to test their ability to work out the volume of a cuboid.

A nice activity which ties substitution and collecting like terms together.

Earliest recommended Year group: Year 12. From clues given about a geometric progression work out the possible solutions - all common ratios are the same and first terms are five times each other. This is from the “Something in Common” collection of resources by John Burke. They allow consolidation of key skills, prevent students from copying each other (as all the questions are different), make marking and assessing easy for the teacher (as all the answers are the same!), and provide a lovely extra challenge for students as they try to figure out exactly what is going on! To access the full collection, and read John’s background notes, please visit: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/common.htm

A match up exercise for linear sequences.