A few brain teasers to throw in during a lesson to keep your pupils on their toes.

A few years ago I wrote a set of notes for pupils and put them on my website. The notes were supposed to be written in a pupil-friendly way, and different to notes students might find in textbooks or elsewhere on the internet. I have converted the notes to PowerPoint slides so you can download them, adapt them if needed, use them in revision lessons or perhaps give your students a set to take home with them to help them prepare for exams. The chances are there will be a few mistakes here and there, so if you spot any please email me & I will correct them. Hope they are of use!

This word document worksheet activity helps with concentration and memory skills. Helps students remember facts such as these. A collective memory activity that conveys to pupils the importance of sequences, patterns and rules, as well as encouraging team work and communication. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 students.

An idea for a starter activities to engage pupils. It contains possible extension activities.

A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on factorising differentiation. 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 partial 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 Collective Memory activity on types and properties of quadrilaterals. 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

An idea for a starter activities to engage pupils. It contains possible extension activities.

Lots of different varieties of function machines, with options to hide and reveal answers. good intro to sequences.

A Tarsia activity on Dividing Decimals. 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 spot any (non deliberate!) mistakes, please share them below. Many thanks to all the teachers who have helped me assemble these Tarsias over the years.

This is a fun and engaging activity for KS3 and KS4 students to practice and revise multiples. This game is to be played in pairs. Each player takes it in turns to throw dice and add the two numbers together. They then cover a multiple of that number on the gozinto grid with counters. The first player to make a line of four wins.

A little starter testing pupils' knowledge of basic algebraic misconceptions in simplifying, multiplying and factorizing algebraic terms. The PowerPoint is only one slide and is great as a starter or plenary for KS3 and KS4 students.

Introduces the major concepts of this section using a map of the london underground.

A few years ago I wrote a set of notes for pupils and put them on my website. The notes were supposed to be written in a pupil-friendly way, and different to notes students might find in textbooks or elsewhere on the internet. I have converted the notes to PowerPoint slides so you can download them, adapt them if needed, use them in revision lessons or perhaps give your students a set to take home with them to help them prepare for exams. The chances are there will be a few mistakes here and there, so if you spot any please email me & I will correct them. Hope they are of use!

A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on Solving Trigonometric Equations in radians. 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 presentation that goes through common exam questions on quadratic inequalities.

An idea for a starter activity to engage pupils. It contains possible extension activities.

Four quite challenging puzzles about equivalent fractions.

A good challenge that tests knowledge of rotation, reflection and translation.