A tricky puzzle, to really get pupils thinking. Great as a group task. Students have to use geometrical reasoning to find unknown lengths and work out the area of various triangles and quadrilaterals.

Algebra Level 6 Algebra Level 7 Expanding brackets Whole class activity Randomly generates all different types of brackets for students to expand and simplify. also gives answers

A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on Solving Trigonometric Equations in degrees. 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 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 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 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!

An excellent match-up exercise to practise the sine rule kindly donated by Jenny Andrews.

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!

Provides a nice framework for pupils to investigate and record the properties of quadrilaterals.

A nice bingo game to add some spice to solving simple linear equations.

A worksheet with questions that investigate the Fibonacci sequence and some of its interesting properties. Ideal to use when teaching sequences at KS3 and KS4.

Who wants to be a millionnaire, this time involving measures.

A nice activity to really test knowledge of area and perimeter.

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!

Instructions of how to construct three different triangles.

A really nice way to introduce the trig functions.

A bingo game testing the laws of indices.

In this activity students match up the quadratic graph with the equations using factorisation and knowledge of intersections with the axes. There are sixteen cards in word document that can be adjusted. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 students.

A Tarsia activity on solving linear equations. 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.

SSM: Level 6. Great Plenary Activity. Find the area of different quadrilaterals. A bingo activity (with cards) to test students knowledge of perimeter, area and volume. Extension questions relate perimeter to algebra.