A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on factorising quadratics. 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.

“Build an Army” is a fun, strategy game that can be used to consolidate understanding of key mathematical concepts. After students have played the game and described their strategy, there are opportunities for differentiation via various lines of inquiry and probing questions for the students to investigate. Full instructions are provided in the “General Rules” PowerPoint. To find more Build an Army activities, just visit: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/buildanarmy.htm

This edexcel activity generates lots of variations of single bracket algebra questions to practice. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 students.

A nice set of cards to be used as a revision starter.

A Tarsia activity on Place Value. 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.

A brief summary of all the trig formulae needed for c3.

A PowerPoint with Revision notes on solving linear equations at KS4. 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.

A Tarsia activity on Estimating Calculations. 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.

A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on completing the square. 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.

Pupils must identify the mistakes made when setting out each of these four sets of scales.

Pupils must find a route to the target number by adding and subtracting decimals.

A presentation that tests pupils' abilities to identify the equations of straight line graphs, before developing this skill for representing linear inequalities graphically.

Four questions on integration with drop down menus to choose your answer. Highlights important misconceptions.

Match the equation of the line with the table of co-ordinates.

A match up activity for all the important area and volume formulae.

an introduction to the laws of indices

Graphically demonstrates arithmetic and geometric series on separate worksheets before comparing the two.

A nice demo of why you don't add the numerators and denominators of fractions.

A full lesson on f, d, p conversions.

Some nice volume questions.