All the factorising practice you could ever need.

Pupils join up some more co-ordiantes to get a picture.

Pupils join up co-ordiantes to get a picture.

This PowerPoint is suitable as a lesson and is an interesting and engaging way to practice 'like terms' in algebra. Magic squares are squares in which each column and row adds up to the same number or &'expression&';. A nice lesson to practice the concept of collecting like terms for KS3 and KS4 students.

A Tarsia activity on the order of operations (bodmas/bidmas). 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 good challenge that tests knowledge of rotation, reflection and translation.

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

An excellent lesson on discrete random variables, following the SMP S1 book, kindly donated by Lisa McNulty.

A simple way to introduce inverses as a means to solve equations.

A Tarsia activity on substituting into formulae. 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.

Transformations Level 4: A comprehensive lesson on reflections. Covers all the basics including how to desribe reflections. slides can be printed out as worksheets

A Collective Memory activity on Area, Perimeter & Volume from Christine Hill. This one contains missing answers and probing questions. 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

Clearly shows where the shapes of the 3 trig functions come from.

A full PowerPoint lesson on standard form using real life data about planets. This lesson has an introduction with examples and questions which is suitable to be taught at KS3 and KS4.

allows you to generate random linear equations of varying difficulty involving brackets and then provides the answer

students must arrange the dominoes in the correct sequence using their algebra skills

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!

Change constants to see the effect on the graph of the function. Covers linear and quadratic as well as harder ones too.

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.

Generates an infinite amount of linear equations, with different levels of difficulty, and provides the answers. the only problem is that the answers are sometimes nasty decimals!