A game board in publisher format for practicing the percentages of amounts. Suitable as a group activity and dice needed. Ideal for key stage 3 students.

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.

A Tarsia activity on everything to do with percentages. 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 edexcel activity generates lots of variations of single bracket algebra questions to practice. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 students.

The 48th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. In my opinion, there is no better way of illustrating the concept of Volumes of Revolution to students than using Autograph’s unique 3D engine. Watch their delight at the area under the curve spins neatly around the x-axis to form a lovely 3D shape bringing what can be a very abstract concept to life. This video will set us up nicely for next week when we look at how to use Autograph to derive the Volume of Revolution formula. Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

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.

Have a play around with this task, and please share any questions, extensions, simplifications, modifications, or lines of inquiry in the comment box below. The idea is to collect loads of suggestions that can then be used for effective differentiation. The full set of these tasks, along with additional notes, can be found here: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/richtasks.htm

A Tarsia activity on linear sequences (nth term rule). 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.

“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

A nice puzzle that tests pupils' ability to interpret information and use knowledge of averages.

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.

Have a play around with this task, and please share any questions, extensions, simplifications, modifications, or lines of inquiry in the comment box below. The idea is to collect loads of suggestions that can then be used for effective differentiation. The full set of these tasks, along with additional notes, can be found here: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/probing-maths-questions-index-page/

This a rich, Arithmagon activity on solving simultaneous equations. I love Arithmagons as they allow consolidation of key topics when going Forwards, and then opportunities for extension, creativity and discovery when working Backwards. They are also really easy to modify to suit the particular needs of your class. For all the Arithmagon activities in this series, together with teaching notes and extra information, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/arithmagon.htm

This is a “Tarsia: Convince Me” activity on BIDMAS / Order of Operations Unlike standard Tarsia activities, here you only need to print out the solution (included on the PowerPoint), and students must: 1. Find (at least) 5 incorrectly matched up elements, convince you that each one is incorrect explaining the mistake that has been made, and then decide what the answer should have been 2. Replace the ? with the correct answer 3. Come up with a question to replace ?? that could give the answer. A selection of these questions can then be given to other students to use as a rich, challenging, pupil-created homework. To access all my updated Tarsia jigsaw activities, including the Convince Me series, as well as teacher notes and more, please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/jigsaw.htm

This is a simple card activity where students must match the diagram of the straight line to its equation. This excel document is suitable for KS3 and KS4 students.

A presentation and worksheet to introduce the basics of ratio. Suitable for KS3 and lower KS4 students. Questions and examples are included for students to practice and discuss.

Lots of games to introduce important concepts of probability.

A fun way to practice translations using vectors.

Solving linear Equations with the unknown on both sides. A powere point lesson which explains one method of solving equations with unknowns on both sides. An equation is like a set of scales. To keep it balanced, whatever you do to one side you must do to the other.

A way of introducing how to factorize quadratic equations by means of a number game. This PowerPoint presentation gives questions on sum and product followed by factorizing quadratic questions. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 students as a revision plenary or starter.