Twenty Ideas for Improving the Progress of Pupil Premium Disadvantaged students I’m not an academic and many of these below are not based on verifiable evidence. However, they seem to work for me. Even if they don’t work at least you can show that you are doing something. If you like these and find these useful then please leave a positive and useful review. Better still put your ideas in the review and I'll add them in the update! This resource will stay as free to download but do check out my shop and my other Premium TES resources where I'm sure you'll find something to help you and save you time.

Simple matching terms, definitions and diagrams Circle Properties activity. Young people love trading games…Share out to everyone the cards…they then roam the room trading one for one until they make up matching sets. Once they get a matching set they check with the adult who gives them a token if right. This set has 22 matching sets of 3 cards - a massive piece of work! You need to plan carefully how you are going to use it, what the ability is of your users and how collaborative they can be. Then print out onto A4 white card & chop up. Share out most of the cards to your learners. Learners then need to collect matching sets. Once they have a matching stack you issue tokens and give them another few cards so that they can continue playing until you call time. You can give some element of control to this by first insisting that they first only trade with their table partners. This helps to identify who is going to struggle (and/or go off task). You can then manage them trading with another particular table and eventually it becomes a free for all and they all get up. The tokens really do help to give the element of competition. Watch out for students who give all their cards away and then opt out. Or small groups of students who go to one corner and share with each other and then don’t move around the room (although the tokens usually motivate most). Also included Circle or Not Activity Poster templates for students. Mr Wrong Mastery exercise - print onto A4 2x7 labels two match up definitions to key words work sheets Circle Area Circumference Glossary Knowledge Test MCQ Senteo SMART Response THREE Quizes . (Two versions of one quiz included)

All you need to have a lesson based on rolling one die and recording the outcomes. I’ve done this activity as part of circus of many activities in a lesson (Other circus activities listed on my TES Resources pages) but you can make a whole lesson out of this depending on what you are trying to achieve. Many different versions of the task sheets. Look at them all and decide on the best to suit your learners. Several different versions of Excel Spreadsheets to record the results on - including one which I can’t remember how it works (the RANDOM one). If you find it useful please leave a helpful review. Thanks

20 3D shapes have been drawn. For each shape there are six matching cards: Plan View, Side Elevation, Front Elevation, Net, Number of Faces, Edges & Vertices. Students roam the room in pairs trying to collect a matching set of cards. Alternatively print out on smaller cards and give each table group a set to sort out. Please see my other similar resources if you like this.

This is about 12 hours of my work. I hope that you can see how it would be used in one or several of your lessons. The main is 18 Higher Maths GCSE standard exemplar questions on solving simultaneous linear and quadratic equations. I've done the work for you by researching questions from past papers. I've then written solutions and ranked them according to difficulty. I've provided a flow chart for the students to attempt. I've indicated which questions they should all do and which questions are available for additional practice and familiarity if time allows. This illustrates "Maths Mastery" as only the questions needed are presented and it is clear what the progression is or what the "milestones" are in this topic. I think that it's a comprehensive list of the types of question needed at GCSE. The other mastery (Plenary?) questions are of all the concepts involved. I would present as either questions on the board or as questions on individual cards for them to discuss. The starter would probably be the linear equations domino cards. They would remind students of how to check that solutions fit and what different methods there are for solving. The starter I wanted to create but never got around to is presenting a series of curves and lines on cards and getting the students to match up and look for the simultaneous solutions. The top tips are an idea given by an experienced HOD who told me to make sure that the students know exactly what is needed for the examination. The Glossary took some time to research and write. I kept adding to it throughout my preparation so I think it's pretty comprehensive. I used a MEP CIMT resource as a basis of my preparation. Many thanks for them - the URL is given. I never got around to making the matching PowerPoint presentation but I have given the URL of an example from TES resources which I would use as a basis for planning mine. The graph drawings on the SMART Notebook I think could provide quite a lot of inspiration for some good starters or even further study - hence I've provided the SMART so that you can edit them. The main assessment would be the GCSE Sample question. I recognise that I didn't create the question however I have provided the written exemplar solution for you. I prepared this ready for a GCSE Y10 Interview lesson which I withdrew from a couple of days before the interview. Hence the bulk of the work has been done but it's not complete and needs a little bit more input. The lesson plan suits my style of teaching but it isn't finished. Any questions about this then please make contact.

This is well worth the download purchase cost because you can keep your students occupied for hours on these! A maze worksheet where students have to find their way through a maze using a path of only square numbers. This is a top quality way to engage and amuse the students - particularly in afternoon lessons or at the end of the term as they seem to love it. Once they have got the idea with the smaller mazes they can attempt the bigger ones - this will keep them busy for hours! (well most of the lesson with any luck). There are three versions of the practice simpler versions and then one harder (04) and then the hardest (05). I'm putting up all my square numbers activities so check them out on TES shortly! If you like this then please check out my many other Maths activities listed on my TES Resources shop and pages including many Premium resources which may be able to save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. If you find this helpful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

Objective: Simplify algebraic expressions by collecting like terms and then simplifying. 12 questions which identify particular types of questions like "a- a = 0" and not "0a", etc. The questions are inspired from an excellent worksheet published by mathsmalakiss. I've used his/her worksheet and then used this as a starter for the next lesson. Worksheet is designed to be printed out as two pages on A4 to save paper. Answer sheets included :) If you like this then do check out my many other Maths activities listed on my TES Resources shop and pages including many Premium resources which will save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. If you find this helpful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

Triangle Types Classification Exercises Discussion Collaborative Maths Mastery Magenta Principles

Massive Bundle of Senteo quizes. Most 5 questions each - some more This will save you a huge amount of time.

Young people love trading games…Share out to everyone the cards…they then roam the room trading one for one until they make up matching sets. Once they get a matching set they check with the adult who gives them a token if right. This set has 72 matching sets of 9 cards - a massive piece of work! First a picture (not to scale) of a rectangle with it’s length and width labeled. Card 1 - A length Card 2 - A width Card 3 - The area Card 4 - the length plus the width (i.e. 1/2 the perimeter Card 5 - The perimeter Card 6 - A comparison of the length and the width Card 7 - Whether the shape is a rectangle or a square Card 8 - A comparison of the values of the perimeter and area. It was originally designed to have lots of similar areas and perimeters so that there are many matching sets of cards without learners having to find a unique matching set. You need to plan carefully how you are going to use it, what the ability is of your users and how collaborative they can be. Then print out accordingly. Below are a few suggestions. Print out the nine separate cards on different colour cards. Cut them out. Then spend 15 minutes making stacks of the nine cards (obviously not matches). You then distribute a stack to each learner. Learners then need to collect matching sets which have one of each colour. Once they have a matching stack you issue a token and given them another stack so that they can continue playing until you call time. You can give some element of control to this by first insisting that they first only trade with their table partner, then only on their tables. This helps to identify who is going to struggle (and/or go off task). You can then manage them trading with another particular table and eventually it becomes a free for all and they all get up. You can make the task easier by printing out on different colour cards so that the every eight cards (one page) of each card set is printed out on a different colour card. This means that learners can look for cards which are the same colour as theirs. You can reduce the number of cards - either by only printing out a limited number so that learners have to pair up to make a complete set. You can make the game significantly harder by removing the picture cards and slightly harder by removing the 1/2 perimeter cards You can make the game easier by removing all but the picture, area and perimeter cards. When I say easier, this can mean take less time to play. It’s worth trying with a few different classes to see how they respond (and behave). Watch out for students who give all their cards away and then opt out. Or small groups of students who go to one corner and share with each other and then don’t move around the room (although the tokens usually motivate most). I’ve included a matching worksheet but there are plenty of these allready on the TES which others have made.

Young people love trading games. Designed for Y9H GCSE, however suitable for many. There are 34 Construction/Loci scenarios cards. Each scenario has a matching description and another describing in terms of the Maths - i.e. “Perpendicular bisector.” All cards are unique so there is only one correct match which can be checked against the answer key. It is designed to be a comprehensive reflection of what could be in GCSE. There are several formats of the printout included. Print out the cards on A5 yellow card. Then make stacks of the 3 cards (obviously not matches). You then distribute a stack to each Learner who then need to collect matching sets. Once they have a set you issue a token and give them another stack so they can continue playing until you call time. (Alternatively, pair everyone up and give each pair one set - makes the game last longer). They must trade one for one until they make up matching sets and they must always keep the picture card they were given. You need to plan carefully how you are going to use it, depending on ability how collaborative they can be. There five difficulty grades (Green, Blue, Red, Black & Diamond Black). This is a subjective judgement but useful for a mixed ability class. Give out the green picture cards to your weakest, and so on. You can first insist that they first only trade with their table partners. This helps to identify who is going to struggle (and/or go off task). You can fix it that their 2nd card is with someone on their table. They then trade with another particular table and eventually it becomes a free for all and they all get up. The tokens really do help to give the element of competition. Watch out for students who give all their cards away and then opt out. Or small groups of students who go to one corner and share with each other and then don’t move around the room. You can vary the difficulty of the activity when you print out the cards. The ability cards can be printed out on 10 different colours. You will know that matches have to be made up of particular colours which makes it easier to assess and sort out for next time. You can print out all the cards onto smaller cards and then give each table a whole class set. This could be done for learners who don’t cope well with moving around. You can use with lower ability by only printing out easier cards. There are questions which can either be displayed on the board or printed on back of cards to aid discussion. If you spot any mistakes, errors or inaccuracies - please do let me know. If you like this resource please do rate it and see my other TES resources. Here are some quotes from the first class I used it with: "It’s more fun than working” “A great way of learning new skills and gets everybody engaged” “Good as we met others we don’t usually talk to” “Good active and enjoyable”. I took on their feedback and added more to the picture cards to make it easier.

Objective: Convert between decimal units for time and normal time units Needed for the problems such as "Convert 5.2 hours into 5 hours and 12 minutes" which is common on longer time questions on such examination as GCSE Maths OCR J560 where the specification states "Use and convert standard units of measurement for length, area, volume/capacity, mass, time and money." This is a massive resource bundle which you will be able to use immediately for your learners to first teach, then give practice to and to then assess them on. Most resources are easily adaptable if you need. 21 files includes: SMART Senteo 5 question Quiz (& answers & copies on PDF if you don't have SMART) PowerPoint to teach the idea of clockface decimal time 11 Questions PowerPoint quiz (with answers) Table Completion WS Bell Task Starter Settler Activity includes ANS, WS and PowerPoint Convert to Decimals WS & Ans Poster on Decimal Time Factors of 60 Poster to aid understanding Two sets of 5 questions of graded problem solving questions (& answers) Clock face learning WS - good for recap Sheet of more matching hours, fraction and minutes for you to use for oral questioning A clockface on SMART Notebook for using to teach A useful image of a clockface If you like this then check out my many other activities listed on my TES Resources Shop (Stewsterthebear) which includes many free and Premium resources which will save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Stewsterthebear If you find this resource useful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

These labels trim out and fit exactly the school trays we all have. Save you having to design them. Then either laminate or stick plastic film over them. Hope it helps! If you like this then please check out my many other Maths activities listed on my TES Resources shop and pages including many Premium resources which may be able to save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. If you find this helpful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

A sheet of questions. Only three questions - slightly differently worded to set to different ability students. Prints out on A4 labels (7 x 3). If you like this then please check out my many other Maths activities listed on my TES Resources shop and pages including many Premium resources which may be able to save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. If you find this helpful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

A card sort activity to reinforce, recap, discover or revise finding bounds on rounded numbers. GCSE or KS3 from Y7 to Y11. Use the included images and display on the whiteboard when showing the student. Alternatively embed the templates into your interactive white board software and use them to create examples to display - PDF and SMART Notebook versions are included. First decide on how many groups of students you have. Print the cards out and cut them up. Print the placemats out (& possibly laminate). Then each group are given all 10 placemats and a set of cards. They then place them in the correct places on the cards (covering the yellow spaces). Use the answers to check them. I’ve printed the answers onto A5 card and held them together with treasury tags. Alternatively, print the placemats out on to A6 (1/4 of A4) and you now have ten bingo cards. However, this was only a secondary idea and some placemats have more blanks than others (Differentiate?!). Use the PowerPoint to display the answers. There are three sets of the answers (all randomised) so you can play it at least 3 times. I used an Excel spreadsheet to generate the questions and answers. It is included so you can create your own. There is also a matching worksheet which can be printed on to A5. Answers are included. & I’ve just added three extra matching WS (with answers). Print onto A5. WS3 is easiest- WS1 is hardest. If you like this then check out my many other activities listed on my TES Resources Shop (Stewsterthebear) which includes many free and Premium resources which will save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Stewsterthebear If you find this resource useful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

Simple volume of cubes, cuboids and square prisms activity. Young people love trading games…Share out to everyone the cards…they then roam the room trading one for one until they make up matching sets. Once they get a matching set they check with the adult who gives them a token if right. This set has 16 matching sets of 8 cards - a massive piece of work! The six cards have a length, width, height, volume, picture and name It was originally designed to have lots of similar lengths so that there are many matching sets of cards without learners having to find a unique matching set. You need to plan carefully how you are going to use it, what the ability is of your users and how collaborative they can be. Then print out accordingly. Below are a few suggestions. Print out the cards on 3x7 A4 labels. Stick them onto plain playing cards (from your educational supplier). Then spend 5 minutes making stacks of the six cards (obviously not matches). You then distribute a stack to each pair. Learners then need to collect matching sets. Once they have a matching stack you issue two tokens and given them another stack so that they can continue playing until you call time. You can give some element of control to this by first insisting that they first only trade with their table partners. This helps to identify who is going to struggle (and/or go off task). You can then manage them trading with another particular table and eventually it becomes a free for all and they all get up. The tokens really do help to give the element of competition. Watch out for students who give all their cards away and then opt out. Or small groups of students who go to one corner and share with each other and then don’t move around the room (although the tokens usually motivate most). I’ve included a matching set of worksheets - 24 versions which have varying levels of difficulty & then a set of matching settler/starter WS’s

Really good practical idea/resource to use when introducing solving linear equations. I used it after we had already done a little algebra and so this exercise was to link together the practical, the visual, the algebra and explaining in words. Each pair has an A4 laminate of the Scales.gif and a envelope of 10 weights and about 10 gold blocks (Resources.jpeg). You'll need to print these out, laminate and cut out. Then the TaskSheet.docx goes in to the pupil exercise books. The students use the practical resources to come up with balancing scales and then reproduce them in their books. They then choose one to present as a poster on A4 (POSTER.docx) . I gave them all a black and white copy of the poster first and once corrected they could do again "best" on the colour copy. After that we scanned the posters in and then choose examples to set them to the class as the starter for the next day. This is what my written feedback said after being observed by my Head as a part of a learning walk: "Areas of good practice: -High quality resource which was visual and involved pupils in a practical activity -Pupil choice -Pupils making up their own questions -Pupils working collaboratively -Use of Magenta Principle CHANGE where pupils had to alter a set of variables and CONNECT where they used the information given and previous learning." I found this resource in the cupboard but it had no instructions so I came up with this idea to use it.

There is always a confusion between quadrilaterals such as Parallelograms, Squares and Rhombuses. When drawn on grid paper they can get mixed up. Hence this activity. I've collected all the resources I've used for this so there is a good mix and you will be able to use/adapt most of this for your classes. Enjoy I've also added PDF versions of the SMART files (November 2016) If you like this then check out my many other activities listed on my TES Resources Shop (Stewsterthebear) which includes many free and Premium resources which will save you lots of time and give you some useful ideas. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Stewsterthebear If you find this resource useful then please do leave a constructive review so that others can benefit from your experience. Thank you.

to encourage the use of the correct language and the basic understanding of the basic concepts I made this activity which has worked well with several classes. There is plenty of opportunity for discussion and sharing of what students know. The Notebook was used to create the images which can be printed out onto individual sheets. Then use the LO Label to "Choose one of the diagrams of red and green balls. Then glue it underneath this sticker and then write as much as you can about that diagram using the language on the prompt cards." Afterwards use the WS with the class. Use the BallsQuestion.PPTx to go through the answers. Get several students to each write their answers on the powerpoint (on the IWB)