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Features of my lesson plans for KS3 and KS4 maths include sub-dividing topics into steps so that students develop one skill at a time, colour coded diagrams and explanations, worked solutions and putting the maths into real-life contexts. I am also focusing on different types of problem-solving questions and on questions where different topics are combined, say shape and algebra, probability and algebra, proportion and area. I welcome feedback and am open to suggestions for new lesson topics.

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Features of my lesson plans for KS3 and KS4 maths include sub-dividing topics into steps so that students develop one skill at a time, colour coded diagrams and explanations, worked solutions and putting the maths into real-life contexts. I am also focusing on different types of problem-solving questions and on questions where different topics are combined, say shape and algebra, probability and algebra, proportion and area. I welcome feedback and am open to suggestions for new lesson topics.
Solving Circular Linear Equations Graphs
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Solving Circular Linear Equations Graphs

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The resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter and worked solutions to all the questions on the worksheet. Students learn how to solve simultaneous equations where one is linear and the other that of a circle USING GRAPHS. (There is another version using algebra). The worksheet is structured. Students are first given both line and circle, then one or the other and finally neither.
Functional Problems involving Area
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Functional Problems involving Area

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This resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. Students learn to tackle functional problems involving dividing one area by another. The contexts include finding the number and cost of tiles and the amount and cost of paint.
Functional Problems involving Volume
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Functional Problems involving Volume

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The resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes examples and worked solutions to all the questions on the worksheet. The functional problems involving volume include stacking smaller boxes in a larger box, finding into which category packages fall and evaluating cost.
Timetables
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Timetables

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This lesson is for KS4 students working towards the Foundation paper. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation show students how to interpret and use timetables. It also includes a starter and worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet.
Profit and Loss
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Profit and Loss

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This resource is for KS4 students preparing for the Foundation paper. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. Students learn how to subtract costs from revenue and to interpret the answer as profit or loss. The questions on the worksheet are structured from straightforward to more complex.
Comparing Full Prices
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Comparing Full Prices

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This resource is for KS4 students who are working towards the Foundation paper. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. Worked solutions to the worksheet are included. Students learn to compare prices by calculating the full price when offers involve instalments, discounts and prices are quoted before VAT is applied.
Comparing Two Offers
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Comparing Two Offers

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This resource is for low ability KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. the lesson presentation includes worked solutions to all the questions on the worksheet. Students first learn how to find unit costs in order to compare different offers. They then learn how to compare prices given for different numbers of kg and other units. Finally they learn how to compare special offers such as BOGOF.
Comparing Measurements (Foundation)
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Comparing Measurements (Foundation)

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This resource is for strong KS3 and any KS4 student working towards the Foundation paper. (There is a harder version 'Comparing Measurements). The lesson consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation has examples and worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. The lesson teaches students to compare measurements when the measurements are given in different units. Students learn how to compare measurements in different metric units, when one is in metric units and the other in imperial units, when time is given in different units and when comparing compound units
Comparing Prices in Different Currencies
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Comparing Prices in Different Currencies

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The resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a structured worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter and worked solutions to all the questions on the worksheet. The lesson starts with a revision of converting currencies, with an emphasis on whether to multiply or divide by the exchange rate. The lesson then continues to cover problems where one or two prices have to be converted using exchange rates so that all prices can be compared in the same currency.
Fraction and Percentage Discounts
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Fraction and Percentage Discounts

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This lesson is for KS4 students. Finding percentages and fractions of amounts are revised and then used to find the total costs of packages after fractional and percentage discounts have been subtracted. Worked solutions to the worksheet are included.
Hidden Simultaneous Equations
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Hidden Simultaneous Equations

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This resource is for KS4 students, who struggle with algebra. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter and worked solutions to all questions on the worksheet. The lessons teaches students how to solve problems involving two shopping baskets and their costs. The questions are NOT turned into algebraic equations. Instead students are taught how to solve the problems through argument. The lesson is structured, starting with questions where one basket has only one sort of item and ending with questions where both baskets need to be multiplied.
Utility Bills
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Utility Bills

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This resource is for KS4 students working towards the Higher paper. It consists of a lesson presentation and worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter and worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. The lesson is differentiated. It starts with using meter readings to find the amount of energy used and the cost of that energy. It then includes a standing charge and finally VAT on the total bill.
Missing Observation from the Mean
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Missing Observation from the Mean

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This resource is for KS3 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter and worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. The starter revises finding the mean from a set of observations. Students then learn how to find the missing observation using the mean that they are given. There are a couple of extension questions, including one for which students need to use all three averages to find a set of observations.
Deconstructing Frequency Tables to find Averages and Range
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Deconstructing Frequency Tables to find Averages and Range

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This lesson is for KS3 students. Before teaching students how to find the averages from frequency tables, I get them to deconstruct some tables, that is listing the raw data and using that raw data to find the averages and range. Worked solutions to the worksheet is included.
Identifying Parts of Circles
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Identifying Parts of Circles

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This resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. Worked solutions to the worksheet are included in the worksheet. I teach this lesson before teaching circle theorems. It teaches students to look at the diagrams more closely and identify particular arcs, radii, sectors, segments, reflex and non-reflex angles.
Probabilities and Two-way tables
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Probabilities and Two-way tables

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This resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter and worked solutions to all the questions on the worksheet. The starter is revision of completing two-way tables. Students then learn to find probabilities from two-way tables. They then learn how to construct two-way tables from text and then to find probabilities.
Mutually exclusive events
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Mutually exclusive events

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The resource is for KS4 students. It consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter, examples and worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. The lesson introduces the concept of mutually exclusive events. Students are shown how to determine whether two events are mutually exclusive or not. The questions involve rolling dice, spinning spinners and choosing marbles. There is a question where the sum of probabilities for two events proves that they are not exclusive.
Missing Probabilities Exhaustive Events
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Missing Probabilities Exhaustive Events

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This resource is for KS4 students. The resource consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. the presentation includes worked solutions to the questions on the worksheet. The lesson revises finding missing probabilities and takes students into the concept of exhaustive and non-exhaustive events.
Adding and Multiplying Probabilities
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Adding and Multiplying Probabilities

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This resource is for KS4 students. It follows on from ‘Listing Outcomes’. It consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter, examples and worked solutions to all questions on the worksheet. This lesson teaches KS4 students to list possible outcomes and to learn when to add probabilities and when to multiply the number of probabilities. The first questions on the worksheet are traditional spinner and dice type questions. The later questions are real-life situations.
Listing Outcomes
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Listing Outcomes

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This resource is for KS4 students. It consists of a lesson presentation and a worksheet. The lesson presentation includes a starter, examples and worked solutions to all questions on the worksheet. This lesson teaches KS4 students to list possible outcomes and to learn when to add the number of outcomes and when to multiply the number of outcomes. There is an extension exercise where students consider real-life situations where order may or may not matter.