A number of activities to consolidate rules when working with directed numbers. A good starter activity to use is an addition pyramid starting with some negative numbers As a plenary I ask the students to tell me where they started and why....

An easy way to try to explain to students why 'minus minus' actually means 'plus'. With thanks for the idea to Craig Barton.

A 2 page, easily customisable taboo starter / plenary activity. Change the keyword and make the forbidden words as hard or easy as you need to suit the group. 32 cards should be enough!

A complete unit of work covering averages from a table, estimated average, cumulative frequency and box plos

A lesson to introduce Quadratic sequences as part of the new 9-1 GCSE Content. I approach this topic by getting the students to generate n squared, 2n squared etc and find the second level difference for themselves rather than demonstrating this from the outset.

A revision PowerPoint designed for KS4 students. The starter concerns the product rule which is now included in the 9-1 scheme. The lesson progresses through basic completion of trees to wordy "without replacement" style questions. A simple plenary to draw out a misconception and to reinforce multiplication of independent events.

A complete lesson on direct proportion including a starter and some GCSE style questions.

A complete lesson on solving equations, with a literacy element in the worksheet. The starter gets students to form expressions of equal value which is the basis of how you can demonstrate solving, and then some useful ways to explain using bags of sweets and loose sweets!

An initial lesson on Straight Line Graphs - lots of discussion and drawing of lines so students should make the link between gradient / intercept

Suitable for KS4 or able KS3 student this is an introduction to probability, with a discussionon the probability scale, through the basics of Tree usage, right upto using a tree for "without replacement" questions. There are opportunities for discussion and extension within the worksheet materials

An investigative lesson where students can "discover" Pythagoras' theorem. Note - you will need to give each group of students a large number of accurately cut squares eg 6 x 6, 9 x 9 which I have not supplied. With prompting students should be able to establish and generalise not only that when the three squares form a right angled triangle, then when they dont form a right angle what this means with regards to the opposite angle!

A nice notebook file to help students remember exact values of Trig for New GCSE content from 2015

A number of Notebook files to teach all aspects of algebraic fractions, plus a couple of worksheets. As always, If it saves you time and effort, please leave a review!

This is an excellent trading game activity to be run after teaching students geometric constructions (check out my FREE carousel lesson) Read the lesson plan carefully for the extra equipment needed. For the money I simply used monopoly money templates but I cannot upload those here for copyright reasons

To use this lesson you will need a decent sized quantity of multi-link cubes or similar for the "Chocolate Factory" - the worksheet has two routes depending on how confident the students are at converting each type of fraction.

A notebook file for GCSE students detailing how to find the area / volume of similar shapes

Upto two lessons worth of work on simplifying expressions involving Indices. By the end of these lessons students should be able to simplify multiple terms.

A way of combining recognising types of number for lower ability students in KS4 or KS3 with the new Venn Diagrams element of the KS4 maths curriculum. You may also need some bingo books to use as a plenary activity for this lesson - see my Primes Bingo Resource.

A lesson to help explain solving equations where the subject appears twice using bags of sweets. A simple differentiated worksheet for students to practice with, where some of the answers are negative / fractional

A comprehensive booklet and series of activities for students to draw and discover the main angle facts surrounding parallel lines, with plenty of practice. It would be useful if students had some form of A/B/C/D voting system for this lesson