Circular Task worksheet with a variety of activities for L5 / L6 students to complete, including Writing Expressions Substituting Values Collecting Like Terms General questions about algebra eg...why do we write in alphabetical order. I let students tackle questions in any order then tell me which question was the hardest for them.

A nice open ended worksheet for L6/7 students to recap Graphs at the end of a topic. Students can start at any point on the wheel according to their confidence levels Starts at plotting from a table of values, through calculating Gradients, then Gradient intercept richt upto finding an equation given tow co-ordinates.

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....

Group Challenge Lesson on Area, Volume etc. Students work in groups of 3/4. Collective memory style task to start, then answer questions...submit codes on sheet. Review three times during lesson. Self assessment towards end of lesson whilst you check the scores...plenary..review their self assessment and any questions that proved difficult to answer Top Tip: Freeze your IWB or hide excel as you enter the scores to build the suspense and review progress after each time you mark.

A set of activity sheets and presentation/lesson for KS3 students to cover the properties of quadrilaterals. Explains line / rotational symmetry, and how/why we mark equal angles, equal and parallel sides. The plenary works as a 'mystery' and checks learning of students by getting them to ask questions that distinguish two shapes from each other.

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

1. You need 8 groups. 2. Start with Smart file, then open xls scoresheet 3. Hand out envelopes 4. Stop after 5 mins (freeze IWB) 5. Enter codes 1-3 and review progress - cells turn green if correct on xls 6. Allow 15 Mins 7. Enter codes 4-10 plus corrections 8. Allow 5-10 mins for corrections and final 3 q's 9. Take in scoresheets, students complete a self assessment of topic (levels, targets) 10. Present Results Plenary: open the box / review trickier questions (they will have some red against them!) - students reflect on targets and progress. Enjoy

Useful sheet to get students estimating the roots of integers other than perfect squares, through students knowledge of square numbers.Ask students to work in pairs or small groups. Also works well as a lead in to surds at ks4 *Update* the post it idea below works fantastically well, students can then rank the answers in terms of their closeness to the answer to further reinforce working with decimals.