I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
I taught in a range of schools for many years before moving into FE, where I found creative and imaginative approaches just as rewarding with adults. Most of my resources are concerned with giving control to the learner, through a range of methods. Some are great for just giving them experience of examination questions, and the chance to discuss these with other learners. I now concentrate on spreading the range of creations from UK KS1 to KS4, and across the Common Standards.
I've made blank grids and some with some bits already shaded - complete for reflective symmetry and rotational symmetry, and make up some of your own.
Good for fun and display, and hopefully learning.
All in Word, so feel free to edit.
Ten illustrated muliple-choice questions on congruence, similarity and enlargement, with answers. Always good in the classroom as a refresher from the previous lesson or as a quick plenary.
Plus a version for the learners to complete on their own, thanks to HBeath who revised it for individual use.
Two activities - use code to do calculations, and match symbols to definitions and meanings. Simple activities to reinforce connection between image and function.
I teach 16 plus learners in a thirty or so week programme for GCSE - some retake and some new learners. What I have done here is put the Edexcel Linear A new scheme into the weekly slots, and devided all the criteria/spec statements into Aims and Objectives. I wouldn't expect anyone to follow the same order, or keep my jokes, but please copy slides as you want.
Inspectors love to see the aims pasted up, so I use PowerPoint.
Five exercises embracing Pythagoras theorem and sine, cosine and tangent as applied to right-angled triangles. Multiple choice quizzes for recap, revision or homework, in Word and PDF. All mistakes are mine, and please report to me if you find any!
Modular exams are now banned in the UK, but old papers are a wonderful mine of questions and styles. These are from real papers, and I've cut each paper in half to make short starters or end-of-lesson quick revision sessions.
Sarah needed a simple activity to remind her functional skills learners of the names of plane and solid shapes, so I quickly made this.
The plan is to show the name and the properties, and the learners sketch the shape.
Unfortunately I couldn't get the animation to work, so I've built up the slides to show possible results.
You can easily remove the properties - change as you like.
I've lots more stuff on TES on plane and solid shapes, if you look at my shop.
Plus the net of a box. The plan is to get the learners to adapt this to make a box to hold four cup-cakes.
And an activity of making a box to hold cup-cakes.
Enjoy.
The National Curriculum in maths for Years 3 to 6 in Word documents. Full specifications, plus all attainment targets in tables.
Seventeen different files for flexible planning of Years 3 - 6 maths National Curriculum. All in Word for ease of editing.
Statutory requirements, both as list and a table for recording progress etc.
Notes and non-statutory guidance to keep as an appendix.
Full specs as one long continuous document, again, in Word for cutting and pasting where needed.
Full set of resources to cover types of number for mathematics national curriculum in Year 5. Great for preparation for SATs in Year 6, or revision at KS3.
Four clear PowerPoints with lots of questions and exercises, all with answers.
Specifications:
‘Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers.’
I’ve tried the files myself on a different computer, and had to adjust the size of text on four or five slides, but very easy to do. And because not all systems work the same I’ve included a PDF of each of the presentations - even easier to show and will always be as intended.
Specs Year 4'Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value.'
Year 5 'Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.'
Thirty slides on an animated PowerPoint to introduce recognition of Roman numerals, and explore the advantage of Arabic numerals.
Plus lots of activities/worksheets, including Emperors' reigns, Roman roads, Olympiads, Children's TV (years), and answers.
All great fun, and could be cross-curricular.
Maths KS3 or KS4 revision. Trigonometric ratios, moving from tan to sine and cosine.
Everything you need for a full lesson or two to develop trigonometry from the tangent ratio to sine and cosine.
Let the learners tackle the activities, or guide them through with PowerPoint presentations.
Presentations, worksheets, activities and solutions.
Please leave comments, suggestions or corrections.
Fractions addition and subtraction with different denominators. KS2 Year 6, but great for revision in KS3, and essential for foundation GCSE, and not a few higher candidates would benefit too.
Warm up worksheet that asks the learners to find common multiples and common factors, through word questions.
Colourful presentation covering the definitions of a fraction, and why the numerator has to be the same. One example, and then a small selection for the learners to find the lowest common denominator.
Finally a worksheet for the learners to try out, or revise, these new skills.
Does not include addition of mixed numbers - all simple results less than one.
All worksheets in Word and PDF, and all answers included! The presentation has been updated to include an older version of PowerPoint, a revised v2 which might fit better, and a PDF version which will work on any system.
Year 6 specs say:
‘use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
add and subtract fractions with different denominators’
Key Stage 3 mathematics specs:
Standard Form KS3
• interpret and compare numbers in standard form A×10n, 1≤A
Two sides of data, for positive and negative indices, of science data to change between ordinary numbers and standard form.
Great for revision for GCSE classes.
Answers included!
KS3 Presentation warm up, two more sequences sets on PowerPoint, and two worksheets, the second quite challenging. Plus a ‘sticks and dots’ pattern set with lots of pictures.
• generate terms of a sequence from either a term-to-term or a position-to-term rule
• recognise arithmetic sequences and find the nth term
• recognise geometric sequences and appreciate other sequences that arise.
And all good for lower tier at GCSE.
KS3/KS4
‘Derive and use the sum of angles in a triangle and use it to deduce the angle sum in any polygon, and to derive properties of regular polygons.’
A simple example of a triangle sum proof, an investigation into angle sums in both PowerPoint and Word, for classwork or individual work, and plenty of questions for learners to try. Plus a PowerPoint illustrating a variety of tessellation for learners to consider the geometry involved, and hence deduce necessary angle properties.
Common Core Standards
Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right
triangles
6. Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are
properties of the angles in the triangle, leading to definitions of
trigonometric ratios for acute angles.
Everything you need to deliver a full lesson (or two) to introduce trigonometry through similar triangles and the tangent function. Presentation, activities, worksheets, along with answers, covering all aspects of the Common Core Standards.
Please leave comments, suggestions or corrections.
