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Taught for 15+ years. Started within Yorkshire now enjoying the delights of International teaching. Starting to enjoy making resources

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Taught for 15+ years. Started within Yorkshire now enjoying the delights of International teaching. Starting to enjoy making resources
KS3 Christmas relay
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KS3 Christmas relay

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16 question relay task aimed at KS3 pupils based around Christmas. Covers a variety of topics, good as a revision fun lesson for the end of term whilst still having maths in it. easy to adapt answers included hope you enjoy, please leave feedback
Algebraic Sequences and series
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Algebraic Sequences and series

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Aimed at stronger pupils on GCSE/IGCSE and pupils starting year 12. Probably enough content for 2 lessons. covers arithmetic means, nth terms, recursive and explicit terms Also delves into sum of an arithmetic series (without referring to sigma, I intend to bring that in after geometric series have been done) all answers are provided hope you enjoy , please leave feedback for more of my resources check out the shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/commuter (have amended an error on this and added an extra discussion point)
18 end of year Maths activities KS3/4
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18 end of year Maths activities KS3/4

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18 activities in total all in the 1 place to save searching Relays, quizzes all with a strong maths element treasure hunts activities for more go to the shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/commuter
Start of year Maths pack
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Start of year Maths pack

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mixture of lessons and topics to start the year off in KS3 Maths including ratios, fractions, brackets, angles and straight lines
45 Maths KS3/4 Multiple choice Tasks
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45 Maths KS3/4 Multiple choice Tasks

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45 AFL tasks at less than 20p a task Ideal for interactive whiteboards voting systems and mini whiteboard activities. Superb value hope you enjoy
Factor theorem 2 - fully factorising polynomials
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Factor theorem 2 - fully factorising polynomials

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Second part of Factor Theorem for my IGCSE Further pure maths, although easily adaptable for IB and A Level, this time on using the factor theorem when we have not been given any factor, before fully factorising by factorising a quadratic. Starter task reminds of using the factor theorem to show if (x-a) is a factor full examples given and follow up questions as well as evaluation tasks involving peer assessment. hope you enjoy, please leave feedback (next time I will do remainder theorem)
Multiple choice 17 - Inverse proportion
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Multiple choice 17 - Inverse proportion

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Another little activity for AFL, revision, starter or a plenary. Works well with mini whiteboards and adaptable to voting systems. Can easily be printed off for class use. Aimed at KS3 and KS4 multiple choice activity solving problems involving inverse proportion. Hope you find it useful Please leave feedback
Unlock the safe- Algebra and Geometry
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Unlock the safe- Algebra and Geometry

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Revision task aimed at KS3 and KS4 covering properties of shapes, areas, constructing equations, angle properties and solving equations. 2 different tasks on the powerpoint easy to print and cut out if you want individual work or to do on the IWB if you want whole class discussion. Many thanks to MC for their help with this please leave feedback Hope you find it useful
Truncation 1 - Truncate the number
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Truncation 1 - Truncate the number

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Truncate the number to the level of accuracy needed good as a starter or plenary task works well with the other 2 truncations tasks (premium) solutions given Feedback appreciated
Probability with a twist
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Probability with a twist

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I have taken some probability type questions (tree diagrams etc) and wrote them so that the key info is now hidden into revision questions. The task is still to calculate the probabilities but now with extra work Answers given Hope you enjoy please leave feedback
exponentials 3- e and continuous change
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exponentials 3- e and continuous change

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aimed at KS5 pupils, developed for my IB Standard Level class it covers the exponential function and continuous change. full worked examples and questions with answers included in the ppt works well with the other lessons on exponentials. hope you enjoy please leave feedback, cheers
Multiple Choice 8: nth term of a linear sequence
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Multiple Choice 8: nth term of a linear sequence

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Another little activity for AFL, revision or a plenary. Can be done with mini whiteboards and adaptable to voting systems Aimed at KS3 and KS4 multiple choice activity finding the nth term of a linear sequence. Hope you find it useful Please leave feedback
Applying trigonometric results
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Applying trigonometric results

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Aimed at SL IB but easily applicable to KS3 & 4 groups. Presentation is focused on 2 aspects, taking a trig result and using that to show what the other ratios would be (without a calculator). Secondly it looks at elevations and depressions. problems include having to recall without a calculator the values of common angles. questions and discussion points built into the presentation answers are included feel free to modify and improve Hope you enjoy and please leave feedback
Multiple choice 21 - Converting Radians to degrees
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Multiple choice 21 - Converting Radians to degrees

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Another little activity for AFL, revision, starter or a plenary. Works well with mini whiteboards and adaptable to voting systems. Can easily be printed off for class use. Aimed at KS4 and KS5 multiple choice activity converting radians to degrees. Hope you find it useful Please leave feedback
Multiple choice 20 - The distance between a pair of coordinates
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Multiple choice 20 - The distance between a pair of coordinates

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Another little activity for AFL, revision, starter or a plenary. Works well with mini whiteboards and adaptable to voting systems. Can easily be printed off for class use. Aimed at KS3/4 and KS5 multiple choice activity solving problems involving finding the length of a line segment between coordinates. Hope you find it useful Please leave feedback
Multiple choice 22 - Converting from degrees to radians
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Multiple choice 22 - Converting from degrees to radians

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Another little activity for AFL, revision, starter or a plenary. Works well with mini whiteboards and adaptable to voting systems. Can easily be printed off for class use. Aimed at KS4 and KS5 multiple choice activity converting degrees to radians. Hope you find it useful Please leave feedback
Multiple choice 33 - Percentages, what is the decimal multiplier
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Multiple choice 33 - Percentages, what is the decimal multiplier

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Another little activity for AFL, revision, starter or a plenary. Works well with mini whiteboards and adaptable to voting systems. Can easily be printed off for class use. Aimed at KS2, KS3 and KS4 multiple choice activity on decimal multipliers used for percentages. Hope you find it useful Please leave feedback
Treasure Hunt- Adding fractions
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Treasure Hunt- Adding fractions

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Treasure Hunt activity on adding fractions great as a starter activity or as an in lesson task. Works well with the other fractions treasure hunts. Great for KS3 and KS4 Printed on A4 portrait so easy to adapt to A5. Bright and colourful (yellow backgrounds) hope you enjoy Please leave feedback