I have been teaching MATHEMATICS (11-16) since 1990. I have regularly been commended on my classroom displays and the quality of my resources as I feel this enriches the student experience.
As a self-taught graphic designer I now produce professional quality materials for our academy/academy chain across all departments including posters/banners and promotional materials. I am currently working on updating some older resources as well as developing new ones!
I have been teaching MATHEMATICS (11-16) since 1990. I have regularly been commended on my classroom displays and the quality of my resources as I feel this enriches the student experience.
As a self-taught graphic designer I now produce professional quality materials for our academy/academy chain across all departments including posters/banners and promotional materials. I am currently working on updating some older resources as well as developing new ones!
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SEE MY OTHER DOMINO RELATED RESOURCES
Virtually Identical to my set of Ladybird Domino 0-0 to 10-10 resource but with Extra dominoes so that a full set of 0-0 to 12-12 would cover THE TWELVE DAYS of CHRISTMAS. So 91 Dominoes altogether.
Lots of opportunity to set differentiated tasks
IDEAS FOR USE ALSO IN PDF
You could even sing along to the domino you have or find ones that fit the song, as well as looking at all sorts of maths problems that could be weedled out of this topic.
How many birds in total?
How many men in total?
How many women in total?
Number patterns and sequences :
1 partridge on day one
1 partridge and 2 turtle doves on day 2
but thats 2 partridges and 2 turtle doves in total after 2 days …
and 5 partridges ,8 turtle doves, 9 french hens, 8 calling birds and 5 gold rings after 5 days etc etc etc
Perhaps could be used as a writing exercise in English.
OR Just use as normal dominoes
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I have produced a Prime Factor Banner/Poster **
that can also be used along side this activity as well as a
PRIME FACTOR FINDER PROGRAM that can be used for the answers on the whiteboard*
FOR USE WITH PRIME FACTORS.
CONTENTS:
A SET OF CARDS WITH NUMBERS 2-100 Aprrox 4.5cm x 4.5 cm each
All composite (non-primes) are in square boxes
Primes are in circles
A SET OF ALL THE PRIME NUMBER (VARIOUS QUANTITIES)
A SET OF INDICES (in hexagons)
Instructions
Pick a number - students have to make that number just using the prime cards
CAN BE USED CONSTRUCTING PRIME FACTOR TREES
OR
what works well if you put all the composite (non-prime cards in a bag) and then pick one out
OR
Use like a LUCKY DIP
Walk around class and get individual pupils/tables to pick one(or more) out of the bag.
PUPILS MAKE THEIR NUMBER(S) using their PRIME Number cards
Multiplication and Power/indices cards can also be used.
I have produced a Prime Factor Banner/Poster for Prime factors
that can also be used along side this activity as well as a
PRIME FACTOR FINDER PROGRAM that can be used for the answers on the whiteboard
INCLUDED:
This A3 GAME BOARD
(Looks great laminated)
Play/rules involve using
SQUARE and PRIME numbers and much more
PUPILS can also record what type/colour of squares they land on and tally/graph them
I am sure there are other uses the game could be used for.
RED squares have SQUARE NUMBERS
GREEN squares have PRIME NUMBERS and have People on:child, young adult, old adult
BLUE squares have TRIANGLE NUMBERS
ORANGE squares have some ATOMIC NUMBERS
PURPLE squares have PERFECT NUMBERS
YELLOW squares have INTERNATIONAL DIRECT-DIAL CODES(country indicated by flag)
PINK have related to MISCELLANEOUS FACTS about that number (some maths some ‘fun’
**ADVANCED VERSION available as a separate DOWNLOAD
his includes:
Rules for 2 different ways to play the game
Advanced 1 - Uses a SCORE CARD so the player can check off all the numbers they have landed on.
Each of these has a particular POINTS VALUE
BONUS points are awarded in certain conditions
THE POINTS TOTAL HAS THEN TO BE WORKED OUT
Advanced 2 - Uses a set of CARDS to COLLECT
(instead of the SCORE CARD)
Each of these cards have INFORMATION about that particular number and includes maths,science and fun facts
BONUS points are awarded in certain conditions
THE POINTS TOTAL HAS THEN TO BE WORKED OUT
BY COUNTING THE NUMBER OF POINTS ON EACH CARD
ALSO INCLUDED: GAME RULES, SCORE CARD, SET OF CARDS FOR EACH NUMBER (+BONUS CARDS)
SET OF A5 mini-posters for SQUARE,TRIANGLE,PRIME and PERFECT NUMBERS + ALL INDIVIDUAL CLIP-ART**
A HIGHLY SCAFFOLDED ACTIVITY in which the students are guided to work in a methodical/systematic way to find the solutions.
Each puzzle is based on a 5x4 rectangular grid that, in most cases, student only have to fit 3 unknown pentominoes in to the grid as one of them is shown in position.
They should be familiar with checking for rotation and reflection symmetry as this is very important.
THis includes:
An instruction sheets.
9 Challenges across 8 Worksheets
Blank Grids
Full solutions in both Colour and B/W
Solutions for each individual pentomino
ALL the artwork I used to make this resource.
Perhaps this could lead to some data analysis work.
I have sets of PENTOMINOES, FREE to DOWNLOAD that match the colours used in this resource
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12501085
How many time do other gear(s) turn when the initial gear turns and which direction do they turn?
Next level up from GEARS 2A - this time the direction of turn is required and some turns expressed as fractions.
Hopefully student will be starting to get the idea that it is only the FIRST and LAST gears that need to be considered in calculations as intermediate/inbetween gears do not make any difference.
2 worksheets 10 questions
Gear clip-art and question images are included for use in your other documents.
It is an Adobe Flash file but even if you don’t have this installed it works in Internet Explorer (Right click and open with IE)
It is a 2 player game that I have used as a starter (mainly around November 5th in the UK)
OR EVEN BASED an ENTIRE LESSON AROUND IT
I give the pupils the choice of going first or second. Either me Vs 1 pupil or me Vs the class
As I know the strategy that you have to get to 3,9 or 15 first to make sure you it doesn’t matter who goes first as I usually win and it makes them more eager to have another go.
It really gets the pupils fired up and after a few games someone might notice what the strategy is or rather part of it.
They’ll probably notice first that you alwasy get to 15 first so get them to explain why.
(it’s usually “…well if we add 1 you’ll add 5 or if we add 4 you’ll add 2…” etc
Get them to think about what they have just said 1+5,2+4 …so its something to do with 6
15 is 6 less than 21 … perhaps you can use this knowledge to make sure you get to 15 first etc etc
I have gone on to get them to investigate other target numbers eg 47 find the first number you need to get to
47 /6 is 7 remainder 5 so you need to go first and say 5 if the next player adds 2 you need to add 4 (2+4=6)
What would happen if you could place up to 10 barrels and target number was 100?
I think this will be a very challenging but useful activity
Answers included or should that be nswrs ncldd.
A great activity at any time of the year BASED ON THE KEY STAGE 3 GENERAL SPELLING LIST
perhaps try to complete it over the Christmas Holidays
It could be set as a competition -individual/small group/ table
Each pupil could be given a different set of questions.
A table could be given all 10 sheets or all the same sheet and work collaboratively
Lots of possible variations
Please lets me know how it goes.
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A PDF file that had Ladybird Dominoes from 0-0 to 10-10 (66 dominoes over 11 pages)
Normal set of dominoes 0-0 to 6-6 just print off pages 1 to 5
A very good activity for learning practicing number bonds to 10 (see image)
or just used to play normal dominoes.
Other possible ideas are outlined in the PDF.
I have printed off a few sets on card and laminated them and are a big hit with the students
Each domino is 6cmx12cm at 100% size (print off at lower % if smaller size is required)
I have also provided these as unnumbered CLIP-ART(PDF) to use in you own WORKSHEETS, POWERPOINTS or NOTEBOOK files etc.
Each questions comes with its own working/answers also as clipart linked by file name
e.g. ASSET 1 / ASSET 1 ANS etc
The questions vary in difficulty and include 2D and 3D examples and in some will need other skills such as circumference of a circle etc.
I hope they are useful
A set of mathematical logic/reasoning puzzles involving gears.
4 worksheet - 7 top level questions with 74 subquestions.
Includes: Files as PDF and WORD
also POWERPOINT with the questions on for class discussion
plus All the questions and individual gears as CLIP-ART for use in you own documents.
Logic/reasoning skills activity - Addition and subtraction skills up to 18
36 Questions (6 Questions per worksheet) that can be done as worksheet or cut into individual questions to stick into books
ANSWERS INCLUDED
Also see my MONSTER MATHS 1 and MONSTER MATHS 2 AND JUNIOR PUZZLE LEVEL 1, 3 and 4 uploads
Logic/reasoning skills activity - Addition and subtraction skills up to 18
36 Questions (6 Questions per worksheet) that can be done as worksheet or cut into individual questions to stick into books
ANSWERS INCLUDED
Also see my MONSTER MATHS 1 and MONSTER MATHS 2 uploads as well as Junior Levels 2, 3 and 4
I have only used this in an after-school club. The students appeared to like the challenge of drawing the best picture.
To use it Adobe Flash Player will need to be installed on the computer (most have it automatically installed) and may work if opened in Internet Explorer
Simple to use - Arrow Keys
Change colour ,speed and size of pen by clicking with mouse.
HARD to get a good picture ( as I suppose an Etch-A-Sketch is).
It anyone wants to save and print one they’ve done you’ll have to ‘screen-shot’ it. ( but then you couldn’t keep an Etch-A-Sketch picture)
Please comment if you find a use for it
Find 2 of the angles in a triangle using their ratios given the third. Use the worksheets but I can see the CLIP-ART probably being more useful as all 144 questions are included as separate files that can be used in your own worksheets/Powerpoints/Whiteboard files.
Find the angles ion a straight line using algebraic information. Use the worksheets but I can see the CLIP-ART probably being more useful as all 108 questions are included as separate files that can be used in your own worksheets/Powerpoints/Whiteboard files.
3 worksheets - 24 questions. Complete the fraction diagrams and equations.
The diagrams give scaffolding to working with equivalent fractions.
I had also added the 700+ fraction diagrams I have created to make my fractions resources. for use in staff worksheets/ PowerPoints etc
SEARCH-FIND-COUNT INSECTS(1) - COUNTING + ADDITION + NUMBER BONDS + ANSWERS + CLIPART
Count the 11 different insects in the picture
I have not tried this as I am a secondary teacher but I was trying to come up with an idea for a primary college that would make counting ‘more interesting’ .
I thought that the main image may be laminated to allow pupils to use a whiteboard marker to cross off/ circle the ones they have found.
A tally chart(s) also could be used.
I have included all the insects I have drawn as individual clip-art so that you could use them for you own PowerPoints, Notebook files etc
If it a popular/useful resource, I may make a series with different topics/themes.
Please let me know what you think!
Roll 2 dice, MULTIPLY together the scores and cover up the product in the grid.
The first player to get 4 counters in a line wins!
If you haven’t got any counters, small card squares will suffice.
PDF and JPG files supplied (use the JPG in your own documents if needed)
4 in a line ADDITION also available.