I have been a teacher for 20 years and have made a lot of resources that have worked in my classroom. You can find them on Tes . I have also made some Boomcards which you can preview on the linktree link below.
I have been a teacher for 20 years and have made a lot of resources that have worked in my classroom. You can find them on Tes . I have also made some Boomcards which you can preview on the linktree link below.
Unlock the Mystery of Numbers with these editable Place Value and Number Riddles! Challenge your students and ignite their mathematical curiosity with this engaging resource, designed for Primary Maths: Key Stage 2 Year 3-6 and also suitable for Functional Skills L1 Maths students. While younger learners enhance their foundational skills, older students benefit from a resource that adds a layer of intrigue to their math practice.
Key Features:
► Brain-Teasing Riddles:
Immerse your students in a world of mathematical mystery with a collection of place value and number riddles. Each slide presents questions related to a specific number, encouraging students to apply their knowledge in a fun and interactive way.
► Whole-Class Engagement:
Utilize this resource as a whole-class activity, fostering collaborative learning as students use mini whiteboards to solve the riddles together. It’s an excellent way to promote teamwork and friendly competition.
►Differentiated Levels of Challenge:
Tailored for diverse skill levels, the slides are differentiated into varying levels of challenge, ensuring that every student is appropriately engaged and motivated to excel.
► Versatile Presentation Options:
The animated slides offer flexibility – reveal clues one by one or print the cards for a tactile, hands-on experience. Adapt the resource to suit your teaching style and the unique needs of your students.
► Answers Included:
Facilitate easy assessment with included answers, providing a quick way to check understanding and reinforce correct solutions.
How to Use:
► Whole-Class Engagement:
Dive into a captivating class-wide adventure, encouraging active participation and fostering a positive math culture.
► Differentiation Made Easy:
Tailor the challenge level to individual student needs, ensuring that every learner is appropriately stretched and supported.
►Perfect for Planning:
Use these riddles as an exciting addition to your lesson plans, providing both structure and a touch of mystery to your math sessions.
Elevate your math lessons with this resource, offering a blend of challenge and excitement that transforms learning into an adventure. Grab your Place Value and Number Riddles now and witness your students unravel the mysteries of mathematics with enthusiasm!❤❤
Suitable for GCSE Maths Foundation and Functional Skills Maths. This
rounding Decimal practice is designed to assess students knowledge of rounding decimals to a given number of decimal places. It has a barbers theme which fits into the idea of giving the numbers a trim.
25 Question slides in total. Answers included.
Great a s a quiz or a plenary. Questions displayed on screen, learners answer on mini whiteboards or paper, then answer shown on screen.
Suitable for New Functional Skills Maths. An 11 page addition and subtraction workbook with an answer booklet. The workbook includes methods for caculating additiona nd subtraction using calculator and non-calculator methods. As well as sets of calculator and non-calculator questions for students to work on. Answers included so suitable for home learning
A set of loop cards (20 cards) on converting fractions to decimals. The cards can either be used by individuals, small pairs or even whole class. I like to get learners into pairs and get them to race against each other to see who puts their cards in the correct order first. Solution included.
A lesson on probability using the Champions League Final. This lesson aims to introduce or review constructing tree diagrams and using them to calculate the probability of two or more independent events occurring. The powerpoint includes methods and worked examples. There is a worksheet of tree diagrams using the same theme of Champions League Final as well
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GCSE Foundation Maths/Functional Skills. 12 questions on equations with one variable that learners answer on a clock face. I set a timer of 30 minutes for the activity, learners have to complete their revision clocks in that time limit. I print the questions out of A4 paper and the blank clocks out on A3 paper. The learners pair up and answer the questions. Works well for revision. Clock Template included.
This set of 16 Taskcards provide the perfect opportunity for students to practise using commonly confused homophones. Suitable for Primary School English.
This interactive powerpoint asks students to use the words the words ‘where’, ‘were’, ‘wear’, ‘we’re, to complete sentences.
Kids are asked to fill in the blank in sentences using the correct form of these different homophones.
They will automatically be told if right or wrong. Powerpoint includes Family Fortunes sound effects and the answers will move to the right place in the sentence when clicked.
This Grammar Interactive Powerpointt is super easy to use and simple to slot into your learning plan.
You could use them as a starter activity. Or you could send it out as homework tasks after a homophones lesson. Can be used on a Smartboard or as a revision exercise sent through Teams or Google classroom.
Fun percentage of an amount codebreaker. Learners answer percentage of an amount questions to reveal a maths joke. The joke is How do you make seven even? Remove the s. Fun way to get learners to practice percentage of amounts on a calculator. Solution provided.
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A Maths casino game which I have found to be a fun way of engaging students in revision lessons. The students look forward to these lessons and see them as a fun lesson . They are a great way of getting students to learn and work together.
This activity is aimed at GCSE Foundation and Functional Skills Maths Level 2. It includes questions on mean, median, mode and range and also explaining why a certain average was used and what the range tells us.
Functional Skiills Examiner Reports have identified that learners are losing marks by not been able to explain why they used an average and what the range shows.
Answers are included on the slides.
Instructions:
Print off some money, I have included £5, £10 and £20 notes for printing.
Arrange students in groups and give each group £100
Students bet between £5-20 on each topic (before seeing the question)
I write the students team names on whiteboard and then get them to stick their money bets on the whiteboard with bluetac or to write up their bets
Learners will double their money with a correct answer or lose it for a wrong answer.
An 11 page workbook suitable for GCSE Foundation Maths and Functional Skills Maths. Workbook includes methods and questions.
The workbook includes a range of tasks on tally charts, pictographs and bar charts. There are also tips, diagrams and tables that will enhance the learning experience for your students. With the methods included in the worksheet this should aid students ability to work independently.
ANSWERS INCLUDED.
Students can work in pairs or individually to solve the Reverse percentages in this collaborative and active learning “Around the Clock” card activity. Each partner gets a clock with 12 unique reverse percentage questions to solve and an answer sheet
Each partner’s clock problems are different but the standard of question and answer are similar, encouraging collaboration and teamwork. If one student gets stuck, the other can help.
Students paste their START card at 12 o’clock, solve the question and find the solution on the top of another card. They then paste this next card at 1 o’clock and solve it. Each answer students find will lead to the next problem to solve.
Students solve all 12 rverse percentage problems until they get back to 12 o’clock. If all problems have been solved correctly, the solution to the problem at 11 o’clock will be found at the top of their START card.
The activity is self-checking, providing students with instant feedback. The final product is a colorful example of their ability to solve reverse percentage questions
A Maths casino game which I have found to be a fun way of engaging students in revision lessons. The students look forward to these lessons and see them as a fun lesson . They are a great way of getting students to learn and work together.
This activity is aimed at GCSE Foundation and Functional Skills Maths Level 2. It includes questions on area, perimeter of rectangles, triangles, compound shapes and circle as well as the volume of cuboids and cylinders. Answers are included on the slides.
Instructions:
Print off some money, I have included £5, £10 and £20 notes for printing.
Arrange students in groups and give each group £100
Students bet between £5-20 on each topic (before seeing the question)
I write the students team names on whiteboard and then get them to stick their money bets on the whiteboard with bluetac or to write up their bets
Learners will double their money with a correct answer or lose it for a wrong answer.
A Pancake Day themed worksheet on solving Linear Simultaneous Equations. 10 questions including questions with common co-efficents and questions without common co-efficents. A fun way of teaching, assessing or reviewing this topic aon Pancake Day.
Practise plotting coordinates in all four quadrants with a Pancake Day theme with this fun activity. When the coordinates are joined up, they make a Pancake Day message
Fun way of assessing learners ability to identify the properties of 2D shapes. Learners choose 9 numbers from a grid and then answer the questions displayed on screen. Learners then mark off their bingo card. Winner is the person who gets a full house. I usually team this up with mini whiteboards so I can see who is getting the questions right. Useful starter or plenary.
Resource contains the question presentation with answers and a bingo card that can be printed off for each learner.
Master essential non-fiction reading skills with this BoomCard deck based on a short text about The Great Fire of London. Suitable for Primary 1 to 3
In this Deck you will find a short non fiction text on The Great Fire of London and 13 activity cards with True or False questions, multiple choice , fill in the missing word and drag and drop questions based on the text. Learners can click a link to return to the text to reread throughout the deck.
These Boomcards work well as sell-paced work on learners devices or as a whole class activity on Interactive Whiteboard
You do not need to buy a Boom Cards membership!! Just create a free account with the link provided and this resource is yours to use in class on IWB or to share with students to use on their devices. Instructions re provided in the the document that is downloaded with this resource.
How to use:
After purchase click on the REDEEM link provided in the download to access the Boom Cards™deck.
This will redirect you to the Boom Learning™ website.
Select the ‘Redeem’ option.
This will prompt you to set up an account if you don’t already have one
If you already have an account simply sign in to access your new deck of Boom Cards™
World Cup Maths: Currency Exchange
Football World Cup themed worksheet suitable for GCSE Foundation Maths students. Lots of practice with exchange rates and working out the expenses of a trip to the World Cup. Ideal to engage football fans with the World Cup coming up in November.
6 pages of World Cup themed Maths questions. Answers included.
Tasks include
Working out time to leave house in order to catch the flight
Working out luggage size, involves changing imperial to metric measures
Calculating time difference
Exchanging currencies
Calculating ticket prices
Excellent World Cup themed Maths activity for your students
Give your students the opportunity to review and consolidate their knowledge of synonyms with this fun interactive matching game. There are 15 Activity cards in the Boom Deck. The game presents students with jumbled pairs of synonyms that must correctly be sorted and matched. This task is best suited to students in Primary Years 3 and 4
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Your child can play this interactive matching game to learn and practise identifying synonyms, which are words that have the same or a similar meaning. For example, ‘big’ and ‘large’ are synonyms because they can be substituted within a piece of writing without changing the meaning. A good understanding and sound knowledge of synonyms is a great strength for students in supporting their writing.
You do not need to buy a Boom Cards membership!! Just create a free account with the link provided and this resource is yours to use in class on IWB or to share with students to use on their devices. Instructions re provided in the the document that is downloaded with this resource.
How to use:
After purchase click on the REDEEM link provided in the download to access the Boom Cards™deck.
This will redirect you to the Boom Learning™ website.
Select the ‘Redeem’ option.
This will prompt you to set up an account if you don’t already have one
If you already have an account simply sign in to access your new deck of Boom Cards™
Among Us themed Maths Murder Mystery on Finding the perimeter of squares, rectangles, compound shapes and triangles including equilateral and isosceles. Suitable for GCSE Foundation Maths 5-1, and Functional Skills Maths Level 2. A FUN and engaging way of teaching and assessing perimeter.
This math murder mystery will engage students by taking them on a journey to solve perimeter problems. Students solve a murder by answering questions correctly.
The worksheet has an Among Us theme to appeal to learners.
SUITABLE FOR HOME SCHOOLING as ANSWERS included.
Give your students the opportunity to review and consolidate their knowledge of antonyms with this fun interactive matching game. There are 15 Activity cards in the Boom Deck. The game presents students with jumbled pairs of antonyms that must correctly be sorted and matched. This task is best suited to Primary school students in Years 3 to6
Check out a PREVIEW here
Your child can play this interactive matching game to learn and practise identifying antonyms , which are words that have the opposite meaning. .
Antonyms are words or phrases that mean the opposite of another word or phrase. A good way of testing if a word is an antonym is by replacing your original word with it in a sentence. If the sentence makes sense but is also the opposite of what it said originally, then congratulations, you’ve found an antonym! A good understanding and sound knowledge of antonyms is a great strength for students in supporting their writing.
You do not need to buy a Boom Cards membership!! Just create a free account with the link provided and this resource is yours to use in class on IWB or to share with students to use on their devices. Instructions re provided in the the document that is downloaded with this resource.
How to use:
After purchase click on the REDEEM link provided in the download to access the Boom Cards™deck.
This will redirect you to the Boom Learning™ website.
Select the ‘Redeem’ option.
This will prompt you to set up an account if you don’t already have one
If you already have an account simply sign in to access your new deck of Boom Cards™
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