I provide comprehensive worksheets to revise a particular topic (always with answers included) as well as extension materials, for pupils ranging from age about 11 to 16+.
All of my premium resources have a UK and US version.
I provide comprehensive worksheets to revise a particular topic (always with answers included) as well as extension materials, for pupils ranging from age about 11 to 16+.
All of my premium resources have a UK and US version.
Practice multiplying and dividing
- first of all 10, 100, 1000 etc.
- then by 20, 300, 4000 etc.
- then using decimals, e.g. 1.3 x 300
A series of worksheets revising these basic skills, and a Power Point for revision
Full solutions included for all the worksheets.
A bountiful set of resources to help teach the topics below:
Block 1 - rounding, converting units, area and volume, time, tables and graphs, frequency tables
Block 2 - fractions, decimals, hire purchase, negative numbers, coordinates, money, algebra, probability
Block 3 - equations, types of number, fractions
(Block 4 - powers and roots, enlargement and reduction)
(Block 5)
Disclaimer - although this is complete for Blocks 1 to 3 the last two blocks aren't finished.
A fun activity to be done alone or in pairs. The first puzzle is easier (no subtracting negatives) and the second one includes subtracting negatives.
Based on original from eam_larkin.
A Powerpoint presentation I used to introduce a class of smart 16 year olds to some of the simple visual aspects of Topology, with plenty of pictures, strange facts, and links to videos.
This is a free-standing resource on dividing to get a decimal answer.
It involves questions like 15 ÷ 2 and 4.8 ÷ 3 up to things like 396 ÷ 400
It's taken from a Murder Mystery Package I wrote hence it includes a small riddle element at the end. There are two levels of difficulty (A is easier than B) that both have the same solution.
Full solutions included.
Extra resources for this SQA course:
- a guide to conducting six experiments and some example data
- a guide to hypothesis tests including Excel spreadsheets to work on
- some example experimental data and the output of applying statistical tests to it
This is an investigation into the different uses of stones and pounds (UK), pounds (USA) and kilograms (Europe) for weighing people. By the end pupils should be able to convert between the units effectively.
Skills used:
- Mental arithmetic
- Converting between units
- Rounding (the conversion numbers are approximate only)
Full solutions provided on the Power Points.
A collection of useful resources for preparing pupils for the Finance part of National 4 Lifeskills.
Includes revision materials, a practice test, and a resit test if required.
A bumper collection of resources for Factorizing Quadratics, including various activities and games and plenty of practice questions, which also include the other types of factorising required for KS4 or National 5 in Scotland.
- Jokes and riddles for factorising trinomials
- Catchphrase for factorising trinomials
- Quadratic problems for real life problems, with trinomials, completing square and finding roots
- Extra questions, with five pages of simple factorisation, difference of squares, trinomials and problem solving
All provided with answers
If everyone has to keep two metres apart, how many people can you fit in a room?
This is a series of five challenges, each involving a room more difficult than the one before. Although it is not obvious to begin with, pupils will need to use Pythagoras to check that their people are all at least two metres apart.
Full solutions included.
A series of worksheets revising negative numbers.
- addition and subtraction
- subtracting negative numbers
- multiplying and dividing
- all operations, with fractions and decimals
Full solutions provided.
Tired of BODMAS? Try some exciting challenges!
The first involves solving some problems and getting some letters, unscrambling them to find a city. Then you can make up your own.
The second is dome tricky expressions.
The third explores and unusual relationship between squares and cubes, which only works if you get your BODMAS correct.
This project gives pupils some real life houses from around the world to practice finding the area and perimeter of.
The package includes an introductory Power Point then a series of tasks, culminating in designing their own shelter.
Skills used:
- Area
- Perimeter
- Units
- Scale drawing
- Budgeting
Full solutions included.
A fun lesson that introduces Graph Theory through the example of Facebook.
The Powerpoint introduces it and then the worksheet lets them practice.
Key terms learned are: edges, vertices, degree, connected.
Six challenges showing where Pi turns up unexpectedly
Easy (Secondary School) - Simplifying fractions, Square root of two
Medium (GCSE level) - Fibonacci numbers and area of polygons
Hard (A level) - Probability theory, Area of a circle
A series of worksheets on the following topics. The first three are easier (age 11/12 or S1 in Scotland), the second three harder (age 12/13 or S2 in Scotland)
#1 - algebra, percentage, area, perimeter, indices, primes
#2 - fractions, substitution, negatives, percentages, Pythagoras, rounding, area
#3 - simplifying, polygons, substitution, percentages, rounding
#4 - algebra, sequences, volume, percentages, ratio, DST, standard form
#5 - angles, area, percentages
#6 - fractions, angles, polygons, Pythagoras, area, volume, circles
Included with solutions
A Powerpoint with questions and answers, alongside video solutions.
The following binomial questions are solved:
finding exact probabilities using the formula
finding more than or equal probabilities using hte data booklet
solving large problems using the normal approximation
How should you stack blocks to get the maximum overhang? This can be viewed as a centre of mass problem.
This worksheet takes you through questions to learn about a good solution, then explores some alternatives.