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.
A set of 13 fun questions on a halloween theme, tailored to test
- decimals
- large numbers (million and billlion)
- problem solving.
Solutions included.
This is an extension of an easier Halloween maths Quiz on TES from rjcarter68, available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hallowe-en-maths-quiz-6121671
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.
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.
A teacher-led Powerpoint investigation into randomness to be done at the end of a topic about probability. The five short topics are
Pick a random number
Heads and Tails experiment
Lottery Random numbers
Digits of Pi
What is randomness?
The aim is for pupils to understand that ‘random’ isn’t truly random after all!
Some easy questions as lesson starters.
- Finding simple percentages, like 10% or 15%
- Finding any percentage, like 23% or 92%
- Finding percentage increases and decreases
- Converting between fractions, percentages, decimals
Answers included on the Power Point.
A set of six challenging problems where pupils must use all the digits 1-9 exactly once each, for example:
Find two three-digit numbers that sum to another three-digit number
Solutions provided.
Two pages of Powerpoints with answers on simple questions like
If f(x)=3x+4, find f(5)
Then tests fractions and negatives, and finally more difficult questions like
If f(x)=3x+4, and f(a)=19, find a
A set of five harder problems about finding the mean which involve pupils using the fact that the total is the number of data points times the mean (or using algebra).
Provided with solutions.
Two extra tasks for pupils doing the Higher Statistics Module.
Task 1 is using Excel to analyse some Covid infection data using regression analysis. This has example solutions inline.
Task 2 is conducting a survey . Included are example model solutions…
Three Power Points introducing forming and solving equations in a fun context.
The first leads pupils to an equation like x + 5
The second leads pupils to an equation like 2(x+5)
The third is more complicated and involves x on both sides of the equation
A powerpoint-activity to learn and revise about vectors.
There's been a robbery! Can you help Inspector Vector solve the crime by collecting clues? This is a fun activity for groups that includes:
- adding and subtracting 2D and 3D vectors
- finding the magnitude of 2D and 3D vectors
- adding and subtracting vectors like a and b
- some practice with surds for magnitude of vectors
- visualizing vectors in 3D
- using some logic to solve the crime
Solutions to each clue included in the Power Point notes.
Takes a very good class about 1 hour 30 minutes.
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.
This will introduce the topics of 3D volume and surface area, and also provide some challenging extension questions.
A set of four worksheets on
- Basic Skills (rounding, 2D perimeter and area, 3D volume and surface area)
- Problems (real life problems involving volume and surface area of cuboids, cylinders, cones and spheres)
- Units (converting between e.g. square metres and square centimetres)
- Extensions to the Problems (revisiting the problems with converting units and more in-depth calculations)
All provided with solutions.
Also includes a Power Point for some revision
Two pages of tricky riddles, that will keep pupils busy.
The second page is much harder than the first.
Requires only simple mathematical ideas but lots of lateral and creative thinking.
Solutions provided.
A fun introduction to units, converting between e.g. metres and centimetres. A starter activity, two pages of worksheet activities, and a challenge to find the amount of air in the room.
A Power Point time-questions.ppt with questions covering:
converting between 12 and 24 hour time
finding the time between events
converting between hours and minutes
An introduction Speed Distance Time.pdf, with simple questions on each of Distance, Time and Speed, then mixed questions.
A Power Point summary DST Summary.ppt of how to do DST questions
Full solutions provided.
This is a free-standing resource on simple fractions.
It involves questions like 1/4 of 20 up to things like 3/7 of 14.
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.
An investigation for pupils about the classic Four Colour Theorem.
Some background and examples, then a chance for them to have a go at.
Makes a change from the usual end-of-term colouring!