Teachers notes with tips on how to manage a project where pupils work in groups to plan a town using and developing their shape and space skills.

Marking grid to accompany architecture project. Could be used for recording group project work.

Pupils assign values to letters in order to gain the highest total for a set of questions. 4 rounds. Give the students time to assign values to each letter then in pairs they substitute their numbers into the expressions. The highest total wins. The pupil with the most wins in a round is the victor. They could then make up own round if they finish. Set up in excel , arranged to print easily onto one sheet landscape.

Sheet with examples and explanations about simple and compound interest. A couple of questions left for pupils to attempt first/ to copy down as teacher explains.

Test for year 7/8 on bodmas and directed numbers.

Could be used in a variety of situations. Probability,sample space, listing outcomes, relative frequency, probability questions.

HCF, LCM, prime factor decomposition, estimating square roots. Could be used for a test/ homework/ revision/ recap/ starter etc

An excel workbook with data on. An investigation carried out and typed uip. Can be shown to year 7/8 and then they can be tasked with recreating one or similiar.

Covering simplifying, expanding brackets, solving equations, solving equations with brackets, solving equations with brackets on both sides. Test or homework for year 7/8.

Two algebra tests covering collecting terms, expanding brackets. The second test includes substitution and a word problem.

test on next term and term to term rules and nth term.

Year 7/8 number test. Negatives, decimals and simple conversions

Circles with parts drawn on so that pupils can clearly label and then stick in their books or for homework.

A pupil sheet outlining an activity to design own probability game and suggested lead in activity.

A few questions about sample space diagrams. Pupils have to construct them and then answer probability questions using them.

A template to be handed out to groups to enable them to organised themselves into a study group and accomplish a research task. . NB the teacher needs to choose a meaty chapter/assignment for pupils to tackle.

Worksheet on statistics questions.

A collection of key words that can be cut up and spread around the classroom to help with literacy in maths classrooms. Or used as an easy lesson activity - have them cut up in a bag and pupils take one out and try to explain it/ ask someone to spell it...

Print on A4 for a collection of mathematics quotations (22pages) for your secondary maths classroom.