Resource; KS2 Arithmetic paper 1 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions practice - Thoughts and Crosses. Could also be treated as a multiplying and dividing fractions– differentiated worksheet covering different styles of questions that may be asked on the foundation tier exam. Perfect for revision/consolidation at KS3 or using as intervention task at KS3. Contains; 1. 16 questions on thoughts and crosses, moving from foundation level to exceeding. 2.Cross Curricular link encourages literacy with the pupils, pupils speaking to each other and explaining to how solve problems (this is a massive focus in our school). 3. 16 answers provided. 4. Set of instructions to ensure the task runs smoothly. 5. Printable version – white version. 6. Please download file and ensure you don’t just drag and drop to google drive as this can cause issues with the viewing the file. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print, select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. Tip 2: You could laminate and reuse for other classes. This could be printed in colour and used over and over again. Saving you time and money on the printing costs. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop pupil’s mathematical discussions and thinking/reasoning skills. To encourage pupils to think about what they are writing down in the exam. By speaking to their partner it means their explanation and answers must make sense. Good practice for the exam to ensure they show full working out and to check their answer makes sense. Check the preview! If you do purchase my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; KS2 Arithmetic paper 1 adding and subtracting fractions practice- Thoughts and Crosses. Could also be treated as a adding and subtracting fractions– differentiated worksheet covering different styles of questions that may be asked on the foundation tier exam. Perfect for KS3 intervention and consolidation/recap of adding and subtracting fractions. Contains; 1. 16 questions on thoughts and crosses, moving from foundation level to exceeding. 2.Cross Curricular link encourages literacy with the pupils, pupils speaking to each other and explaining to how solve problems (this is a massive focus in our school). 3. 16 answers provided. 4. Set of instructions to ensure the task runs smoothly. 5. Printable version – white version. 6. Please download file and ensure you don’t just drag and drop to google drive as this can cause issues with the viewing the file. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print, select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. Tip 2: You could laminate and reuse for other classes. This could be printed in colour and used over and over again. Saving you time and money on the printing costs. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop pupil’s mathematical discussions and thinking/reasoning skills. To encourage pupils to think about what they are writing down in the exam. By speaking to their partner it means their explanation and answers must make sense. Good practice for the exam to ensure they show full working out and to check their answer makes sense. Check the preview! If you do purchase my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; Thoughts and Crosses - long division algebra. Differentiated worksheet .- long division algebra. Contains; 1 Two tasks for lesson on long division algebra. 1) Thoughts and crosses and 2) differentiated worksheet. 2. Thoughts and Crosses starts with basic algebraic long division and progressively gets harder as they move up the table. The differentiated worksheet is foundation, developing, secure and exceeding. Improvement of the skill, makes pupils aware of areas that they might fall down on in the exam. Pupils tend to show progress by end of lesson and feel confident with these skills. 3. Sets of solutions included. 4. Instructions (very simple, one line here) Display on the board. Let pupils complete in their books. Thoughts and Crosses 10 - 15 minutes earning essential marks in the exam. Differentiated worksheet 10 - 15 minutes in lesson and finish for homework. Instructions given for a smooth start. 5. Topics covered- Algebraic long division. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop long division algebra skills. To address gaps in student’s knowledge in preparation for the exam for dividing algebrically. Ensure pupils are not losing key marks that come up on the exam. Check the preview! If you do download my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive! @ onitmaths Terms of use; Please only use by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; Expanding brackets using pascal’s triangle - Thoughts and Crosses. Could also be treated as a Pascal’s Triangle – differentiated worksheet covering different styles of questions that may be asked on the higher tier exam or A level exam. Contains; 1. 16 questions on thoughts and crosses, moving from foundation level to exceeding. 2.Cross Curricular link encourages literacy with the pupils, pupils speaking to each other and explaining to how solve problems (this is a massive focus in our school). 3. 16 answers provided. 4. Set of instructions to ensure the task runs smoothly. 5. Printable version – white version. 6. Please download file and ensure you don’t just drag and drop to google drive as this can cause issues with the viewing the file. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print, select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. Tip 2: You could laminate and reuse for other classes. This could be printed in colour and used over and over again. Saving you time and money on the printing costs. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop pupil’s mathematical discussions and thinking/reasoning skills. To encourage pupils to think about what they are writing down in the exam. By speaking to their partner it means their explanation and answers must make sense. Good practice for the exam to ensure they show full working out and to check their answer makes sense. Check the preview! If you do purchase my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource.

Prove to me! Instructions... • Pupils to work in pairs. • Pupils to solve the problems together,discussing common misconceptions and where pupils have got their incorrect answer from. • This allows you as teacher to discuss classic mistakes, common misconceptions and also to show different methods of solving problems. • Great to encourage pupils to use mathematical language and develop oracy skills within maths lessons. Really engaging tasks for the pupils. Terms of use; Please use only by the customer paying for the resource.

Resource; Fractions (four operations)- Thoughts and Crosses. Could also be treated as a fractions– differentiated worksheet covering different styles in which the question is asked at Grade 4. Contains; 1. 24 questions on thoughts and crosses, moving from foundation level to exceeding. 2.Cross Curricular link encourages literacy with the pupils, pupils speaking to each other and explaining to how solve problems (this is a massive focus in our school). 3. 24 answers provided. 4. Set of instructions to ensure the task runs smoothly. 5. Printable version – white version. 6. Please download file and ensure you don’t just drag and drop to google drive as this can cause issues with the viewing the file. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. Tip 2: You could laminate and reuse for other classes. This could be printed in colour and used over and over again. Saving you time and money on the printing costs. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop pupil’s mathematical discussions and thinking/reasoning skills. To encourage pupils to think about what they are writing down in the exam. By speaking to their partner it means their explanation and answers must make sense. Good practice for the exam to ensure they show full working out and to check their answer makes sense. Check the preview! If you do purchase my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; 5 lesson starters (Exam Warm Ups) – all based on the same skills. The colour represents the levels of difficulty or more how many marks in the exam they would be worth. I use these particularly with my KS3 groups to build confidence on quick win questions for GCSE, I also use them with my lower ability year 11 group for starters. Topics covered; Standard form, fraction of amount, exterior/interior angle of pentagon and hexagon, basic probability worded problem, solving inequalities. Contains; 1. 5 sets of exam warm up questions. 2.Improvement of key skills in the exam, these were areas that my pupils fell down on in the most recent exam. Pupils tend to show progress by lesson five and feel confident with these skills. 3. 5 sets of solutions. 4. Instructions (very simple, one line here) - Display on the board. Let pupils complete in their books. Each lesson 15 minutes earning essential marks in the exam. 5. Instructions given for a smooth start. 6 Topics covered- Collecting like terms/simplifying expressions, ordering decimals, converting between FDP, naming 3D solids, faces, edges, vertices, simplifying ratio, sharing an amount into a given ratio, forming and solving equations with shape. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop exam skills around different strands of the curriculum. To address gaps in student’s knowledge in preparation for the exam. Ensure pupils are not losing key marks that come up on every exam. Check the preview! If you do download my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please only use by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; KS2 Multiplication - Thoughts and Crosses. Could also be treated as a multiplication – differentiated worksheet covering different styles of questions that may be asked on the foundation tier exam. Foundation – two digits multiply by one digit Developing - two digits multiply by two digits Secure - three digits multiply by two digits Exceeding – worded problems . Contains; 1. 16 questions on thoughts and crosses, moving from foundation level to exceeding. 2.Cross Curricular link encourages literacy with the pupils, pupils speaking to each other and explaining to how solve problems (this is a massive focus in our school). 3. 16 answers provided. 4. Set of instructions to ensure the task runs smoothly. 5. Printable version – white version. 6. Please download file and ensure you don’t just drag and drop to google drive as this can cause issues with the viewing the file. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print, select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. Tip 2: You could laminate and reuse for other classes. This could be printed in colour and used over and over again. Saving you time and money on the printing costs. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop pupil’s mathematical discussions and thinking/reasoning skills. To encourage pupils to think about what they are writing down in the exam. By speaking to their partner it means their explanation and answers must make sense. Good practice for the exam to ensure they show full working out and to check their answer makes sense. Check the preview! If you do purchase my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; 5 lesson starters (Exam Warm Ups) – all based on the same skills. The colour represents the levels of difficulty or more how many marks in the exam they would be worth. I use these particularly with my KS3 groups to build confidence on quick win questions for GCSE, I also use them with my lower ability year 11 group for starters. Topics covered: area of a circle, ratio, adding fractions, inequalities, averages from a table. Contains; 1. 5 sets of exam warm up questions. 2.Improvement of key skills in the exam, these were areas that my pupils fell down on in the most recent exam. Pupils tend to show progress by lesson five and feel confident with these skills. 3. 5 sets of solutions. 4. Instructions (very simple, one line here) - Display on the board. Let pupils complete in their books. Each lesson 15 minutes earning essential marks in the exam. 5. Instructions given for a smooth start. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop exam skills around different strands of the curriculum. To address gaps in student’s knowledge in preparation for the exam. Ensure pupils are not losing key marks that come up on every exam. Check the preview! If you do download my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive! @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please only use by the customer buying the resource.

Resource; 6 lesson starters (Exam Warm Ups) – all based on the same skills. Differentiated – foundation, developing and secure. Contains; 1. 6 sets of questions. 2.Improvement of key skills in the exam, these were areas that my pupils fell down on in the most recent exam. Pupils tend to show progress by lesson five and feel confident with these skills. 3. 6 sets of solutions. 4. Instructions (very simple, one line here) Display on the board. Let pupils complete in their books. Each lesson 15 minutes earning essential marks in the exam. 5. Instructions given for a smooth start. 6 Topics covered- Foundation; Mode, fractional solving equations, FDP, Area of Triangle/Circle. Developing; Range, Median, solving equations with a bracket, adding/subtracting fractions, algebra and perimeter of shape. Secure: Mean, solving with unknowns on both sides, adding/subtracting mixed number fractions, surface area of cube, cuboid and cylinder. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop exam skills around different strands of the curriculum. To address gaps in student’s knowledge in preparation for the exam. Ensure pupils are not losing key marks that come up on every exam. Check the preview! If you do download my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths

Pupils choose foundation, developing or secure. Pupils complete starter in their class book. Pupils show full working out and answers. One starter per lesson, for five lessons. By the time pupils get to starter 5 they should feel like they have made progress with those specific skills that week. Show answers at the end of each slide and pupils can self or peer assess. Pupils usually in my class use red pen to mark their own work. Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource

Resource; 5 sets of Mind the Gaps. Mind the Gap - identify areas of weakness in your pupils knowledge, then address them in daily starters, form time or revision. Same skills for 5 lessons watching pupils get more confident and gain those extra marks needed. Essential GCSE revision. Essential to ensure pupils feel confident in topics coming up time and time again in the new curriculum papers. Contains; 1. 5 sets of PPT slides each with 17 of the same style problems. 2.Improvement of key skills in the exam, these were areas that my pupils fell down on in the most recent exam. I have created 5 PPT, each with the same style questions for paper 1, non calculator ranging from 1 mark each to 5 marks per question. Each set of questions comes with solutions and instructions on how to use.  Fantastic resource to improve pupil’s skills on areas of the foundation GCSE and see them picking up these easy marks. 3. 5 sets of solutions. 4. Instructions given on each PPT. Topics covered within this mind the gap: Ordering integers, ordering decimals, FDP, rounding, odd numbers, money problems, estimation worded problems, best buy problems involving area, algebraic proof, mean, mode and median from a table, algebra and shape, Venn Diagrams and ratio. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop exam skills around different strands of the curriculum. To address gaps in student’s knowledge in preparation for the exam. Ensure pupils are not losing key marks that come up on every exam. Progress seen by lesson number 5 (42 marks in this exam). Check the preview! If you do download my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths Terms of use: Please use only by the customer paying for the resource.

Mind the gap resource - based on the new 9 - 1 GCSE. Based on EDEXCEL style paper questions, I have produced a mini whiteboard quiz/paper quiz as a starter for lessons to get pupils earning those easy marks throughout the paper. A focus on 1 - 2 mark questions that our pupils are making errors on. Each quiz has a questions slide and then the answers are provided also. I tend to get pupils to mark their questions at the end of each slide to ensure they can see they are making progress. I often use at the start of a revision session or during drop down days to get pupils engaged by having a competition board and the winner is the pupil who scores the most points - earning themselves a prize. I find that pupils need repetition - perfect practice, makes perfect. So I have produced 6 mind the gaps, same skills addressed in each one with different figures. This builds confidence with my pupils as they can see the progress they have made from the start of the week to the end of the week. Based around paper 3; foundation skills - calculator. Terms of use; Please use only by the customer paying for the resource.

GCSE 9 - 1 New specification; Mind the gap quiz (non calculator) for foundation! Mind the gap resource - based on the new 9 - 1 GCSE. Based on EDEXCEL style paper questions, I have produced a mini whiteboard quiz/paper quiz as a starter for lessons to get pupils earning those easy marks throughout the paper. A focus on 1 - 2 mark questions that our pupils are making errors on. Each quiz has a questions slide and then the answers are provided also. I tend to get pupils to mark their questions at the end of each slide to ensure they can see they are making progress. I often use at the start of a revision session or during drop down days to get pupils engaged by having a competition board and the winner is the pupil who scores the most points - earning themselves a prize. I find that pupils need repetition - perfect practice, makes perfect. So I have produced 5 mind the gaps, same skills addressed in each one with different figures. This builds confidence with my pupils as they can see the progress they have made from the start of the week to the end of the week. Based around paper 1; foundation skills - non calculator. Terms of use; Please use only by the customer paying for the resource.

Resource; 5 sets of Mind the Gaps. 9 slides per Mind the Gap PPT. Contains; 1. 5 sets of PPT slides. 2.Improvement of key skills in the exam, these were areas that my pupils fell down on in the most recent exam. I have created 5 PPT, each with the same style questions for paper 1, 2 & 3 mark questions. Each set of questions comes with solutions and instructions on how to use.  Fantastic resource to improve pupil’s basic skills for the paper and see them picking up these easy marks. 3. 5 sets of solutions. 4. Instructions given on each PPT. Printing Tip: This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. File Type; PDF Idea behind task; To develop exam skills around different strands of the curriculum. To address gaps in student’s knowledge in preparation for the exam. Ensure pupils are not losing key marks that come up on every exam. Progress seen by lesson number 5 (26 marks in exam). Check the preview! If you do download my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths Terms of use: Please use only by the customer paying for the resource.

Resource; Equivalent Fractions – Reasoning Cards. Contains; 1. 16 simplifying/ equivalent fraction statements. One statement per card. 2.Cross Curricular link encourages literacy with the pupils (this is a massive focus in our school). 3. 16 solutions provided. 4. Set of instructions to ensure the task runs smoothly. 5. Printable version – white version instead of yellow to save on ink. Printing Tip; This resource has been designed to display on board or print on A4. If you wish to print select ‘shrink’ or ‘print to fit page’ (or fit to page option on your print settings) in order for it to print correctly on A4. You can also use as trade cards and cut each A4 sheet into the 8 cards, then it can be used as a pair/group activity like rally coach. Each pupil could explain their partners card to them. Idea behind task; To develop pupils thinking/reasoning skills. To encourage pupils to think about what a term equivalent or simplifying actually means. To encourage mathematical discussion within the classroom. This is a good resource to developing pupils reasoning skills. Check the preview! If you do purchase my resource, please do rate and review my resources. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but please do try to be constructive! @ onitmaths@gmail.com File Type; PDF Terms of use; Please use only by the customer buying the resource. Fan and Pick promotes cooperative learning, creating situations for discussions around finding the correct answer and not just what the answer is.
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Mind the gap resource - based on the new 9 - 1 GCSE. Based on EDEXCEL style paper questions, I have produced a mini whiteboard quiz/paper quiz as a starter for lessons to get pupils earning those easy marks throughout the paper. Each quiz has a questions slide and then the answers are provided also. I tend to get pupils to mark their questions at the end of each slide to ensure they can see they are making progress. I often use at the start of a revision session or during drop down days to get pupils engaged by having a competition board and the winner is the pupil who scores the most points - earning themselves a prize. I find that pupils need repetition - perfect practice, makes perfect. So I have produced 5 mind the gaps, same skills addressed in each one with different figures. This builds confidence with my pupils as they can see the progress they have made from the start of the week to the end of the week. Based around paper 2 calculator - foundation skills. I really appreciate reviews and feedback, I aim to develop constantly and love to ensure my resources are up to date and differentiated to all ability levels but like we are with our pupils and classes, please do try to be constructive!  @ onitmaths@gmail.com Terms of use; Please use only by the customer paying for the resource.