Assistant Headteacher (Leader of Learning Mathematics & Numeracy) at a Secondary School in West Sussex, England.
The resources I have created have all been used personally in my lessons and amended according to their success in my lessons. I hope others find them useful.
Assistant Headteacher (Leader of Learning Mathematics & Numeracy) at a Secondary School in West Sussex, England.
The resources I have created have all been used personally in my lessons and amended according to their success in my lessons. I hope others find them useful.
This bundle includes: Order or Operations, Solving Equations & Substitution.
An engaging activity for students to consolidate their learning. Students answer the questions on the sheet and then, once they have the answer, colour in the corresponding section of the large grid to create a pattern. All details are fully explained in the resource itself, with lots of additional ideas as to how to get the best out of the resource, including: extension activities, challenge questions and suggested variations on the activity. All answers included
A complete notebook file for teaching both circumference and area of circles. All answers are included in the resource as well as learning outcomes, animations and starter/plenary tasks. All details of how I’ve used the resource are included as well as suggestions as to how use each slide
A complete lesson PowerPoint to introduce Venn Diagrams and get students interpreting/using them to find probabilities. A worksheet is provided for students to work on. All examples are fully explained and animations on the ppt used effectively to do so. All answers included and all teacher notes are given in the ‘notes’ section of each slide. Also includes a 10 question plenary using my ABCD fans, but mini whiteboards could be used instead.
This is a set of 6 homework sheets I use with Higher Tier GCSE students in Year 10. Each sheet has 10 questions on, which stay the same throughout the sheets - the numbers/wording of the questions change slightly.
Topics covered: Rounding to Significant Figures, Standard Form, Substituting into Linear Equations to find values to plot, Area and Circumference of Circles, HCF/LCM and Product of Prime Numbers, Estimation, Multiplying 2-digit numbers, Solving Linear Equations.
All answers included on a separate sheet for easy marking!
I upload the homework sheets to our school's VLE for students to attempt/download themselves each week. Easy to set, easy to collect in, easy to mark and give feedback in class.
This is a complete set of lessons on forming and solving linear equations. SMART notebook file for use with the IWB.
Starter involves solving linear equations, with all answers included.
Forming equations from 'wordy' type questions
Forming equations from geometric scenarios - those that involve areas/perimeters of shapes
Forming equations from geometric scenarios - those that involve angles within shapes, on straight lines, around a point, etc - a recap on basic angle rules is included too.
Lots of examples to go through with your students as well as questions to pose to them. Includes 'Finish Him' type plenary questions and LOs.
A whole lesson on SMART notebook to teach students how to solve inequalities and represent the solution on a number line.
Number lines worksheet also included with 10 number lines to a page for students to work on.
Notebook file includes:
Starter - putting the correct inequality sign between 2 numbers and writing an inequality for a solution given on a number line (this is mainly to test their prior knowledge)!
Solving linear equations task, complete with answers to review this skill and link in with solving the inequalities.
Examples for you to go through with your students before giving them questions to attempt.
Blank number lines to get students to come to the board to answer questions, before revealing the answers (included).
This is a lesson I teach on Circle Theorems. The main resource is the notebook file which contains details on the starter task (see below), all circle theorems explained and detailed for students to copy on A3 paper (this is how I usually get them to do it), then 10 multiple choice questions to answer using my ABCD Fans (see my free resources)[can also use mini whiteboards].
The starter task, separate wsheet for students, involves them picking out parts of the diagram shown to identify angle facts already known - angles in a triangle, quadrilateral etc. This is then on the notebook file which is interactive and layered, allowing you to pull out certain features to explain to students.
This is a nice activity to get students using BIDMAS. The activity involves students being given a calculation on entering your classroom - print and cut out slides 4-7. The students answer the question (using BIDMAS) to find the location of their seat for the lesson. Each seat in the class will need to be numbered before the lesson - Print slides 8-39. You can give certain students certain questions to ensure they are sat in certain seats. Then, once they've found their seat they should attempt the rest of the questions where the answers are the numbers between 1-32.
The great thing about this task is that students often get the answers wrong and you end up getting 2 or more students thinking they are in the same seat, hence discussion occurs as to who is correct! They can then use each other to answer the questions on the worksheet!
All answers included.
10 different Mathematical ‘battles’ for your class to play in teams via the IWB. Students (in teams), on mini whiteboards, answer the questions on the grid shown. In turns, teams suggest the correct answer to the question(s) and the teacher then changes the colour of that question/answer to that team’s colour (green or blue). The team with the majority of the grid wins. Tiebreaker questions are included. All answers are also included in the resource as well as the teacher instructions on how the animations/controls work and possible variations on how to use the resource.
This is my 'takeaway homework' menu I give to my students.
The pdf contains a ready to print version of the menu to give straight to students. The idea is that they choose any task to complete for their homework from the menu. I set these homeworks over a half term and students have to earn a set amount of 'chillies' in these weeks.
On the ppt file I have an editable version of the menu for you to change my name etc to suit your students - this can then be printed as above. I also have many examples of work from my students to use for inspiration as to what can be created.
There are also some display logos and ideas from my current display board in the word doc.
See my blogs below for more details!
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I love this approach to homework and so do my students.
This is a plenary activity I do when teaching Properties of Quadrilaterals. I use my ABCD Fans (see my free resources) for this, but mini whiteboards would work just as well.
10 questions to test students knowledge on the properties of quadrilaterals.
Numeracy Skills Checks - KS3 Numeracy Program to complement White Rose Maths SOL and allow students to review their learning on Sparx Maths.
This resource has been created with a view to improving students’ numeracy and Mathematics outcomes across my school from September. The Numeracy Skills Checks assess students’ basic numeracy skills and strategies and complement the White Rose Maths schemes of learning in KS3. There are 6 Numeracy Skills Checks for each Year Group 7-9 (one for each half term), 18 altogether across all 3 year groups. Each Year Groups’ Numeracy Skills Checks come complete with answers in a separate document. There is then a Student Review Sheet outlining each topic covered for each Numeracy Skills Check, linked to the Sparx Maths Independent Learning tasks. I have then added a Tracker spreadsheet that will automatically colour code students results based on their scores/confidence rating. There’s a document outlining the logistics of running the Numeracy Skills Checks with tips to get the program running in your Mathematics department and a poster to be printed and displayed in classrooms/corridor displays to raise the profile of the Numeracy Skills Checks.