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Mathswizards products have been developed for busy teachers who require well produced material. I worked as a specialist mathematics teacher for over 30 years and I also developed my own Mathswizard clubs for primary aged pupils. The products are mainly Power Points but not exclusively. They are usually games, puzzles and quizzes or activities built around a theme. The Taster products showcase an activity from the full length resource. I have had my work included in the KS4 Maths Boardworks.

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Mathswizards products have been developed for busy teachers who require well produced material. I worked as a specialist mathematics teacher for over 30 years and I also developed my own Mathswizard clubs for primary aged pupils. The products are mainly Power Points but not exclusively. They are usually games, puzzles and quizzes or activities built around a theme. The Taster products showcase an activity from the full length resource. I have had my work included in the KS4 Maths Boardworks.
Halloween   Averages PowerPoint
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Halloween Averages PowerPoint

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A fun animated Power point that involves two children competing, pushing pumpkins and bobbing for apples. The distances are in metres and the weights are in grams. Pupils have to calculate the mean, median and range and use these statistics to decide the winner. Hints are available to remind pupils how to calculate each average.
Dinosaur Maths PowerPoint
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Dinosaur Maths PowerPoint

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A fun animation showing dinosaurs moving through a forest. Pupils use a data collection sheet to record and find the mode and range.
Christmas Maths PowerPoint Quiz : Christmas Tree (Yr 5/6)
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Christmas Maths PowerPoint Quiz : Christmas Tree (Yr 5/6)

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Students compete in teams solving math problems. Animated with sound to engage learners. 1. Mending Baubles by putting correct halves together to make a multiple of 7. 2. Gifts Galore- who bought the gifts using all their money. 3. Arranging Baubles - arrange 4 colours in different ways. 4. Christmas Cards- find the length and width of envelopes with an area of 240 sq cm. 5. Word Winter Wonderland - Unravel mixed up words to reveal mathematical words.
Domino Squares : Division
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Domino Squares : Division

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A differentiated fun activity matching dominoes to practise division. Use as a starter or plenary. There are four squares with 16 questions in each set. The 2 sets can be interchanged. The sets need to be printed on different coloured card. This is an activity for individuals or pairs.
Halloween Maths PowerPoint Quiz (Year 5, 6)
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Halloween Maths PowerPoint Quiz (Year 5, 6)

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A fully animated Halloween maths quiz with sound. This is a quiz for teams of children working together solving problems. Order pumpkins by weight; work out how many frogs and spiders are in the cauldron; match the ghostly frames using enlargement; calculate mean, median, mode and range to compare pumpkin patches; and finally go trick or treating using factors, primes and multiples. Click the drop down pumpkin to return to the score sheet. Click the witch to move to next slide.There is now an instruction slide which I hope will clarify the quiz. Download the score sheet and print out one per team. Updated to allow score entry via keyboard.
Fractions PowerPoint
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Fractions PowerPoint

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This fully animated resource with fun monster characters invites pupils to consider a square divided into 18 triangles. Halves, thirds, sixths and ninths are displayed. The slides offer an opportunity to talk about what they see. This activity leads into 2 dice games. The first game, played in pairs, pupils take turns to roll the dice. On their turn they have to colour the correct fraction onto a copy of the square . The winner is the first to complete the whole square.The second is an open activity which challenges pupils to make up their own game for halves, fifths, quarters and tenths.
Multiplication
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Multiplication

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Three Fun PowerPoints and one game gives an opportunity to revise mutiplication, division and multiples.
Chinese New Year Maths PowerPoint Quiz
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Chinese New Year Maths PowerPoint Quiz

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An interesting and engaging PowerPoint using maths to highlight the Chinese New Year in a quiz format. Teams of pupils collaborate to solve the problems or complete the activities. There are 5 rounds. In Chinese characters pupils have to find the mode as different characters appear on the screen such as Fate or Good Fortune. In Firework Festival fireworks last for different amounts of time and the combinations have to be found. The number of chopsticks needed for two restaurants with 2 types of table, square and rectangular.The Chinese Zodiac requires matching of years to the correct animal. Finally a magic square is used to calculate Steve Chan's lucky number. Updated so that the scores and team names can be entered via keyboard.
Magic Maths PowerPoint Investigation : Playing Cards
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Magic Maths PowerPoint Investigation : Playing Cards

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Will your pupils think you have magical powers? Maybe! From a pack of playing cards select the diamonds and clubs 2-9. Put them on the desk face down. Get a student to come out and choose one of each suit. They can hold them up for the class to see. Click the card to advance the slide. A set of instructions appears and the class have to follow these to produce a number. Ask them to tell you the number. Click on the magic wand (for the magic sound) to help you find their two cards. There are 3 different puzzles each one is repeated making a total of 6. To find the cards from the first 2 puzzles subtract 12 . The diamond is the 10s digit and the units is the club. To find the next 2 puzzles, subtract 40. Again the 10s digit is the diamond and the units the club. For the last 2 puzzles, subtract 70. The hundreds digit is the diamond and the units the club. There is a separate worksheet for students to investigate how these puzzles work. Depending on the ability of the students algebra may be used.
KS2 Sat's  Maths Revision PowerPoint Game
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KS2 Sat's Maths Revision PowerPoint Game

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Fed up with Past papers or questions? Try this fun, animated Thousand Pound Drop Game. Based on the Million Pound Drop TV game, pairs of pupils compete to keep as much money as possible by spreading their money on answers. Meanwhile teachers use the game to extend learning by discussing how answers were chosen. There are 26 slides.
Probability
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Probability

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A lighthearted look at the causes of death based on real statistics. A starter to remind or introduce the concept of likelihood with sound and animations.
Simple Probability PowerPoint
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Simple Probability PowerPoint

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Two games, ‘Spin the bottle’ and ‘Scissors, Paper, Stone.’ address the following learning objectives in this PowerPoint. This resource recaps some of the terminology of simple probability and prepares the way for more complex concepts. Useful for year 6/7. List all possible outcomes of an event and find probabilities. Calculate simple probabilities. Understand the use of the word ‘random’ and ‘equally likely’ In addition try a FREE copy of 'Risky Business' - a lighthearted look at Causes of Death based on real statistics. A starter to remind or introduce the concept of likelihood with sound and animations.
Christmas Maths Quiz; Christmas Pudding (Year 3/4)
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Christmas Maths Quiz; Christmas Pudding (Year 3/4)

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A fun end of term Power Point Quiz for teams of students to work together solving fun maths puzzles. There is a score sheet slide which can be used to record points using the keyboard.There is a separate answer sheet for recording answers. The maths used includes, division and multiplication,calculations, ordering whole numbers to 1000, identifying shapes and continuing a sequence of times tables forward and backward. Each of the 5 rounds is designed around the Christmas theme, Falling snowballs, Christmas puddings, Christmas stockings, Snowmoblies and Christmas trees. After each round the teams swap sheets to mark their answers. The slides are fully animated including sound.
Algebra PowerPoints 2020 Bundle
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Algebra PowerPoints 2020 Bundle

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**Five resources each with a different focus. Including revising equations and inequalities. Formulae in real life situations. Crystal ball predictions. **
Ancient Egypt Maths PowerPoint Quiz
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Ancient Egypt Maths PowerPoint Quiz

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A colourful cross curricular history/maths quiz for years 5/6. Facts and figures are used in an imaginative way to delve into Egyptian life. Reigns of the Pharaohs, Buying and Selling, Pulling your Weight, Hieroglyphs. Solve problems involving estimating, calculations with money and time, and hieroglyph code breaking. A link to the BBC Bitesize adds an interesting task involving the base area and volume of The Great Pyramid. (18 slides PP) This quiz encourages discussion and could be used as a standalone activity or as part of a topic in History. Updated scoreslide so that scores and team names can be entered via the keyboard. A video of this resource can be viewed https://www.facebook.com/mathswizards/
Easter Maths PowerPoint Quiz Year 5/6
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Easter Maths PowerPoint Quiz Year 5/6

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Five fantastic maths problems to delight and challenge. In Cracked Eggs, 10 eggs have been incorrectly put back together. By matching the calculations to make numbers between 30 and 39 a solution can be found. Vectors have been used in Easter Egg Hunt to translate Easter eggs around a grid. A simple animation shows students how to work out vectors if this is new to them. Hot Cross Buns are sold in packs of 3 sizes. Finding combinations of packs up to 20 will solve this problem. In Easter Parade a girl wants to decorate a hat with flowers. But how many will she need? Finally the fox is on the lookout for his lunch. Numbered hens are put into hutches by sorting them into even, prime and multiples of 9. Each round is marked by another team during the quiz and the teacher records t he scores on the score slide using the keyboard. Accessible to years 4.5 or 6. Some groups will need more help than others to complete the rounds. This will influence time taken for quiz. Works well with all pupils using individual whiteboards, then collating answers for team.
Functional Skills Maths Level 2 PowerPoint: Z factor
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Functional Skills Maths Level 2 PowerPoint: Z factor

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Based on The X Factor, Z Factor is a show with 4 competitors, Groovy Growlers, Singer Simon, Frumpy Freddie and Smarty Pants. Each week one is voted out. Percentages, pie charts , bar charts compare results. This resource is animated with sound and should promote discussion as students try to find the winner.