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.

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.

A starter or plenary activity for pairs or individual students to play. Domino fractions, decimals or percentages of amounts are matched with answers to make 4 squares. Additionally they can be mixed together as they are equivalent sets.

This colourful cross curricular quiz enables groups of students to work in teams. The 5 rounds explore the Viking era, weighing of metals, writing, Viking ships, and a Viking journey. Mathematics has been used in all aspects of this quiz. Codes, vectors, ordering years, and calculations. A link to the BBC website adds further interest in order to solve one of the problems (approx 3 mins). There is an accompanying answer sheet for teams to use. This quiz could be used as a stand alone quiz or as part of a topic. NB The score slide has been updated to allow keyboard entry. An animation help slide for vectors has been added 12.04.17

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/

Two cross curricular fun resources for History and Maths.Quiz 2 is aimed at lower KS2 and quiz 1 upper KS2. The class is divided into 6 teams who work together to solve maths problems related to the Romans. The quiz lasts about one hour.Categories include Timeline, Roman money, Roman Numerals, Roman Army, Mosaics, Roman Toilets and a Roman Walk. There is also an answer sheet to download. This activity should involve discussion around solving maths problems. It could be used as a stand alone activity or complement a history topic. These resources have been updated so that the score slide can be completed using the keyboard.

A fun animation showing dinosaurs moving through a forest. Pupils use a data collection sheet to record and find the mode and range.

This fun game is to be used on an interactive board with 2 students competing to get the most correct. The properties of a quadrilateral are given and the student has to identify the correct one from 6 choices.. They have 10 or 5 seconds to answer depending on the version chosen. This can be used as a starter or plenary. The latest review for this resource on another site - "Excellent product".

There are 10 animated slides which have frogs, lizards, bats or spiders going into the cauldron. Students have to calculate the total number of legs on each slide. From this one Power point you can make many more tests. Just delete or add spell ingredients and save your new file. The emphasis is on 2, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.

Required. Knowledge of multiples. Multiplication. This colourful animation with sound shows 3 types of spaceship ( red, blue and green). There are 6 of each colour. They appear one at a time and students have to record the number shown on each ship. Perhaps on a 100 square? They are trying to identify the different multiples for each colour. To add a challenge many of the numbers appear on 2 or more coloured ships.

This POWERPOINT is fully animated with colourful graphics and sound. Some activities are interactive. There are 12 puzzles, activities with a Christmas Theme. One a day for 12 days. Suitable for years 5/6/7. Try out taster here. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/12-days-of-christmas-maths-taster-11348715 Sorting Snowballs,(squares, multiples of 3 and factors of 35) Christmas Snap (TU x TU) (Doubling and halving) Christmas Cards (Area) Choosing Chimneys (Arrangements) Broken Baubles (Multiples of 9) Weighing Presents(Ordering gms and Kgs) Reindeer Sorting(Logic) Christmas Tree Sorting( mm, cm, m) Christmas Tree Sequences Snowball fun( Rectangle numbers) Giving Presents(investigating patterns) Christmas snap 2(Squares and Square roots)

A step by step presentation reminding students how to solve different types of equations. This includes Linear, Quadratic, Cubic, Simultaneous and Inequalities. There are 32 slides and 5 of the slides contain questions with answers.