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Tim Silvester’s Maths Resources

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I have written a range of free and premium resources to assess and develop student understanding and to help students to prepare for examinations. My homework resources cover a broad range of the curriculum and they are carefully written and presented to be both professional and effective in aiding student progress. All assignments have answer papers provided and monitoring documents are available to record and analyse student performance.

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I have written a range of free and premium resources to assess and develop student understanding and to help students to prepare for examinations. My homework resources cover a broad range of the curriculum and they are carefully written and presented to be both professional and effective in aiding student progress. All assignments have answer papers provided and monitoring documents are available to record and analyse student performance.
3D shapes worksheet
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3D shapes worksheet

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A simple resource covering labelling 3D shapes, plan views and side elevations, isometric drawing and planes of symmetry for classroom practice.
Fractions: Addition, Subtraction and Division
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Fractions: Addition, Subtraction and Division

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This worksheet builds an understanding of fractions based on 'cups' and encourages students to consistently ensure fractions have the same denomination (determined by the denominators) in order to add, subtract and divide (make groups or piles).
Factors, multiples and primes
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Factors, multiples and primes

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A simple worksheet covering factors, multiples and primes and prime factor decomposition with some applied questions and slightly more challenging problems involving decomposition on the second side. Should take around 30 to 40 minutes for students to complete.
Data diagrams self assessment rubrics
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Data diagrams self assessment rubrics

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These rubrics are designed to ensure students check the quality of their statistical diagrams before moving on, or asking the teacher if their diagram is correct and of a suitable standard. They share success criteria, ensure students are applying the models of self and peer assessment with structure, and simplify the process of monitoring the standard of student work when creating statistical diagrams.
Free Key Stage 3 (and Key Stage 2) homework papers 1 to 5
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Free Key Stage 3 (and Key Stage 2) homework papers 1 to 5

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If you like these, consider purchasing my full set of 22 papers available through my shop! These are the first 5 papers of my series, best used as SAT homework practice, but easily used to challenge students in class, cover a comprehensive range of the curriculum at Key Stages 2 and 3. Each page contains questions of increasing difficulty, and each page correlates closely to the equivalent grade of work for the new GCSE specifications (Page 2 is grade 2 content). The papers are write-on. I print them as an A3 folded booklet and ask students to choose any 4 consecutive pages - this allows students to differentiate for themselves, although I will sometimes give them guidance. The papers are quick and easy to mark and they evaluate general understanding, ability to interpret, and ability to derive answers using a range of taught methods. They don't cover 'use and application'. My Pure, Statistics and Geometry series, and my topic-based series both do that.
Monitoring document for Statistics, Pure and Geometry write on examination practice assignments
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Monitoring document for Statistics, Pure and Geometry write on examination practice assignments

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Results can be recorded for each of the 12 assignments for the three categories; Statistics, Pure and Geometry. By inputting results for each question on the paper in the worksheet labelled with the number of each assignment, and specifying whether the student completed the Foundation or Higher paper, overall results are calculated (with a grade based on the new GCSE specification), and topic areas are analysed so that weaknesses can be targeted. Input names for each group in the lead worksheet and these will automatically appear in each subsequent worksheet. Track results over time with this monitoring document. The author has used the series and tracking successfully to ensure sustained success in Mathematics examinations for the students at his College.
Introduction to Algebra: how much does each animal weigh?
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Introduction to Algebra: how much does each animal weigh?

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Suitable either as a short activity, or a lesson or sequence of lessons; the excel document provides two worksheets each with a set of 6 scales and a variety of animals on each. The premise is simple, students must determine the weight of each animal. This is a simple introduction to Algebra, but can be seen as a simple problem solving activity. If the teacher starts by recording the 6 sets of scales as abstract algebra (eg c = 10, 2c = h, 2c + 2h = 2d based on the first set of scales), it is easy to share with students how much easier Algebra is when dealing with concrete (animals and pictures) as opposed to abstract (numbers and letters). To extend the students, and to create an excellent creative activity that is perfectly differentiated, ask students to create their own scales that 'build' towards a final unknown. The challenge is to ensure each scale is sequential, the 'Maths' works and the solution can be found, and the symbols or theme that the student chooses to use is manageable! I have had students create 'Christmas' themes with Father Christmas, reindeer, presents, elves etc, and students who have used simple quadrilateral shapes. They choose according to their artistic ability, and to the complexity of the problem they wish to create. Once created, the students have produced their own puzzles that their peers can attempt to solve at the beginning of the next lesson, evaluate in terms of difficulty, and offer words of advice on how the worksheet could be improved.
Working out equivalent fractions and ratios
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Working out equivalent fractions and ratios

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Resource to allow students to practise finding equivalent fractions and ratios, and to encourage students to apply how the process of finding equivalent fractions is the same as the process of finding equivalent ratios
Example of one of the 22 homework assignments for Years 11 to 16 by Tim Silvester
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Example of one of the 22 homework assignments for Years 11 to 16 by Tim Silvester

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This is one of the 22 homework documents that you can purchase; it is easy for students to write on, teachers are advised to print off any 4 consecutive pages for the students according to ability, there is a monitoring document available to record results and monitor progression, and a huge variety of topics are covered in every page ensuring excellent coverage of the Curriculum. This is both a revision and homework resource which is easy to mark. It is a precursor to my bundle of 36 GCSE assignments designed for the new specification 2016, and suitable for US teachers as an excellent set of resources to challenge students and evaluate progress.
Numeracy Overview display
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Numeracy Overview display

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This simple document proposes a structure or framework for developing a numeracy overview and potential scheme of work. It covers the basic numeracy and applied mathematics skills that students who pursue more vocational routes in the long term are likely to need.
Developing good revision and study habits
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Developing good revision and study habits

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This document contains some helpful advice to support students and parents with employing techniques that are both effective and simple. The second page comprises a questionnaire which is aimed at helping students to self-evaluate in respect of the effectiveness of their current study habits, and to identify the key strategies that can be easily used and that can make a tangible difference to examination outcomes.
French Linear Programming problem: Qui habite dans la montagne?
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French Linear Programming problem: Qui habite dans la montagne?

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This is a problem solving activity where students must follow the clues given in French to complete a table and decide which of the 5 people lives in the mountains. It should take between 20 to 30 minutes for students to solve and is aimed at students who have been learning French for at least a couple of years. The solution is provided on the second page.
Prime Factor Decomposition
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Prime Factor Decomposition

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A series of worksheets to provide practice for prime factor decomposition, writing values as products of prime factors, using decomposition to understand properties of square numbers and cube numbers, decompose algebraic terms, and apply decomposition to the process of finding HCF and LCM. This can be used in conjunction with my 'Steps for Success' document and the section on 'Factors and Multiples' in that document.
Indices worksheet
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Indices worksheet

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Questions based on simplifying powers and roots with answers. This worksheet provides some summaric practice of the topic.
Steps for Success for applying mathematical methods
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Steps for Success for applying mathematical methods

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A student support document to assist with revision and with tackling home assignments independently. The document covers a range of topic areas and specifies stepped approaches for applying mathematical methods such as estimated means, factorising quadratics, applying basic and more advanced Trig, dealing with direct and inverse proportion etc.