Here at Head Start, I care about providing you with quality resources that are simple and effective to use in the classroom. Resources currently focus on the 7-14 age range (KS2-KS3), specifically looking at the Number aspects of the curriculum, but watch this space for new resources coming your way, including NEW GCSE RESOURCES!
I have been working as a Maths Educator for over 10 years and am very passionate about supporting students with their Mathematical knowledge, and confidence in Maths.
Here at Head Start, I care about providing you with quality resources that are simple and effective to use in the classroom. Resources currently focus on the 7-14 age range (KS2-KS3), specifically looking at the Number aspects of the curriculum, but watch this space for new resources coming your way, including NEW GCSE RESOURCES!
I have been working as a Maths Educator for over 10 years and am very passionate about supporting students with their Mathematical knowledge, and confidence in Maths.
This activity is designed to practice:
Establishing whether a number up to 100 is prime.
Description of Activity:
Students should be handed a 1-100 number square. Circle the number 2 then cross out all the other multiples of 2. Circle 3 then cross out all the other multiples of 3. 4 is already crossed out so circling the next number would be 5; cross out all the other multiples of 5. Continue this process until the final number is circled (97).
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
adding and subtracting with negative numbers
Description of Activity:
Students complete each diamond by adding the two squares next to each other to get the square above and subtracting the two squares together to get the square below. See example.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and Teaching Hints and Tips provided.
All answers provided.
Negative Number Sequences
This activity is designed to practice:
count backwards through 0 including negative numbers
Description of Activity:
Students roll the 10-sided dice twice (see printable resource). The first roll is the starting number, and the second roll is the step count backwards. Students can then complete the answer grid (an example is provided). The more correct numbers they generate, the greater the number of points they receive. This game can be played in pairs with the first player to complete their grid being the winner.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and Teaching Hints and Tips provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
interpreting negative numbers in context, counting forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero.
Description of Activity:
Students are to calculate with negative numbers in real life contexts including temperature, car parks / stairs and money and write their answers in the space provided.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and Teaching Hints and Tips provided.
All answers provided.
Students play this game in pairs. Each pair has two piles of shuffled cards: Percentage Cards and Amount Cards. Before students select their cards in each round, they must decide whether the answer which is Higher or Lower is the winner. Each player then takes a percentage card and an amount card from each pile. Both players work out their percentage of their amount and check their opponent’s answer. The player who has the higher (or lower) answer as determined before the cards were chosen wins and keeps the cards. When one pile is empty, the player with the most cards wins.
This activity is designed to practice:
solving problems involving factors and square numbers
Description of Activity:
Students should complete the table by writing all the factor pairs, listing the factors, and then writing the number of factors for each original number. Each original number in the table is a square number.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in class / homework / private study.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
identifying multiples and factors
Description of Activity:
Students should work their way across each maze by following the path using only the required number properties.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in class / homework / private study
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Multiplying numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using a formal written method
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each calculation individually using a formal written method of their choice (e.g. grid method) and write their answers clearly.
Each question is progressively more challenging.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in Year 6 - 7 transition in class / homework / private study
All answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Subtracting whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column subtraction)
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each calculation individually using a formal written method of their choice (e.g. column subtraction) and write their answers on the answer line provided.
Each question is progressively more challenging.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress
Suitable for Year 6 to 7 transition in class / homework / private study
All answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies including teaching hints and tips included.
This activity is designed to practice:
Adding whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column addition)
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each calculation individually using a formal written method of their choice (e.g. column addition) and write their answers clearly.
Each question is progressively more challenging.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for Year 6 -7 transition in class / homework / private study.
All answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies including teaching hints and tips included.
This activity is designed to practice:
writing decimal numbers as fractions
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each calculation individually and write their answers clearly in the space below the question. Questions vary in difficulty from easy (red border), medium (yellow border) and hard (green / blue border).
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in year 6 - 7 transition in class / homework / private study.
All answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
Description of Activity:
Students should colour in / highlight the correct values within each grid and answer any questions that follow.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers provided
Description of Activity
Students should complete each question individually and write their answers within the cross number.
If a number contains a decimal point, the decimal point is placed in the same square as the unit digit E.g. 314.2 is written as: 3 1 4. 2
Questions vary in difficulty, rounding to decimal places, integers, and other powers of 10.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Answers are provided within the cross number.
Teaching hints and tips provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each target on the dartboard by writing the equivalent fraction, decimal or percentage.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in Year 6-7 transition in class / homework / private study.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided (differentiated resources included).
All answers are provided.
This HEAD START bundle is designed to practice key mathematical skills and challenge current levels of understanding to support with the transition from Year 6 to Year 7.
All questions are designed to follow the National Curriculum for England.
Suitable for students in Year 6 - 7 transition in class / homework / private study
Each resource / activity is designed to help students recognise their strengths, and areas for development within Number, specifically:
*Writing numbers with up to 3 decimal places.
*Identifying the value of each digit in numbers given to 3 decimal places.
*Reading and writing numbers with up to 3 decimal places.
*Writing percentages as a fraction with denominator 100.
*Writing decimal numbers as fractions.
*Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages.
A description and suggestions on how to use each resource / activity along with a few hints and tips and differentiation strategies, are provided on the final page of each document for some inspiration, however, these are designed to be flexible and so feel free to adapt for your own requirements.
Answers to all resources / activities are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
writing decimal numbers as fractions
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each calculation individually and write their answers clearly in the space below the question. Questions vary in difficulty from easy (red border), medium (yellow border) and hard (green / blue border).
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in year 6 - 7 transition in class / homework / private study.
All answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Writing percentages as a fraction with denominator 100
Description of Activity:
Card sort activity. Students should match up the percentage card to an equivalent fraction written over 100, and another equivalent fraction.
Suitable for students in Year 6 - 7 transition in class / private study.
Could be completed as a homework if stuck down.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Writing percentages as a fraction with denominator 100
Description of Activity:
Skills Practice:
Students should complete each conversion in the table individually by shading the correct number of squares in each 10x10 grid and write the fraction as the answer clearly in the box provided.
Next Step:
Connect the percentages to the correct fraction match up.
Each question is progressively more challenging.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in Year 6 - 7 transition in class / homework / private study
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Key works related to Number
Description of Activity:
Individually find all the key words that feature in the list of words alongside the word search.
Suitable for students in Year 6-7 transition in class / homework / private study.
Answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
Two different word searches are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Solving problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these
Description of Activity:
In pairs, roll one of the differentiated pre-made dice to decide the operation between the two numbers in the question. Write the answer into the step ladder, with the largest answer at the top, and the smallest answer at the bottom. The first player to complete the ladder with the solutions in order, wins.
Suitable for students in Year 6 - 7 transition in class / private study.
Not suitable as a homework.
All answers to all possible questions provided.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
