This resource will delight lovers of magic. Pupils are asked to choose a number and follow a set of instructions to reveal a number which the crystal ball predicts. There are four puzzles with positive integer answers and 2 with negative integer answers. This then leads into algebraic explanation with one puzzle and then pupils are asked to try it on two more. The algebra needed is multiplying out brackets and collecting like terms. Finally the pupils are challenged to invent their own puzzles to try out on a friend.

Sid the Astronomer is watching the skies. He sees a Galaxy, Mars, Jupiter or Saturn. Pupils have to predict what he will see. The images are from Hubble. Pupils can then see how many they predict correctly and the class data can be used to find mean, median, mode and range. Useful for revision.

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.

Extend pupils' vocabulary with this animated resource. There are 40 slides with interesting, carefully chosen, and some unusual words. Harmony, maximum, pamphlet, whump, ricochet, quibble, derelict, smatter, shatter, gruesome. Definitions include: "a dull thud", "break suddenly in pieces", "calm, serene, unruffled", "noisy quarrel or fight". Beware the bloodthirsty cry!

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.

Colourful monster characters invite pupils to cover a 6 by 6 square with 1/4, 1/3, 2/9, and 1/12 of 36 with a square or rectangle in order to reveal a hidden square. For the second challenge pupils have to find 1/4, 1/5, 1/20, 1/10, 1/25 and 2/10 of 100 to reveal a hidden square. This pair work gives an opportunity for practical activity and discussion. Square numbers, fractions of an amount and shape are included in this fully animated resource. The last task is open ended where pupils can invent their own challenge.