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Conceptual & immersive mathematics resources for developing a deeper understanding.
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Conceptual & immersive mathematics resources for developing a deeper understanding.
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π¦ Real-Life 3D Shapes π¦ Faces, Edges & Vertices
A simple worksheet linking 3D shapes to real-life objects and asking students to count their faces, edges and vertices.
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π Minecraft Collecting Like Terms π Simplifying Algebra Laminate & Starter
A Minecraft-themed worksheet on collecting like terms with progressive difficulty. Designed to be printed two-per-page to create colourful A5 laminates. Includes a PowerPoint starter and an extension question on substitution.
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π½ Algebra Mega Mix π½ 6 Colourful Algebra Lesson Starters π½ Varying Challenge π½
Six colourful algebra lesson starters with varying difficulty.
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Cornish Corner Shop - Excel Sheet for Percentages & Finance
A simple Cornish-themed Excel sheet for students to use Excel formula to calculate profits based on sale percentages. You will have to provide them with values and targets, such as calculating total profit with 10% off in the winter and 5% surcharge in the summer. Unprotect the Excel sheet to extent this resource.
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π Space Chase π Inequalities Starter
A space-themed question to get students thinking about how inequalities can be used to represent real-life situations and to develop their understanding.
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π Collecting Like Terms π Computer Activity with Real-Life Situations
A series of worksheets on Collecting Like Terms designed to be completed in the computer room. There is an interactive Excel sheet for students to enter their solutions and a web browser file that lets students access the worksheets from a school shared folder.
Note: There is a typo on the Excel sheet and I have lost the password to unprotect and correct it. Sorry! Challenge your students to find it!
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Rearranging Equations / Changing The Subject - PowerPoint Questions - Progressive Difficulty
A PowerPoint with progressively difficult questions on rearranging equations and changing the subject.
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β Brain Chains β Challenging Mental Maths Starter
Very challenging starter with 5 Brain Chain Levels. No pen/paper allowed. Brains only!
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π³Word Roots π³Etymology for Improving Understanding & Cross-Curricular Links
Guidance for teachers to start using word roots to help students to understand technical words, to make links between different words/subjects, and to improve their spelling.
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π A-Level C1 Polynomials Pack π Introduction, Binomial Expansion, Polynomial Division...
A selection of PowerPoint presentations and other resources used for teaching C1 polynomials. Includes an introduction, binomial expansion, polynomial division & factor/remainder theorem.
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π Plotting Graphs π Collaborative Activity
A simple but effective set of worksheets for pairs of students to create equations for each other to tabulate and plot. Engaging and extendable.
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π Linear Graphs & Formulae π Engaging & Effective Laminate
This is a simple, colourful worksheet designed to be printed and laminated. It starts with a simple conversion graph but incorporates concepts of gradient and formulae as it progresses. It has a real-life context that engages and is relevant to students.
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Sπlving Linear Equations Worksheet - Self-Discovery & Increasing Challenge
Uses simple yet carefully-designed equations that develop a deep understanding of the fundamentals of solving equations. Can be used as a self-discovery exercise whereby students are not taught how to solve equations, but must explore which value for each letter would make the equation true.
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β¬ Solving Algebraic Pyramids β¬ Increasing Challenge - PowerPoint Presentation
11 algebraic addition pyramids with an increasing degree of challenge.
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πΆ Quadratics πΆ Completing The Square - Investigative Questions
Designed for Year 12 students to gain a deeper understanding of completing the square through investigation. Also suitable for high-ability GCSE students. Creative and engaging questions.
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πΎ Algebra Mega Mix 2 πΎ 6 MORE Colourful Algebra Lesson Starters πΎ Varying Challenge πΎ
ANOTHER six colourful algebra lesson starters with varying difficulty.
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π Core 1 Algebra Assessment with Full Solutions π Creative & Engaging Questions
50-mark practice assessment on challenging C1 algebraic manipulation. Creative and humerous questions to engage your students. Feel free to change the names to students in your class. Potentially suitable for high-ability GCSE students.
Includes two BONUS resources on the same topic and in a similar style!
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π Essential Teacher Resources π Timetables for Revision, Parents' Evening & Teachers
The most interesting resource here is my idea for a FLEXIBLE revision timetable that worked very well with my daughter and was later loved by many of my students.
The most important rule is: You don't fill anything out in advance.
Let's say on Monday you really feel like doing some maths (obviously) and also your French teacher has set you a revision task. So you spend the evening studying maths and French. I usually advise between 30 mins and an hour on each subject depending on the strength of the student, so a total of 1-2 hours per evening. After studying, you fill out the Monday slot with what you actually did e.g. Maths: Trigonometry, French: Shopping vocab, and, most importantly, you cross off an "M" and an "F" from the subject grid at the end.
This is repeated all week, but you're only allowed to study subjects that you haven't crossed off. By the weekend you're left to study the final remaining two subjects, and this ensures that you spend a fair amount of time on every subject without forcing you to do a specific one each day. This also leaves Sunday free to either relax or to catch up with any subjects you missed during the week for whatever reason.
The subject grid can be modified to include multiple squares for more important or weaker subjects. For example in the attached version English is Poi's second language so we assigned three out of the twelve slots.
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π An aesthetically-designed set of timetables for a biweekly teacher's timetable.
π A simple Parents' Evening timetable to put outside the room for parents to refer to.
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π Behaviour & Classroom Environment Resources π Contracts, Seating Plans etc...
All resources will need to be adapted for your own classes. This resource includes:
π A behaviour contract.
π A colourful poster of student birthdays.
π A detention reflection sheet.
π A list of expectations for students to categorise in a two-way table of what they expect and don't expect of me, and what I expect and don't expect of them.
π A sheet for students to provide feedback on the lesson.
π An aesthetic seating plan PowerPoint.
π A sheet for students to submit who they want to work with.
π A sheet for students to have a say in which teacher they get the following year.
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π Resources for a New Class π Info Sheets, Book Inserts & Activities
A selection of thoughtful resources to use with a new class, including:
π Guidelines for a student "Neat Book": A personalised revision guide, separate from their normal book of solutions and workings, where they explain clearly their own understanding of each topic for future revision and for peer teaching.
π A student info sheet where they have to draw pictures to represent their interests and career plans for you to incorporate into future lessons.
π An introduction to the classroom rules & ethos.
π An student voice activity for students to rank what they think is most important to learn.
π An insert for students to create a Contents Page for each Learning Objective and rate the topic for understanding at the start and end of the lesson, and to rate their enjoyment and participation.
π A sheet for students to write down their hobbies and interests so that they can be incorporated into future maths lessons.
π A poster for the classroom door asking students to line up in alphabetical order.
π A multiple choice PowerPoint where students have to guess which of the interesting things I have really done in my life (you can adapt it for yourself of course). [PLOT TWIST: All the options are true for me!]
π A discussion for a new teacher to have with a mature class.
π Scrabble Game: Students work out the score of their name by adding the letter scores, e.g. BEN = 3+1+1=5. Then see if you get a different class winner if you work out the product instead, e.g. BEN = 3x1x1=3. For more advanced classes you can work out the exponent (3^1^1=3) and discuss the order that the exponent operation follows.
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