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.
These two multiplication tables can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Multiplication of two numbers (repeated addition) is a fundamental skill that is demonstrated through many other parts of the curriculum such as finding the area of a shape, calculations with fractions, working out percentages of an amount, and money problems.
Suggested uses:
Print individual copies to stick into exercise books
Print and laminate to use as a mini whiteboard (with a pen)
Crop the images into a slideshow presentation
Crop the image into an interactive slide
Print, laminate and pin to a display board
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
These dice can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Add the element of chance into games and other activities that practice many skills across the curriculum including number and calculation, plotting coordinates and translating objects.
Each dice comes with a minimum of three options:
Blank
Dots
Numbers
Other dice include:
Shapes
Roman numerals (coming soon)
0-9 and 1-10 numbered dice
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
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Create your own Present (easy), Christmas tree (medium), or Angel (hard) using the nets provided. This is a fun, creative, mathematical activity that is a real joy for students during the run up to Christmas.
A full set of instructions is provided as well as a list of what you need.
Get creative by using other craft supplies to make these baubles really sparkle!
**Merry Christma(th)s! **
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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 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:
Multiplying numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using a formal written method
Multiplying whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000
Multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000
Multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to 3 decimal places
Dividing numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division
Multiply mentally, drawing upon known facts
Divide mentally, drawing upon known facts
Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers
Using written division methods in cases where the answer has up to 2 decimal places
Multiplying 1-digit numbers up to 2dp by whole numbers
Division of integers up to 4-digits by a 2-digit number (short and long division)
Solving problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
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 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:
Adding numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.
Subtracting numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.
Adding whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column addition).
Subtracting whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column subtraction).
Solving addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
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:
Establish whether a number up to 100 is prime
Description of Activity:
Hand each pair of students at least 2 sets of shuffled 0-9 cards. Share the cards between the players to create two piles of cards which each player keeps face down. Each player takes it in turn to turn over one card and place in a neat pile in the centre. If the two sequential cards are a prime number, both players should call out “Prime”. The first player to do so wins the centre pile. The winner is the player to get all the cards.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided
(PLUS A BONUS GAME)
Students practice using partitioning to calculate percentages of an amount without a calculator, writing their answers in the space provided.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for KS2-KS3 in class / homework / private study
Differentiation strategies and Teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers provided.
This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
3N1b: Counting from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (7 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 17 marks.
All solutions provided.
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Surprise your friends and family with this mathematical Christmas card!
Instructions
Students select 6 colours for their diagram. A suggested key is below but students can feel free to use their own colours. Cut out a key for each student to colour in (see Key Cards)
Students colour in the key, so they know which colour represents which number solution.
Students then complete each calculation in the image and colour it with the correct colour.
All calculations use basic arithmetic of + - × ÷ with a few calculations using two operations.
They can then add their own decorations to the card and write a festive message inside.
Send it to a friend or family member for Christmas wishing them a very Merry Christma(th)s!
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Solve maths problems to help Santa get ready for Christmas Eve!
These puzzles could be grouped together or used individually.
As always, answers are provided.
Merry Christma(th)s!!
Puzzle Descriptions:
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Where’s Rudolph?!
Help Santa find all of his reindeer! The reindeer are placed around a + set of axes so students will have to use their knowledge of coordinates to write the location of each of them. Look out for Rudolph!
Bonus activity: Working in pairs, students can plot the location of presents around the axes e.g. a present is located at (4, -5). Students can then draw different presents in these locations.
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Sleigh Ride
Help Santa deliver the presents to the house at the centre of the maze. Students can complete the maze and then write a set of directions so that he can find the house next Christmas.
Bonus activity: After completing the maze, students can write a Christmas story describing his journey.
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Help Santa herd his reindeer in time for Christmas by using Pythagoras’ Theorem to determine the distance they are from Santa’s sleigh.
Suitable for KS3 who are already familiar with Pythagoras’ theorem.
All solutions are provided (in surd form and to 3 decimal places)
Merry Christma(th)s!!!
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This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
5N3b: Read Roman numerals to 1,000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (8 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 18 marks.
All solutions provided.
This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
4N3b: Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C).
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (9 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 19 marks.
All solutions provided.
HEAD START GCSE Maths
160 marks of GCSE style questions to revise for Paper 3
Model answers NOW INCLUDED.
The majority of questions are 2-5 marks, looking at a variety of fluency, reasoning, and problem solving questions.
Question 31 has been updated.
These questions have been designed in line with the AQA specification.
This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
5N3a: Determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1,000,000.
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (8 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 18 marks.
All solutions provided.
This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
6N3: Determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 10,000,000.
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (9 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 19 marks.
All solutions provided.
This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
6N2: Read, write, order, and compare numbers up to 10,000,000.
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (8 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 18 marks.
All solutions provided.
This end of topic test is designed to test student knowledge of
4N3a: Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones)
This test has two parts:
Part 1: Key Skills (10 marks),
Part 2: Problem Solving (9 marks).
The time allowed for this test is 20 minutes.
This is a non-calculator test.
Total: 19 marks.
All solutions provided.
