A set of worksheets and cards to help pupils plan a music festival given a set budget, they can gain money from stalls but they have to have security etc, they can also produce a lineup poster (an example one included) to say what they would have playing and decide how much they would charge for a ticket. This is a good budgeting porject and one that the pupils are quite enaged by, there is a selection of bands however it may need to be adapted to suit your pupils

Comes with a slightly kinaesthetic building of a cube and a pyramid activity then measuring the cube or pyramid they've built and calculating areas and volumes.

These functional maths worksheets encourage pupils to use probability and work out gambling statistics using imaginary money. They can make and track real life bets and investments and see if they make money. Normally they don't and this can serve as a useful link to citizenship about the hazards of gambling Also included is a roulette sheet that links in some probability.

a worksheet on compass points and bearings good for lower ability pupils

a simple worksheet getting pupils to measure angles using a protractor

simple sheet that gets pupils to undertake research and compare prices of different holidays, it extends it by getting them to find information for the bus and train as well, may need adapting for different areas as it is currently based on northern airports and flight providers

A collection of worksheets I made for a cover lesson about fractions students shade in the pokemon to match fractions good for low ability but with some challenge added, also included is a convert percentages to fractions and shade 75% etc of a pokemon

a good homework sheet possibly for pupils to plot a graph of the conversion rates between different currencies and then answer some simple questions using that graph

Cover sheet, simple starters and unit assignments for the BTEC money and finance skills course, there is also some excellent resources at Nationwide educations website

I used this as an assessment for my pupils when they reached the end of the topic on maps for their GCSE course. I downloaded two model towns off the internet one from iceland and one from paraguay (the website was called bogus places, can be found by searching for free paper models) and got the pupils to construct a 3d town and then asked them to use their knowledge of maps scales and bearings to produce a map of the town describe how to get to one of the places and produce scale drawings, when the project is finished it makes a really nice display

a simple sheet that gets pupils to think about how to balance items on scales, this can be used to get pupils starting to think about equations

Functional maths worksheet. A worksheet that asks pupils to use the wolfram alpha internet search engine to research and carry out some calculations

a whole lesson booklet on what the best packaging for smarties is, including starter sheet and level ladder. Also has lots of premade nets for pupils to make into different 3d shapes and try them out by putting a trial size amount of smarties in each one, pupils could calculate volume and area of the packets and as an extension activity they could work out which packaging would allow the most smarties to be transported in a packaging box

a simpe introduction to circles with a range of questons ranging from simple to extension

a simple worksheet on simplifying fractions for KS3 pupils

a set of cards that will need laminating (time consuming but when done can be used for a every class) that allow the pupils to choose a football team with a budget, that involves them working with large numbers, they then have to look at statisitcs and pick a statistically good team and see if the prices differ, i did this as a short project but could be extended by enetering both teams into the schools fanatsy football league and seeing which team performs best, you could also look further into sabermetircs (made famous by the film moneyball) and it's use in other sports

a maths assessment sheet aimed at level 3/level 4 borderline based on xbox achievements pupil can unlock achievements by completing tasks dong this gets them the full colour version of the achievement allowing you to track their progress, my pupils really buy into assessments using this technique

a worksheet comparing haribo with own brand sweets, tally data, produce pictograms and calculate best value, a good resource for BESD pupils

Developed for an entry level math group, I designed this to give students an idea of how dangerous loans and credit cards could be it could also be a good citizenship resource

a good summer activity that gets pupils looking at the cost of different types of accomodation at music festivals and drawing graphs of the data