This is a lesson where the students learn to calculate speed. There is a word search to put on the board as they come in (to fulfil the literacy part and they are all maths words so you can get them to put them into sentences), and they can come up and have a go. A lesson plan is embedded in the title page. Then some rounding to the nearest whole number questions, there is a calculator embedded so you can show them what to do. You can show them a video on the London Olympics which is embedded and then there are some questions to see how much information they can remember. You then calculate the speed of divers rowers and runners. You can change the speed to km/h and talk about how you would do that. The students then complete a worksheet, this again is embedded, it askes the students to identify the sport(there are dashes _ _ _ _ _ to give them a clue to how many letters there are in the name) and then using the information they have been given work out how fast the athletes are going. This is differentiated and colour coded for some of the students who will struggle, this was created for a very mixed ability group. There is an extension task to calculate the distance and time for those that can move on. Plenary Finally, there is a top gear clip of a car and plane, you have to calculate the average speed, to differentiate that you could get some students to calculate the speed in Km/h or mph. It’s a fun speed lesson.

This is the same lesson in two different formats, Promethean and PowerPoint. It is using the Minecraft character Steve and the fact they use blocks to build their world in the game. It starts by getting the students drawing shapes using isometric paper (this is attached as a PDF from a free printable resource). The paper is also projected onto the board so you can show the students how it works (It’s normally the vertical sides they will get wrong). There are a few shapes they will copy off of the board, they can all do this on the paper, but also some students can come up and have a go on the board. You then introduce Steve (a Minecraft character) and he needs to build a house, you get the students to draw all the combinations the house can take. There is then a price attached to the upkeep of the house, and ground rent, so each house will have a different cost, so they have to work out which is the best shaped house to have. The students then write a little report on what they have found, and which is the best option and why. It could be less painting required, it could be the cheapest, easiest to build, there is no correct solution unless you specify the criteria that they find the cheapest etc… This does work nicely as a group activity once the students can draw the shapes because they can discuss which they think is the best.

This is a double lesson for Probability, it starts with a multiplication starter. The probability words are then introduced and an answer sheet is embedded for the students to write their own sentences on (they generally struggle with evens, don't allow them to have weather). A power point is embedded to introduce the number line and the students have to work out where the images or Yoda and Elvis go (it may sound odd but it will be more obvious when you see it!) There are parts where the students can come up to the board and put the fractions/percentages and decimals in the correct place (if you print these pages out, everyone can do them). There are questions on throwing dice and pulling coloured balls out of a bag which can be done practically. The Monty Hall problems is included with videos, then the game is on a few slides along with a game linked to the net. The plenary gets the students into groups at the front of the class and they have to work out if they are correct.

This lesson has a puzzle to display on the board as the students enter, its not easy but the solution is on the next slide. The starter is to create a pictogram of Harry Potter characters. Each student picks a character and the they watch a clip and keep a tally of haw many times that character appears, they then come up to the board and use Dobby to create the Pictogram. Stem and leaf diagrams are then introduced with questions on how many spells Harry Potters friends cast each week. They have to calculate the mode median and range and also percentages. There is then a whole class question about texting and a stem and leaf diagram can be drawn form their data. There is a completed stem and leaf diagram as a Plenary where the students have to make a decision about a race, who is quickest, girls or boys?

This is a functional skills lesson about money, the intro is a flag quiz (cross curricular with geography) the students have to identify the country from the flag. There is then a series of questions on the weather which involve a power point showing the weeks weather and a series of questions. You then do some mental maths involving dice and cards (cards 1-100 included). There is then a shopping list with various product and students have to work out the cost of some of the items. An image of Thorpe park is shown and questions asked about the entry costs for different amount of people and they have to see if there is a short cut. The prices are included to be run out, so students can find the best price package for a particular event. A piece of HW is also included.

This is a complete lesson on calculating probability. It starts off with a play your card right game you can play with the students and decide how they work out how to go higher or lower. You then go on to fill out two-way tables and answer questions on them. There is a question on choosing the colours of ipods. You then go onto combining events and answering two exam questions. You then introduce them to listing outcomes systematically and possibility space diagrams. The lesson finishes by introducing tree diagrams and one including a bias coin.

This is a complete trig lesson (lesson plan incl). It has a factorising starter, a recap of Pythag which allows a discussion of when to use what. You start with labelling the side, learning the triangles and SOHCAHTOA or the rhyme. There are then questions to go over as a group to calculate sides, with descriptions of where TRIG is used in real life. Then you go on to calculate angles. To finish there is a question on the swaying empire state building. (It is better to complete this over at least 2 lessons)

Here are two files full of Dingbats, the students will find these difficult to start with but as they start to understand them they will get quicker, there are roughly 80 of them (the solutions are hidden but there if you need them) at the end of each file are some I have made that will be the groups name 10Y2 or a house name or tutor group, I make a lot of these for my A level groups and they have to guess the topic they are learning that day, they enjoy them and they become very competitive! The are good fun!

This is a block of 3 lessons which introduces students to differentiation, it has 4 indices and surds questions, then has questions on y=mx+c so you can talk about gradients, then gets the students to re-arrange linear equations to find the gradients of them. Lesson 1: You then draw graphs and tangents and calculate the gradient of the curve via triangles. The gradient of a tangent as a limit is explained by drawing 3 different chords and calculating what happens as the chord get closer to the point on the curve. Lesson 2: After this you introduce differentiation, with a single term and then a polynomial, there are questions with solutions and a sheet for HW. Lesson 3: You then introduce the idea of a gradient=0 and what it would look like, the stationery points are shown and the second derivative is introduced, and calculated to show the nature of them.

The lesson has a money question on the board to solve as the students walk in. The grades of what they will be completing is on the next slide. A starter question can be projected on the board and the students have to identify a bar chart, a histogram and a frequency polygon by moving the labels to the correct diagram and justify why they have chosen that one. Next you look at a Bar chart and discuss what needs to be labelled on there. There are 3 Bar charts to project and you can ask the students various questions to se if they can read off the data, there is also a compound bar chart where the students can come up and put the bars in the correct place. On the next slide is a power point with animated cars, from this the students complete a frequency table, then a bar chart and a pictogram. They tend to enjoy this as they collect the data and can colour in the cars. Finally there are 3 bar charts that can be run out and you can create the data to go in there.

This is the 3rd in the set of 3 lessons (all 3 are available in a bundle) There are starter questions which look at simplifying surds. Then you look at how to convert from fractional powers to surds and visa versa. You can then look at fractions and how to combine them with indices, The last two slides are to do with differentiations, if you haven’t covered this you can just change the 2nd slide from surd form into indices.

This lesson starts off with a coordinate game of bingo. The students then need to come up to the board and put the compass points in the correct place and identify which is anti-clockwise and clockwise. There are a couple of maps which you use to get the students to give directions from one place to the other. There are questions with maps that the students need to measure with a scale. Lastly there are 8 maps with questions on a worksheet which i.s embedded on the final page

This is the 2nd in the set of 3 lessons (all 3 are available in a bundle) Here the students have a Thunk as a starter. You will introduce the idea of any number to the power of zero and how to prove it using the powers of indices. Students will use a calculator to see if they can work out what the fractional indices ate doing to the number, make sure they write the questions down and keep the solutions as fractions, or they will struggle to spot what’s going on. Then negative powers are introduced and again the students need to decide what’s going on. There is a worksheet embedded, a power point to use as an extension where 5 out of 10 questions are correct, the students have to decide which. There is a plenary flipchart embedded with a set of questions where the students have multiple choice answers that you can use an activote pod, or ABCD cards etc, or get them to do it as a quiz.

This lesson is in Promethean. It is the 4 of 4. Here the students will draw scatter graphs and look for correlations between the body dimensions. There is a jigsaw starter, scatter graphs to explain how they work and true/false plenary.

This is in Promethean. It has starters of rounding, finding percentages and using a calculator. 3 videos are embedded from Top Gear and you discuss what is happening. You then talk about speed camera's and what information they need to calculate the speed. You then have a work sheet of 4 people who go past 4 average speed camera's and you have to work out if they get speeding tickets. how much they pay in fines and if they keep or lose their licence.

This is the first of a set of 3 lessons on Indices (all 3 are available in a bundle) The power and root starter can be projected onto the board and printed out so the students can fill in the sheet and spot the problem that they have no solution for. Then the three laws of indices are introduced and each time the students have 7 questions to complete. A power point is also attached with these on. There are then 6 mixed question which also introduces algebra as well as just numbers. 4 more complex questions will then be tackled as a group. Plenary – here they need to work out the powers of numbers by using the 3 laws they have learnt.

As a starter, there are 7 general questions with solutions The title page has the lesson objectives on and has a student’s worksheet which can be run out. The grades for this topic can be displayed so the students know what level they are working at. As a whole group you can fill in the table of values and explain how they will be plotted. There are then 4 graphs that you can plot with the students so they can see how to draw a curve. As a plenary, there are 4 questions to complete, the students can write them in their book and work out what the missing words are.

This is an nrich activity that has been put together as a flip chart Firstly the students will play the game against the computer and they will need to work out what strategy the computer uses to win, you can print this sheet out and they can play in pairs with counters. You then look at the area of tilted squares and find the two ways you can calculate the area. I have added a table that can be filed in so you can derive a general formula for and 1up tilted square, this will generally take a lesson, you can extend it to be any tilted square.

This lesson has a multiplication starter which students can come up to the board and complete. There is a THUNk which gets them discussing things. The lesson is all about being able to draw and identify quadrilaterals. It has images you can rotate to show rotational symmetry There are several card sorts the students can complete to see if they understand about the properties and a set of taboo for the plenary they can try

This is a treasure hunt that you run out and stick to the walls, of if you want the students to really hunt, you can stick them under desks, chairs and to the ceiling etc. The solutions are in the circles on each sheet. The students chose which sheet to start from, they can choose any it doesn’t matter. They write that solution in on the answer sheet and then answer the question and find that solution and write that one in the next space. The questions include averages, estimating from tables, scatter graphs, pie charts, CF curves, box plots, probability, tally charts and two way tables. These are in order so when you check the solutions in order from 7.

This is a complete lesson to introduce more complex differentiation. It has a quick surd starter to have on the board as the students enter. There is an AS exam questions to calculate the minimum surface area of an open topped tank to remind them of all of the basics. You then re-cap on a function of a function which has a power point of who wants to be a millionaire to test to see if they understand these. Students will expand double brackets to differentiate but what if you give them a bracket to the power of 24? You then introduce the chain rule and work through the questions on the board. Each one has at the bottom hand written solutions which you can drag up. There are then 9 questions with increasing difficulty on one slide for them all to try and again the solutions are to the side and can be bought across.