A PowerPoint on the everyday real-life costs of money: tax, NI, Bills, Loans. This activity helps students use maths to explore living costs and make some calculations.

Welcome back to Year 10 - looking at the road ahead recognising that a successful exam outcome includes committment, responsibility and good behaviour choices. In front of them is a blank storyboard and it's up to the individual pupils to fill their board appropriately if they want a say in how the 'story ends'. Luck is not really a part of it, but negotiating the obstacles in their path and making positive choices really needs to be there. I've just put this together for next week - if it any use to others out there please feel free to use this :)

I created this for a low/middle ability KS4 group. The grid of expressions is intended to be printed, laminated and cut up and a set given to each pair of pupils. Pupils can select what level of difficulty of question they feel confident to attempt using any combination of green/yellow/red cards. To encourage them to challenge themselves if they can there is a solutions grid which has a scoring system which increases alongside the difficulty. Pairs can 'compete' with each other to get the best score. I have printed the answers and the scoring grid back to back and laminated this also; so whilst they are working the score grid is uppermost on the desk and then can be flipped over at an appropriate time for checking answers. PLEASE NOTE I SPOTTED A TYPO ON ONE OF THE BOXES OF THE SOLUTIONS AND HAVE AMENDED IT NOW. (If anybody else does happen to see any other errors please do let me know and I will correct them too). I hope you find this helpful.

This addresses some of the reasons people may have for not wanting to do this role and tries to turn each one on its head and gives the basis for additional exposition in assembly.

This was used with a mid-level KS3 class. Its objectives were to interpret geometrical infomation from coordinates. It brought out considerations such as height, width and symmetry. The activity is differentiationable (is that a word!?) as pupils can find the midpoints through plotting coordinates, comparing the x and y ordinates or by averaging the corresponding ordinates when they have explored the activity. There are some ideas for questions on some of the slides and printable sheets at the end of the powerpoint for the starter and for support in differentiating the main activity. Please let me know if you enjoyed this task.