I wanted to bring my maths classroom closer to the real world, and specifically the problems and changes that we face. I wanted a resource that would raise awareness of important issues in society, invite discussion in a maths classroom, and spur action. So these resources place key percentages skills in the context of society’s challenges. **Students work with percentage change, percentage increase, and percentages of amounts. ** It provides an opportunity to practice problem solving in new contexts, and highlights the power that maths has to quantify issues and help address them. The numbers and statistics are all very close to the real numbers, often rounded to make it easier to work with in a classroom. Feel free to add your own and adjust and help take maths into the world and its challenges!

A worksheet that was cobbled together to help with similar shapes when they are drawn joined together.

A worksheet for practising expanding brackets.

A couple of worksheets I put together to try to train students in the style of questions on ratio common in the new GCSE.

A collection of resources to help with teaching angles in polygons. 1 is an investigation to help students identify the rules at work 2 and 3 are two different length activities to practise the skills students have learnt. 4 is a Spot the Mistakes activity to encourage students to identify, discuss and correct misconceptions.

An activity designed to support students struggling with inequalities and number lines, keeping it simple.

A basic activity to encourage students to work with proportion and to learn the unitary method.

An introductory resource for forming and solving equations, designed to help lower sets prepare for the skills of inverse operations.

An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the two GCSE questions. Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.

An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the the questions. Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.

A few exercises for teaching exchange rates and working in proportion.

A collection of resources I used to introduce proportion and the unitary method to lower sets.

Activity for scaffolding area of a circle. Differentiated into three different difficulties.

A collection of exercises I used alongside expositions to develop understanding of probability. 1 is a basic activity for forming probabilities. 2 encourages students to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in a GCSE question to check for understanding. 3 begins to use tables for probability. 4 is designed to recap key skills learnt.

A resource used to quickly recap scatter graphs with a lower GCSE set.

An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the three questions. Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.

A basic exercise to get students practising drawing angles accurately using a protractor.

A differentiated activity encouraging students to convert fractions into equivalent ones.

A resource created using a mixture of questions for problem solving with circumference of circles.

An activity designed to help students with misconceptions. Students need to identify, discuss and rectify mistakes in the GCSE question. Print out individually or for pairs and put up on the board to discuss.