32 weeks of quick mental numeracy questions which are to be completed in form time. Each session should take between 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
Over 600 question per year in total:
Year 7 and 8 workbook. NEW: MIXED QUESTIONS ADDED EVERY TWO WEEKS
NEW: YEAR 9 HAS NOW BEEN ADDED
Topics include the following:
Times tables
Division
Powers of 10
Multiples and factors
Negative numbers
Simplifying fractions
Fractions of amounts
Simple adding and subtracting fractions
Converting between FDP
Percentages of amounts
Squares and cubes
Collecting like terms
Averages
V1.0
1. Starter on percentages of amounts
2. Mental methods on percentage increase and decrease
3. Calculator method on percentage increase and decrease
4. Examples include the bar model to help pupils understand that the original amount equals 100%
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Adding and subtracting fractions.
1. Adding and subtracting fractions using diagrams (same denominator)
2. Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator.
3. Adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.
4. Adding and subtracting mixed numbers.
5. Activities include problem solving and RICH tasks.
6. Examples come with diagrams to help pupils gain full understanding.
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1. A PowerPoint demonstrating the properties of quadrilaterals and how to work interior and external angles of them.
2. A well differentiated worksheet designed to maximise progress.
3. The PowerPoint contains detailed solutions to the worksheet.
5 Lessons:
The Radius: Working out the gradient and length of the radius
The Tangent: Working out the equation of a tangent and applying it to solve problems
Equation of a Circle: Drawing circles from their equations
Solving simultaneous equations graphically.
Solving simultaneous equations algebraically.
Four Lessons:
Enlarging positive integer scale factor
Enlarging positive integer scale factor and centre of enlargement
Enlarging by fractional scale factors
Enlarging by negative scale factors
Lessons include:
Small steps
My turn/Your Turn
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Reasoning questions
Non-examples
Mastery Approach
1. A PowerPoint taking pupils through interior and exterior angles of polygons.
2. A well designed worksheet encouraging pupils to investigate interior and exterior angles. Two differentiated activities on finding interior and exterior angles allowing pupils maximise their progress.
3. PowerPoint includes answers to the worksheet.
Updated with fixes to worksheet
A PowerPoint demonstrating how to find the area of a circle.
Investigation starter allowing pupils to find the relationship between the radius of a circle and the area of a circle.
A well designed and differentiated worksheet on areas of circles allowing pupils to maximise progress
PowerPoint contains detailed answers to the worksheet.
1. Powers of 10: looks at multiplying and dividing decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
2. Multiply and Divide by Powers of 10: looks at multiplying and dividing numbers by 0.1, 0.01, 1/10, 1/100 etc.
3. Both lessons are well differentiated.
4. Now with a newer resource for more able pupils.
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1. A PowerPoint designed to prompt pupils to fully understand 3D shapes.
2. A worksheet allowing pupils to investigate Euler's Formula. Questions within the worksheet are well differentiated to allow pupils to maximise their progress. Pupils will also investigate Platonic shapes.
3. Pupils will gain a full understanding of Prisms and Pyramids.
4. Pupils will gain knowledge on Polyhedrons and Non-Polyhedrons. Pupils will be able to explain why a Cylinder is not a Prism.
5. All misconceptions are addressed in this lesson.
Introducing pupils to percentages.
Converting fractions into percentages.
Finding simple percentages of amounts.
Highly visual approach to allow pupils make max progress.
A bundle containing highly visual and detailed activities on all things angles.
The activities are well differentiated and allows pupils to make maximum progress.
Each activity has a corresponding PowerPoint taking pupils through the different facts.
Each PowerPoint has detailed solutions to the activities.
Complete lesson on using the multiplier method.
Starter: Converting percentages to decimals
Main 1: Percentages of amounts
Main 2: Percentage increase and decrease
Key Question: GCSE past paper question (AQA)
Each exercise contains reasoning and problem solving
Examples and answers included
Worksheet free
1. PowerPoint demonstrating fractions of amounts (Includes visual examples)
2. Worksheet containing two activities and an NRICH task (Includes visual questions for differentiation)
PowerPoint and worksheet designed to allow all pupils make progress and fully understand how to find fractions of amounts. This is done by illustrating the problems on the PPT and having a worksheet that is well differentiated.
Answers included.
Quadratic sequences at KS3.
WALT and WILF
Part 1: Using position to term rule to find the first few terms of a quadratic sequence.
Part 2: Finding the position to term rule of a quadratic sequence.
Part 3: Problem solving and RICH task.