This pack contains two activities to motivate using a protractor and ruler carefully. 1. Impossible Constructions This activity requires students to try and draw a series of shapes, with the knowledge that at least one of them is impossible! For example, can they construct a triangle with two obtuse angles? Why? Why not? 2. Draw that Space Ship! This activity requires students to try and make an accurate version of a space rocket. They must draw lines and angles accurately in order for the spaceships to turn out correctly. There are two different Space Ships for students to work on, of increasing difficulty! Answers are included.

Transformations Pack: Students must reflect, rotate and translate different shapes to reveal the secret pictures! Pack contains: Translations Mystery Picture Suitable for younger students just learning translations and vectors. Reflections Mystery Pictures 1 & 2 Also suitable for younger students just starting to learn about reflections in a mirror line. The second version uses the co-ordinates axes and the line y = -x as mirror lines. Rotations Mystery Pictures 1 & 2 Students will need to be able to rotate 90 degrees and 180 degrees about a point. Most students will need tracing paper. The first version is on the co-ordinate plane and all rotations are about the origin. Mixed Transformations Pictures 1 & 2 These activities require students to use translations, reflections and rotations. Combined Transformations Pictures 1 & 2 These are the most difficult pictures to complete and require students to do multiple transformations to each object in order to find its place. The second picture takes place on the co-ordinate plane. Answers are included and can be checked at a glance, making it easy for students and teachers to know whether things are on track!

This pack contains three activities designed to support GCSE students in plotting and interpreting reciprocal and exponential graphs. It includes: 1. Drawing & Understanding Reciprocal & Exponential Graphs This contains worksheets where students must work out the co-ordinates for a series of exponential and reciprocal functions and plot their associated graphs, in order to see the shape made. Following on from this is a set of questions designed to probe understanding and get students thinking about where the functions are defined and the co-ordinates they will pass through. 2. Asymptotes To help students understand the shape of reciprocal and exponential graphs, this set of PPT slides is designed to give students a chance to understand why and where asymptotes will occur. 3. Graphs Match This activity is designed to be used when students have studied a range of graphs, including reciprocal and exponential functions. It contains graphs of quadratic, cubic, circle, linear, reciprocal and exponential graphs that students must match to their equations.

A set of worksheets covering all of the required Venn Diagrams topic for the new GCSE 9-1 Maths syllabus. Includes: - Shading sections of Venn Diagrams based on set notation - Finding probabilities from Venn Diagrams - Completing Venn Diagrams from given information - Conditional probability with Venn Diagrams - Identifying exhaustive, mutually exclusive and independent pairs of events from Venn Diagrams These worksheets match perfectly with our interactive teaching tools at MathsPad.

A set of matching activities to help students practise finding the missing sides and angles in triangles using SOH CAH TOA. This pack includes four activities: 1. Label the Sides Worksheet A quick activity for students to label the sides as opposite, adjacent or hypotenuse to get them ready for using SOH CAH TOA. 2. Matching Activity 1 (Sin & Cos) Students must use the sine and cosine ratios to find the missing sides in a set of triangles. 3. Matching Activity 2 (Sin, Cos & Tan) Students must use sine, cosine and tangent ratios to find the missing sides. 4. Matching Activity 3 (Angles) Students must calculate the missing angles in a set of triangles and match them to their answers. All activities include answers and are easy to check as students can record their answers in a table, meaning you can quickly assess if they are on the right track.

Three activities aimed at GCSE pupils working on the surface area and volume of prisms, pyramids, cones and spheres. 1. Surface Area of Cuboids Odd One Out In this activity students must decide which cuboid in each row has a different surface area to the others. There is also an extension activity based around finding the missing dimensions of cuboids given their surface areas. 2. Volume and Surface Area of Prisms Worksheet This worksheet asks students to find the surface area and volume of a range of different prisms, including a cylinder cut in half. The worksheet is designed to make it easy to check for understanding, since students must record their answers in the table given. 3. Volume of Pyramids, Cones & Spheres: Which volume is largest? This activity requires students to compare solids and decide, in each row, which solid is largest? Includes prisms, pyramids, cones and spheres. Now Updated To Include Additional worksheets on spheres, cuboids, prisms, cones & cylinders.

This pack is designed to help students develop an understanding of equivalent fractions and to give them multiple opportunities to practise. It contains: 1. Introducing Greedy Monkey A set of PPT slides and follow up worksheets that tell the story of a greedy monkey who wants to eat 5/6 of three different cakes. The first cake has been cut into six pieces, so it's easy. But what if the cake has already been cut into 12 pieces, or more? How many should monkey eat so that she ends up eating 5/6 of the cake? The idea is to develop the understanding that she would need to eat twice as many pieces of cake, because each piece is half as big, and then to generalise this to other denominators. 2. Follow on Activities: Matching Activity, Maze & Dominoes Three activities that could be used to give practise in a lesson, or for homework. Students must match equivalent fractions into groups of 3, find their way through a maze by shading equivalent fractions and pair up a set of dominoes. 3. Exit Slips Quick exit slips that could be given out at the end of lesson to check on understanding.

This pack contains four different activities to help students who need to work on the order of operations. Including: 1. Bidmas Code Breaker A code-breaking activity where students have to calculate using the correct order of operations to spell out a secret message! 2. Bidmas Matching Activity A self checking activity where students can find the answers to their calculations jumbled up at the bottom of the sheet. 3. Bidmas Maze Students need to find their way through a maze by deciding which statements are true and false by considering the order of operations. 4. Bidmas Puzzles These puzzles require students to find the missing numbers in a set of calculations.

A set of problems where students must compare a picture of a cuboid and its net in order to work out missing dimensions and surface areas. Feedback below is very appreciated :) Like this resource? We have activities on the surface area and volume of cones, spheres and pyramids here (£).

Multiplying Decimals: Using Related Calculations A free worksheet where students must use one given calculation, e.g. 19 x 23 = 437, to work out the answers to related calculations such as 1.9 x 23 = 437. Includes answers.

Rotation Symmetry: A collection of worksheets and activities on all rotation symmetry topics: Rotation about a central point Describing Rotations (direction, degree & centre) Rotation Symmetry Designs (Great Display Work) x 2 Rotation Symmetry Mystery Picture Order of Rotational Symmetry Designs Order of Rotational Symmetry: Quadrilaterals Rotation Symmetry on a Co-ordinate Grid Answers are included for each worksheet.

This pack contains a variety of activities to support students working on the area of triangles and compound shapes. It includes: 1. Area of Triangles Worksheet Pack This includes three different activities. In the first task, the triangles are drawn on squared paper and progress from simple right angled triangles that can be visualised as half of a rectangle, to triangles that need to be broken into two right angled triangles. The second activity, Match Three! follows on from this, where students must work out the area of triangles drawn on squared paper to match triangles with the same area. Finally, there is a final worksheet where students will need to think creatively to work out the area of the triangles, by, in some cases, drawing rectangles around them and subtracting triangles. 2. Triangles: Biggest Area? This activity requires students to measure the side lengths of a set of triangles and determine, in each row, which is largest. 3. Area of Compound Shapes This jumbled answers activity requires students to break shapes down into rectangles and triangles in order to calculate their areas. 4. Area of Compound Shapes Magic Square This activity is for students who have mastered the basics of triangles and includes a variety of compound shapes where students must use the dimensions given to work out areas. The activity also includes one trapezium. Answers are included for all activities.

Quadratics: What do you know about this quadratic? Students are given a quadratic equation and asked to work out: its factors where it crosses the axes what its graph would look like what it would be in completed square format where its minimum point is They are then given three other quadratics to work on, but are provided with different starting information - i.e., if they have the graph, can they work out the factors? Updated May 2018 Now with 2 additional bonus activities: Properties of Quadratic Graphs Worksheets Students have to identify the roots, turning point, y intercept and line of symmetry from a graph or function. Recognising Quadratic Graphs Activity Students have to match quadratic graphs to their functions by considering roots, y -intercepts and whether the co-efficient of x^2 is positive or negative. All activities include answers.

A set of magic squares for students to practise adding negative integers. Includes answers. Need more on negative numbers? We have a set of activities and puzzles here.

This pack contains three activities to support students learning to calculate a percentage of an amount: 1. Percentages Mystery Grids Students have to use a set of clues to work out the mystery numbers in the grid. For example, 'The number in the top left is 20% of the number in the bottom right'. There are 3 levels of difficulty. 2. Percentages Grid Puzzles In these activities students must work out the missing numbers in a series of percentage statements. Sometimes they have to work out the missing percentage, as well as the result of the calculation. 3. Starter Cards / Exit Slips A set of cards that could be used as a lesson starter, or an exit slip to see how well students have understood. They can be printed double sided, so that students have their own answers on the back of their card. Alternatively the answers are provided for you to project onto the board. Each page contains 8 cards. 4. Who's Born When Puzzle Students must use the clues to work out how many children were born in each month of the year. This puzzle requires some logic and the ability to calculate simple fractions and percentages of an amount.

This pack contains three different activities to give students plenty of practice at calculating with negative numbers. 1. Adding & Subtracting Negative Numbers Mystery Grids Students have to solve clues involving adding and subtracting negative numbers to work out the missing numbers in the grid. For example, the numbers in the top row add up to -10. Includes 3 levels of difficulty. 2. Multiplying and Dividing Negative Numbers Mystery Grids As above, 3 puzzles involving multiplying and dividing negatives. 3. All 4 Operations: Puzzles Students must work out where the missing numbers go in these puzzles to make the calculations true.

A series of activities for students to practise rounding to a given number of significant figures and estimating calculations. 1. Significant Figures True or False Activity This activity contains a grid of statements about how numbers have been rounded, such as '54.5' has been rounded to 2 significant figures. Students must shade the eight statements that are true. The format of this activity makes it easy to check if students understand the concept and there is a second version of the puzzle that could be set at a later date as homework for revision. Answers are included. 2. Significant Figures Grid Puzzle & Multiple Choice Questions This contains two activities. The first is a grid puzzle where student must decide where to position a set of numbers in order to make a series of statements true. There is also a follow up worksheet with some straightforward practise and multiple choice questions about significant figures. Answers are included. 3. Estimation Worksheet This is a worksheet for estimating calculations by rounding to 1 or 2 significant figures. It also has a section to practise estimating square roots. A set of starter questions are included for discussion with students. Includes answers.

This pack contains three worksheets related to the new GCSE objective on systematic listing and counting strategies. Worksheet 1: Systematic Listing Aimed at Foundation Tier students, but also good practice for higher, a set of problems based on systematically listing all the possible options in different situations. Worksheet 2: Product Rule (Multiple Groups) This sheet requires students to use the product rule in situations where they need to work out the total number of options from several different groups. Worksheet 3: Product Rule (Single Group) This activity is a further set of product rule questions, but slightly more challenging as it includes questions where students must select items from the same group. (For example, the number of ways of selecting two boys from a group of 8). Answers are included for all three worksheets.

Three activities to support students working on place value & decimals. 1. Reading & Writing Decimals Match Students must match together numbers and statements about their place value. For example, 0.62 matches with '2 hundredths'. The questions all involve the numbers 1, 2 and 6, so students really have to think about the place value of the numbers shown. They can also record their matching pairs in a table, which makes it easy for you to check if they are getting them right and provide feedback. 2. Place Value Puzzles This activity contains two pages of puzzles all about decimals and place value. Puzzles range from 'guess the number', based on clues about place value, to comparing and ordering decimals using inequality symbols. 3. Adding Decimals Code Breaker A code breaker activity where students have to add decimals to reveal a secret message. The decimals are of different lengths so students will need to use some written methods. Answers are included for all activities.

Similar Triangles Snap: In this activity there are 14 triangles and students must match them into pairs that are similar. Once they have matched them into pairs of similar triangles, they must then use the fact they are similar to work out the missing sides and angles. Congruent Triangles Snap: As above, there are 14 triangles and students must match them into pairs that are definitely congruent. They must then work out the missing sides and angles. As an extension, pupils could also use the sine and cosine laws to work out the missing sides and angles in the triangles. Answers for this are included. Tags: Similarity, Similar Triangles, AAA, SAS, SSS, Congruent, Congruence, Congruent Triangles