This resource doesn’t ask students to multiply or divide, instead it gives the students the answer and asks them to work out what is happening.

Today’s resource can be tricky it combines the skills of expanding out brackets and simplifying with area and perimeter. Each question on this resource could be used as a separate activity or the sheet could be used for homework. It really tests the understanding of expressions and area and perimeter with some reasoning style questions included. There is a lot of problem solving involved in this, my favourite being question 4 which took a while to put together as well as answer. This could easily be extended as you will see at the end of the resource to include fractions, percentages, averages and spread. You could even go further and ask students to substitute a value for x into the expressions and arrange the shapes via order of size (but if you do this please note this resource was designed for only expressions and so the shapes were not drawn to scale) I really hope you enjoy, please give me feedback (especially if you come across any mistakes). This will be available on TES until Monday 13th August.

This power point resource has two activities, the first asks the students which is the correct answer and the next asks the students to play the part of being a teacher and they have to mark the answers. This activity could be done as a starter or a main task, it identifies misconceptions within this topic. I would suggest this to be done in pairs which ensures any discrepancies are discussed between pairs and with the whole class. Check out https://mentor4maths.wordpress.com/ for updated daily resources over the summer.

This resource could be used as a starter to get students to think. The students are asked to match the fraction to the image, answers are provided.

This week’s first Crossover Resource looks at formulae and data analysis, where students are given data, formula and have to answer questions after inputting the data into the formulae. They then have to decide which is the best graph for them to choose to best display the data. This could be adapted to add in some challenge or more depth my exploring the ways that data could have been collected, why do different people have different journeys and what factors could affect the journey to work. More to come!

I struggled to find some questions to test pupils long multiplication skills, therefore I created this differentiated resource for a year 7 class. The red questions are there to provide support to those pupils who are struggling by providing the answer and hence they just need to fill in the middle section. The amber is there to get pupils thinking about which numbers could be replaced by the letters. The green section asks pupils to identify the error and make the correction. For challenge I have asked the pupils to think about which makes a larger number, multiplying a two digit by a two digit or multiplying a three digit by a two digit, and is it always true? @Mentor4MathsUK

This is just a small differentiated resource as part of my planned lessons for year 7 BIDMAS

resource to help visualise equivalent fractions

A resource for adding fractions to make a whole

The final of this week’s installment of resources is crossover with ratio, area and perimeter. Not only will the students be practising calculating perimeter and area it also gets them thinking about scale factors and what happens to the area (a skill they will not come across until maybe year 9). Lengths are a mixture in fractional and decimal form so they are practicing skills of multiplication and division also.

This resource could be used as a starter, and is designed for pupils to be able to work out the fraction of a shape. This could be adapted to work with percentages.

Pupils are provided with some lego and a set of instructions. I have purposefully changed the order of the instructions. After following the set of instructions the pupils should have an object that doesn't resemble the picture of the lighthouse. This will open a discussion about why that is, why is the order of the instructions important? Then ask students to work out the correct order of the instructions. How is this related to maths, well the order of operations, (BIDMAS) is very important and hence by following the correct order of instructions you will end up with the correct answer.

This resource offers examples, reasoning, problem solving and fluency. I hope you like it.

This question links volume with quadratic and linear equations, and with unit conversion. The idea behind it is students look at the question which is quite detailed and wordy, and the series of powerpoint slides will help the students to identify the key parts of the question. Please read the notes of the powerpoint for some guidance to ask the students question. Thanks.

am currently preparing for September lessons and we are starting with addition and subtraction. This resource asks students to put the symbols in between the numbers to make the number sentence correct.

A resource designed for challenge with prime factor decomposition. Finding HCF and LCM with prime factors decomposition, or finding the original number given the prime factors. Feedback welcome.

Students need to get into pairs or more and find the missing answers. Some of the turntables already have the sum to help guide the students to the correct answers in the questions. Some turntables do not and the students have to get the correct answers and then the sum of the answers. Some turntables have missing numbers and students are asked to find the missing numbers. Please provide feedback, or visit www.mentor4maths.co.uk

This weeks crossover problems will focus on fluency reasoning and problem solving with area and perimeter. Today’s problem focusses on regular and irregular 2D shapes, asks questions to tests students understanding of area and perimeter as well as students understanding of prime, square, cube, multiples and factors. This resource can be found on my TES page and can be downloaded for free until Friday 10th August. If you like the resource please provide feedback. Thank you!

A nice little starter for a fractions lesson. You show 4 images on the board, three of them show the same fraction, one does not. The students have to work out what the fraction is, and then decide which fraction is the odd one out. They must state their reason. I am working on more images for this and will put them on here, and Mentor4Maths website when complete.

This resource is a differentiation task on prime factors decomposition.