Use the order of operations (BIDMAS) to reveal a secret maths joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice the order of operations. This product contains 3 different levels of difficulty: order of operations with multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting - BIDMAS with brackets and the 4 operations - BIDMAS including indices. This will keep students really busy and help them to check their own working as they go. This is perfect for consolidation on the order of operations if you don’t want to use a traditional worksheet. Each difficulty is colour coded (blue =easy, gold = medium, red = hard). All the answers are included. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses) Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each) See here for other BIDMAS resources See here for other code breakers.

This negative numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising multiplying and dividing with negative numbers. Skills include multiplying with numbers between -12 and 12 and dividing with numbers that are multiples of -12 to 12. Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This negative numbers maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more negative numbers activities, including mazes and worksheets.

Adding and subtracting negative numbers mazes. 8 mazes with full solutions are included, great for use in a lesson on negative numbers when you don’t want to use traditional worksheets. Skills include positive subtract positive, negative subtract positive, negative add positive, negative add negative, subtracting a negative and a mixture. This is a fun way for students to consolidate adding and subtracting negative numbers. This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. Included in this product: 1 x positive subtract positive maze 1 x negative subtract positive maze 1 x negative add positive maze 1 x negative add negative maze 1 x subtracting a negative maze 3 x mixtures of the above mazes Recommended uses for this activity ★a revison tool for students who have complete a unit on negative numbers ★A task for quick finishers and more able students ★ A starter to check for prior learning Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. Click here for more negative number resources, including lessons worksheets and treasure hunts.

This rounding to the nearest 10 BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising rounding. Skills include rounding numbers up to 100 to the nearest ten. Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! Try out a Rounding BINGO for free here. This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This rounding maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more rounding activities, including mazes, dominos and treasure hunts.

This Rounding To The Nearest 10, 100 or 1000 With 3 or 4 Digit Numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising rounding. Skills include rounding numbers from 600 to 9999 to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand. Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! Try out a Rounding BINGO for free here. This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This rounding maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more rounding activities, including mazes, dominos and treasure hunts.

Students will find rounding to decimal places and significant figures more engaging with these sets of dominos. Great to use as a starter or plenary in a lesson on rounding to decimal places or significant figures, or as a starter to check for prior learning when teaching something like Trigonometry or Pythagoras. Skills include rounding to 1 decimal places, 2 decimal places, 1 significant figure, 2 significant figures, 3 significant figures and a mix of all. This activity is a fun and novel way for students to practise rounding to decimal places and significant figures. They can start on any domino they like, answer the question, find the answer on a different domino then repeat the process. If they have answered all questions correctly they should end up back at the domino they started with. Why dominos is a great activity: Students can check their own answers They will complete 20 questions in a way that is completely different from standard worksheets Students find it fun to search for and find the answers They can be laminated to be used again This pages contained in this product are: Contents Instructions Rounding to 1 decimal place Rounding to 1 decimal place Answers Rounding to 2 decimal places Rounding to 2 decimal places Answers Rounding to 1 significant figure Rounding to 1 significant figure Answers Rounding to 2 significant figures Rounding to 2 significant figures Answers Rounding to 3 significant figures Rounding to 3 significant figures Answers Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 1 Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 1 Answers Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 2 Rounding to significant figures and decimal places mix 2 Answers Working out sheet 1 Working out sheet 2 Suggestions for use: • Give to pairs for a collaborative activity • Give one each to a group of students and they need to find their answer and make a line • Give to individual students to complete on their desk • Once students have completed a set give them the answers as evidence of their accomplishment/get them to take a picture of the finished loop and stick it in

This Halloween maths codebreaker uses skills learnt in ordering decimals, substutition, length conversions and coordiantes to reveal halloween jokes. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practise ordering decimals, substitution, metric length conversions and coordinates in all 4 quadrants. Each skill has a different sheet, so there are 4 total worksheets all with awesome Halloween clip art and answers included. The skills included here are normally covered in year 7 but could be used for any year group as a fun consolidation. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a halloween joke. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses) Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each) See here for a FREE Halloween codebreaker that uses multiplcation skills. If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

This Easter maths codebreaker gives students lots of practice at their times tables which helps them to reveal a groan worthy Easter Joke. A fun maths starter or reward for early finishers in the run up to Easter. UPDATED - swapped the m and t over. Similar to my Halloween codebreaker freebie which is a “TES PICKS” resource. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal an Easter joke, fun Easter clip art pictures included. If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.

This Halloween maths adding and subtracting negative numbers maze will give students lots of practise adding and subtracting up to 3 negative numbers. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Great for a starter/plentary or early finishers near Halloween. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate adding and subtracting negative numbers without using a traditional worksheet. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This product includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Halloween clip art. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Halloween maths activities.

Differentiated worksheet on rotations, perfect for use in a transformations unit. Skills include: rotating a shape on a square grid, rotating a shape on a co-ordinate grid and describing the rotation. Fully differentiated by colour - 3 levels of difficulty have been included: • Blue (easy) - rotating a shape on a square grid •Gold (medium) - rotating a shape on a coordinate grid •Red (harder) - describing the transformation All answers included. Updated - Fixed question 3 as it was rotating off the grid. Fixed a couple of typos and one of the answers. Fonts updated and embedded. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here If you need a rotations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here

A lesson on translations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skills include translating a shape when given worded instructions, translating a shape using vectors and describing the transformation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Translate given shapes on a square grid/coordinate grid Gold:Use vector notation for translations Red:Describe fully a translation This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach translations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) [Free Translations treasure hunt available here](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/translations-treasure-hunt-11809584 Additional translations worksheets available here

This is a lesson on function machines which includes a powerpoint, workbook and treasure hunt. Objectives include finding outputs of function machines, inputs of function machines(using inverse operations), operations and creating expressions using function machines. This is a time saving resource for busy teachers. You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue: Find the output of a function machine Gold:Use inverse operations to find the input of a function machine Red:Find the operations of a function machine Challenge (Purple): Use function machines to create expressions This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections •A treasure hunt for using inverse operations to find the input of a function machine • Full answers The PowerPoint includes the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples •A miniwhiteboard AFL check •Answers to the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) You can input your own grades to reflect your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet (in the first table) if you input a grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson at least. Click Here for more function machines resources. Including worksheets and treasure hunts.

This Valentine’s Day themed colour by number will give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Valentine’s Day. The Picture will reveal an assortment of hearts! Great for display! Use as a plenary, for early finishers or a fun activity. It’s also great if you want students to practice and consolidate times tables skills without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to answer the question and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal an picture. There is also a clip art border for students to colour in. This product includes: ♥A Color by Number sheet with questions ♥An Answer sheet for teachers ♥♥ Find other Valentine’s Day Maths resources here ♥♥

A lesson on reflections for use in a secondary transformations unit(whoe unit available here). Power point and work booklet for teaching reflections are included. Skills covered are reflecting a shape in a line on a square grid, reflecting a shape across a straight line on a coordinate grid, describing the reflection. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Reflect given shapes on a grid. Gold:Reflect given shapes on a coordinate grid using a line such as x = 2 Red:Describe fully a reflection. This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach reflections, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) FREE reflections differentiated worksheet available here

This Easter maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Easter, and better still they are actually doing work! Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal an Easter picture. This particular picture reveals a chick popping out of an egg. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Want more Easter multiplication activities? Click here for a multiplication codebreaker. If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.

This indices BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising index laws. Skills are most appropriate for foundation GCSE and include multiplying, dividing and raising a power to a power (brackets). Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This indices maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more indices activities, including worksheets and a foldable revision guide.

Differentiated worksheets on Enlargements for students to complete in class. Skills include positive enlargements, negative enlargements and fractional enlargements all colour coded for difficulty. This is most suitable for Challenging KS3 students and Higher Tier GCSE. I also have a one suitable for KS3 and Foundation tier which only includes positive and fractional scale factors (The questions are different on each version so if you buy both products there are no duplicates). In this product 4 levels of difficulty have been included: Blue (easy) -Enlarge an object by an integer scale factor from a centre of enlargement Gold (medium) -Enlarge an object by a fractional scale factor from a centre of enlargement. Red (hard) -Enlarge and object by a negative scale factor from a centre of enlargement Purple (challenging) Describe fully an enlargement; work out a scale factor and centre of enlargement. Updated - fixed a couple of wrong answers. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here

A cross word and wordsearch for Geometry key words. Best used for KS3 but could be used for KS2 and KS4. I have included a crossword and word search with definitions instead of just words to find as it can be a good way to check students understanding of vocabulary (plus they love a wordsearch!). For less able students there is a word search with just the key words on and no clues. This product includes: 1 cross word with 26 clues and answers 1 word search with 26 clues and answers 1 word search 26 key words to find Need a number key words word search or crossword? Click here Need a algebra key words word search or crossword? Click here