Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!). Includes: Christmas tree (moderately easy) Bauble (medium) Candy cane (easy) Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard) Geometric christmas stocking (easy) Elf (Hard) Santas head (medium) present (easy) For each shape there is the following types of sheets: An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4 A big template which are on their own A4 page Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly. The geometric Christmas stocking is available as a free product here. Click here for more Christmas maths resources

This Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of finding the mean, median, mode or range. A fun seasonal activity to engage students before Christmas AND they are still doing work! Great for a starter/plenary or early finishers. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate finding averages without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to find the averge from a list of given numbers and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal a Christmas Tree. Fun Holiday clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄A question sheet with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

This Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of simplifying surds. A fun seasonal activity to engage students before Christmas AND they are still doing work! Great for a starter/plenary or early finishers. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate simplifying surds without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a surd in them and students need to simplify the surd given and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal Father Christmas. Fun Holiday clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄A question sheet with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

This Christmas maths colour by number activity will give students lots of practice of finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines. A fun seasonal activity to engage students before Christmas AND they are still doing work! Great for a starter/plenary or early finishers. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate parallel line angles facts without using a traditional worksheet. Skills covered include: ❄Corresponding angles ❄Alternate angles ❄Co-interior angles ❄Vertically opposite angles ❄4 questions where students have to use either corresponding or alternate angles AND angles on a straight line to find the missing angle There are a total of 26 questions included. All the squares have a number in them and students need to find the missing angle and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal a christmas stocking. Fun Holiday clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄2 question sheets with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

A lesson on rotations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skils covered are rotating a shape around a given point on a square grid, rotating a shape about a set of coordinates and describing the rotation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder) This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach rotations, 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)

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 Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in finding the mean, median, mode and range to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice finding averages.All the answers are integers. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each) See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills. If you would like more Christmas themed math 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.

Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!). Includes: Geometric christmas stocking (easy) For this shape there is the following types of sheets: An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4 A big template which are on their own A4 page Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly. More Christmas tessellations are available here. Click here for more Christmas maths resources

This Christmas/Holiday maths one step equations maze will give students practice with their solving equations skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. Great for a starter or early finishers near Christmas. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate solving equations without using a traditional worksheet. The maze uses positive values of x only. 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 freebie includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Holiday clipart. Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Christmas themed activities.

This Christmas maths measuring santa’s angles fun activity will give students lots of practice of measuring angles. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. The resourceh has 3 different sheets - measuring obtuse angles, measuring acute and obtuse where the lines are not parallel with the paper edge and measuring reflex angles. Perfect for any class that need to work on different skills. Answers included. If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

This Christmas maths colour by number fun activity will give students lots of practice of simplifying indices, including multiplication, division and brackets. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas where they are still doing work! Great for a starter/plenary or for early finishers. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate index laws without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to simplify the expressions and color in all the squares that correspond to their answer in the color given in order to reveal a Christmas pudding. Fun Christmas clip art border included. If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click 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 Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving one step equations to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice solving one step equations. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each) See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills. If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.

This Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving equations with unknowns on both sides to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice solving equations. x could be negative or positive and some questions also require students to expand a single bracket before solving. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each) See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills. If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.

This Christmas maths colour by number fun activity will give students lots of practice adding and subtracting decimals up to 2 decimal places. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas where they are still doing work! Great for a starter/plenary or for early finishers. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate adding and subtracting decimals without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to answer the question and color in all the squares that correspond to their answer in the color given in order to reveal Rudolph. Fun Christmas clip art border included. This product includes: ❄A Colour by Number sheet ❄A question sheet with space for workings ❄An Answer sheet for teachers If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

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 treasure hunt for students to complete in class. Answers and student record sheet included. They have to describe the following types of transformations: -enlargements -rotations -reflections -translations

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.