Used as an extension activity for a mid-ability year 10 group. Prior to this, pupils had worked with expressions and creating them from worded problems and instructions.

Used as a consolidation activity for year 8's. Pupils work in groups and are given clue cards and a graph. They share the cards out equally and must communicate what is on their cards without showing anyone the actual card. The aim is to discover facts about the murder after having constructed a graph to support their theory.

Used in the Kangaroo Maths Stage 7 scheme of learning (Investigating Properties of Shapes). Students are provided with the solids on their desk and are given a brief description on faces, edges and vertices. Students complete the table using information provided, the cheat sheet is used to encourage independent learning. (They should already know the names of the solids, but may need encouragement)

Increases in difficulty towards the end of the game. Used for a low ability year 10 group, but can be used with other levels and age groups. Challenge questions are usually something that can be completed on the board. Feel free to correct any errors on there, this is one I made during my PGCE.

Expanding upon a resource shared on TES by kilskeery1. This resource was used as a follow-up lesson to introduce unknowns into function robots and to enable lower ability pupils to become accustomed to how expressions and equations can be created. Differentiated into 4 levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum) which scaffold from simple calculations using known numbers, into two step calculations involving unknowns.

I made this for a small group of my top set year 8's. Because of the group size, the level range is quite large (Lowest 6C, highest 7A) and it becomes very tricky to differentiate. This was created for a lesson on general factorisation, and was provided to the top tables after they had practiced some difficult linear factorisations. Since they are very strong, their independent learning skills are excellent, and they thrive on challenge. Worked very well for them. Could also be useful as a revision aid, I've not tried it as that yet, but probably will in the near future.

I found it really difficult to find resources that worked and matched to the Kangaroo Maths scheme of work, so I created this sheet for my mid-ability year 7 class. The sheet is differentiated 3 ways for 3 separate objectives, designed to build fluency and confidence in using algebraic notation and creating expressions. Print double sided so that students can check their answers as they work through it.