A few pie charts that represent funny ideas or jokes. The idea is that students get a feel for how pie charts work. I used it as a Y7 starter to generate discussion. The 'how often charts don't make sense' pie chart is particularly good for this. As always, please rate and comment with suggests and ideas. Thanks :)

Example problem pair Two activities Some application questions Learning check NOTE : I update my slides often but don’t always get around to reuploading them here. The latest version of this PowerPoint can always be found at this link.

Full lessons. Covers a few discussion points, and goes through how to find experimental probabilities from tables. You should probably print off the questions as they go over two pages.

A lesson (or six) on adding and subtracting fractions. A shed load of stuff here. Example problem pairs. Tons of practice and puzzles and problem solving exercises. Pick what you want to show and go.

Simple but comprehensive. Goes through dividing integers that make decimal answers all the way up to dividing two decimals. Some example problem pairs, some exercises, a ‘correct the work’ exercise, a little learning check. Use bits you want, chuck out bits you don’t. I wrote the questions to encourage thinking.

CHANGELOG 4/10/21 Fixed some formatting errors Simple stuff. Example problem pairs, so exercises. I’m sure there’s loads more interesting things you can do here. I used some extra stuff I found on resourceaholic for some practice. Probably at least 3/4 lessons in these slides.

There is tons here. Enough easily for a weeks worth of work. A starter, some whiteboard work, some problem solving, an exercise (with answers) , plenaries, all broken down into adding and then subtracting directed numbers.

Simple Powerpoint on reading timetables with a starter, example problem pair, an exercise, exam question and plenary.

Covers how to draw a frequency table, continuous and discrete data and finding the mode from grouped and ungrouped frequency tables. Has a starter, some example problem pairs, some questions (that aren’t amazing tbh) and a plenary.

Lesson in a PowerPoint Starter Example problem pair Whiteboard work Exercise Problem solving type question to work on together Plenary - 5 Quick questions

Introduction to vector geometry. Includes examples and two exercises. One on simple questions where you just have to add the vector ‘routes’ and one that throws in some mid point stuff. NO PARALLEL LINES, COLINEAR POINTS OR PROOF HERE

Trying to aim for a mastery/in depth lesson, rather than getting all the index laws done in one lesson. Huge credit to Jo Morgan (@mathsjem). Nicked a lot from her for this resource. CHANGELOG: 2/10/22 Updated new style. Added some whiteboard work.

Full lesson on equations of parallel lines. Exercises with answers included.

I’ve updated this massively. I’ve thrown lots of stuff out. It’s now quite barebones (warm up/example problem pair/mini whiteboard work/exercise/plenary).

Both using vectors drawn on a grid, and finding the magnitude from a column vector.

Full lesson Lots of whiteboard work Three exercises. Concentrating on writing the inequality. No manipulation.

Trying to use variation theory My thinking A question to start Reversing the terms. Does balancing still work? A subtraction. How does this effect our balance. Does reversing the terms still lead us to the same answer Increasing the constant by one. What happens? Also: a decimal answer. We can have a negative answer Divide x, instead of multiplying it. Increasing co-efficient of x by one. What happens to our answer? Doubling co-efficient of x. Not sure about these last two. I think they may be a step back from question 7. This is the problem with presenting these in a linear format. These questions are variations on question 1, not question 7. I might experiment with some kind of spider diagram. Doubling the divisor from 7. Again, maybe the linear way these are written is a bit rubbish. Don’t know how I like the order of these questions, but there’s lots to think about and something to tweak. I have found the transition to asking ‘why have they asked you that question? What are they trying to tell you?’ has been difficult for some students, but I think it’s worth devoting time to it. If students are inspecting questions for things like this, maybe they’re more likely to read the question thoroughly and pick out it’s mathematics. Big hope, I know.

An example problem pairs. Loads of practice. Some more puzzly bits.

Writing big numbers and small numbers, with a prelude on different powers of ten. Example problem pairs, and some exercises. Full lesson (or two)

Changelog: 2 new sections. Changed some answers to address more misconceptions. Completely redone version of maths pointless. The countdown is now much, much quicker (as requested). New questions will also be coming in an update over the following weeks. Play over numerous rounds and keep score on the board. All credit to Paul Collins.