As a highly skilled teacher with four years of experience, I have been recognized as a TES recommended author for my interactive resources that make Maths easier to plan and engage with. Many of my resources involve the use of Powerpoint or Excel to create engaging and progressively difficult exercises that foster calm lessons and encourage excitement in learning. I am committed to designing resources that are repetitive yet engaging, and I am always looking for new and innovative ways to help m
As a highly skilled teacher with four years of experience, I have been recognized as a TES recommended author for my interactive resources that make Maths easier to plan and engage with. Many of my resources involve the use of Powerpoint or Excel to create engaging and progressively difficult exercises that foster calm lessons and encourage excitement in learning. I am committed to designing resources that are repetitive yet engaging, and I am always looking for new and innovative ways to help m
A whole lesson I designed for an interview lesson for year 10 state school in the UK, second set. A great visual way for introducing students into the topic of circle theorems. This lesson specifically focuses on two circle theorems:
Angles in the same segment are equal
Angle at the center is twice the angle at the circumference.
The most engaging part of this lesson is the gifs used during the lesson, and the opportunity for students to really master the topic through the use of pictures. Slideshow is many slides long and includes a very nice linked starter. Please watch video for lesson in full.
This resource includes:
Lesson plan
Worksheet
Powerpoint
A whole lesson I designed for an interview lesson for year 10 state school in the UK, 3rd set. A great visual way for introducing students into the topic of cumulative frequency.
Running total; quartiles, interquartile range and other descriptors described.
The most engaging part of this lesson is the gifs used during the lesson, and the opportunity for students to really master the topic through the use of pictures. Slideshow is many slides long and includes an easy starter.
This resource includes:
Lesson plan
Worksheet
Powerpoint
29 Worksheet Tabs Included! Ideal starter for KS3, although could be used for younger or older as differentiation available.
FOUR files are attached as a part of this resource, yet you can create an infinite number of worksheets all with attached solutions.
The general concept has been derived from a function machine. You start with 9 input numbers which need to go through two operations, subsequently creating an output. There are a total of four operation pairs, so there up to 36 answers students need to find. Working alongside this is a more challenging sheet, which involves the students using the ‘output’ numbers first to work out the ‘input’ numbers, and hence understanding the importance of working backwards through the operations. Most importantly, both the basic style worksheet and the challenging worksheet work in conjunction with each other, such that they both link to the same solutions, which are provided.
You click on the arrow tab for a new worksheet OR alternatively the ‘delete’ button. Topics included are four operations (including negative numbers); percentages of amount, and percentage increase decrease; fractions of amounts, and fraction increase and decrease; and standard. form.
Has been used many times successfully within classrooms for year 7s, 8s, and year 9s.
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For free samples of all of these worksheets see:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/function-machine-style-worksheets-differentiated-engaging-with-solutions-11851145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/function-machine-style-worksheets-for-percentages-of-amounts-differentiated-engaging-solutions-11859004
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/standard-form-function-machine-style-worksheet-4-worksheets-matching-solutions-11866307
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/fractions-of-amounts-last-minute-maths-starter-colourful-differentiated-worksheets-solutions-11847685
14 slide powerpoint presentation, in which every other slide includes a video. Every other slide is a video of a venn diagram being shaded in, and the remaining slides are videos of the notational answers. You could use this resource in several ways. Firstly you could use the turquoise colour slides to give a Venn diagram notation, such as P(AnB’) and then you could get students to demonstrate their answers in their book. Alternatively you could use the pictoral videos, and ask the students what you think the equivalent notation is.
This worksheet is designed for KS3 and KS4 to understand length scale factor problems, which typically involve using a calculator. The worksheet is suitable for most types of children, but is targetted for the more able learner. Children need to use the numbers already provided for the dimensions of the photographs to work out the scale facctor of enlargement. To make this worksheet more challenge written dimensions can be removed, and children can measure the pictures themselves.
Workhseet contains 6 problems, multiple extension questions, and links to real life such as Instagram. In addition to this the worksheet has an example on how to complete the questions.
I often find teaching the topic of scale factor quite dull. As a result I have tried to make it more exciting by using images I have taken from various trips to different countries, and relating the worksheet to real life experiences of the students. Comes with DETAILED solutions.
Length scale factor requires you to work out what is the multiplicative factor you need in order to get from one length to another.
The idea of this game is for students to put the numbers 1-15 in their exercise book, and write the number 1 on line 1 and the number 1000 on line 15. They are then revealed numbers one by one, and their aim is to try and fit all the numbers onto the number line in a chronological order. Once this process is complete you can ask the class who obtained the largest number of correctly ordered numbers.
You can change the maximum number to something greater i.e. ‘10000’ or something smaller i.e. ‘300’. Also due to this being an excel worksheet generator there are an infinite number of answers that can be available.
This is a great game to end the lesson with and always engages students.
This is based on my free resource ‘angles within shapes’, and is a very useful generator. Comes with optional ‘hints’ which helps with differentiation. Increasing in difficulty. Been used sucessfully with many classes, including bottom set year 8 (whom of which a student managed to remember this topic within an exam scenario).
For a free sample of this please visit:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/forming-equations-using-algebra-within-a-shape-11907165
Two problems are included
First problem is repeated 3 times on one sheet for ease of printing
Second problem is repeated twice to optimise printing
First problem regards solely angles within a triangle.
Second problem regards angles within a triangle, quadrilateral and the harder sheet 2 includes alternate angles (the lattter doesn’t have to be included).
Cheat sheet, which is a good structure for supporting any ability to complete at least the first task.
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This is finding different averages from a table. There are three worksheets per side of A4, so great if you want to save on printing. Please leave a review if you found helpful :D
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https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-mean-median-mode-range-generator-from-a-4x4-grid-simple-to-use-accessible-solutions-11872100
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This resource comes with EIGHT different times tables grids which you need to fill out the missing entries. There are both smaller grids (6x6) and larger grids (12x12) which involve a variety of differentiated problems. Some of the grids have row and column headings, whereas other involve a challenge to work out what the row and column headings are. Great way to revise times tables, or a settler in a lesson. The challenge problems involve loads of other sub topics, such as deducing ‘factors’, ‘solving equations’ and more.
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This is a sample of my resource https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/times-table-multiplication-grid-worksheet-generator-easy-to-challenging-solutions-ready-to-use-11866269 . IF YOU WANT MORE OF THE SAME, AND AN INFINITE OPTIONS OF THESE WORKSHEETS PLEASE VISIT :).
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Ideal starter for KS3, although could be used for younger or older as differentiation available.
The general concept has been derived from a function machine. You start with 9 input numbers which need to go through two operations, subsequently creating an output. The operation for this specific function machine involves four operations, and negative numbers. So you start with 6 and then ‘x6 +2’. There are a total of four operation pairs, so there up to 36 answers students need to find. Working alongside this is a more challenging sheet, which involves the students using the ‘output’ numbers first to work out the ‘input’ numbers, and hence understanding the importance of working backwards through the operations. Most importantly, both the basic style worksheet and the challenging worksheet work in conjunction with each other, such that they both link to the same solutions, which are provided.
Has been used many times successfully within classrooms for year 7s, 8s, and year 9s.
Please leave reviews if you found this resource helpful! For a generator and unlimited resources of this type see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/four-operations-last-minute-maths-starter-colourful-differentiated-worksheets-solutions-11847766
For a bundle of 4 of these resources on four operations, fractions, percentages and standard form see https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/last-minute-starter-differentiated-worksheets-number-pc-fractions-and-more-solutions-11692992
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This resource is based upon the popular idea of a crossword. However instead of using words, numbers are used instead. Clues are given by the yellow boxes in the forms of expressions. Some of the clues involve one step, whereas others involve two steps. Could use sheet with or without calculator depending on ability of the class. You get two diferentiated resources for each worksheet, as both the easier and harder worksheets provided give the same answers, whilst usefully giving different questions allowing differentiation within a class.
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For a generator of this resource see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cross-number-generator-providing-an-infinite-number-of-starter-resources-11850323
A resource I was keen to make to engage set 4 and 5 year 7. Assisted by my ‘tricky’ boys coming to help me with ideas on how to make this resource authentic to fortnite, during their break time.
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Addition pyramid using addition, subtraction and logic
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https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-large-addition-pyramid-generator-with-inifnite-number-of-questions-varying-difficulty-answers-11991061
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This resource contains 20 pyramid addition problems, 10 of which are on a easy sheet and the others on a hard sheet.
For both sheets: the first 5 problems are solely involving positive numbers when adding from the bottom of the pyramid upwards. The 6th problem involves decimals. The 7th, 8th and 9th involving negative numbers, with the 9th dealing with smaller negative numbers. Finally the 10th problem involves both negative numbers and decimals.
The hard worksheet involves the same pyramid as the easy worksheet, however, instead of having to solely add from the bottom of the pyramid, and work your way upwards, you have work down and up through the pyramid using both subtraction and addition.
To generate an infinte number of worksheets visit this resource: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/addition-pyramids-worksheet-generator-easy-and-hard-negative-numbers-and-decimal-numbers-included-11866947
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For a large pyramid with 43 cells and 9 rows visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-large-addition-pyramid-with-43-cells-and-9-rows-involves-logic-addition-and-subtraction-11980356
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This is a worksheet including 18 simultaneous equations questions for linear and quadratic equations. This is a differentiated resource containing three levels of difficulty. Section 1 only has the variables ‘a’ and ‘b’, and for all 6 questions, a few decimal answers and a matching coefficient in each pair of eqautions. Section 2 has varying variables and unmatching coefficients. Whereas section 3 involves quadratic and linear equation, which touches on the topics ‘changing the subject of the formula’, ‘substitution’, ‘expanding brackets’, ‘factorising’ and ‘solving’. All three questions make this topic more interesting because of the use of ‘negative numbers’ as answers, as well as understanding the importance of the relationship between different signs.
For a generator of this worksheet, providing an infinite number of worksheets see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/simultaneous-equations-worksheet-generator-linear-quadratic-3-levels-difficulty-infinite-q-and-a-11857112
Whenever I am doing a relay race I always find it quite monotonous that students are constantly getting me to check their answers during a lesson. Therefore, I’ve devised a spreadsheet to enable me to facilitate learning of questions rather than constantly spending the lesson to check if 100 answers are correct. Also this is good at limiting cheating when answers just become chinese whispers.
Basically you input the questions’ answers at the bottom of the spreadsheet and then click hide. Students then use your keyboard to input there answers for individual or sets of questions and if there answer is correct the cell will be hilighted in green. This gives a great way for students and teachers alike to monitor their progress throughout the answer. Beware you may need to set out some rules about how often they can input answers to prevent a queue from forming at the computer.
This is a choice of 4 different worksheets testing on the topic of percentages of amounts, through the mode of a function machine. Two of the worksheet are ‘Easy Questions’ whereas the other two worksheets are 'Hard Questions. For the easy questions students start with with a red grid in the central of the worksheet containing 9 different numbers, which is the input. They then need to find a percentage of all 9 of these numbers, such as finding ‘20%’ of the original numbers, obtaining an output number. This process is repeated four times, for four differing percentages which are both greater and smaller than 100%. The difficult worksheets differently start with output numbers, so students need to understand how to reverse the process, and to be able to divide by a multiplier ratehr than multiply by the multiplier. A resource which is ‘ready to go’, and both the easy and difficult worksheets are linked usefully by the same solutions. Please leave a review if you found this helpful.
For a generator of this resource please see
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percentage-amounts-last-minute-maths-starter-colourful-differentiated-worksheets-solutions-11849968