I have been teaching MATHEMATICS (11-16) since 1990. I have regularly been commended on my classroom displays and the quality of my resources as I feel this enriches the student experience.
As a self-taught graphic designer I now produce professional quality materials for our academy/academy chain across all departments including posters/banners and promotional materials. I am currently working on updating some older resources as well as developing new ones!
I have been teaching MATHEMATICS (11-16) since 1990. I have regularly been commended on my classroom displays and the quality of my resources as I feel this enriches the student experience.
As a self-taught graphic designer I now produce professional quality materials for our academy/academy chain across all departments including posters/banners and promotional materials. I am currently working on updating some older resources as well as developing new ones!
Notes: On worksheets 1-3 i have set the sector as part of a circle shown as a dotted line to remind students that a sector is a fraction of a circle.
There may also be some discussion over rounding everything to 1d.p. as in some questions it is probably not suitable.
Included in this collection
USING A NUMBER LINE;
0-10 Addition: 10 different worksheets with 10 questions on each
0-10 Subtraction: 5 different worksheets with 10 questions on each
0-20 Addition: 10 different worksheets with 10 questions on each
0-20 Subtraction: 10 different worksheets with 10 questions on each
0-20 Subtraction: 12 different worksheets with 8 questions on each (number line arrows are drawn - pupils to write Q & A)
Number lines (numicon) for pupils to use / stick in books 0-10 (3 number lines per sheet)
Number lines (numicon) for pupils to use / stick in books 0-20 (3 number lines per sheet)
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A colourful FRACTION WALL in 4 sizes
**PRINT WITH A GENEROUS OVERLAP SETTING of at least 2 cm **
The default setting on PDF’s is only about 2mm
I have also included some tiling instruction for the large size poster. If possible print the tiles at A3
and use a guillotine to cut edges of each tile.
Use as a straight Wordsearch or PLAY THE Associated GAME
Each number from 1-90 has a rhyming phrase or nickname.
A challenging wordsearch over a 40x40 grid.
**GAME
Rather than finding ALL the answers:
another possibility is to give each student a bingo card and make it a competition to just find the 15 numbers on their BINGO CARD
I have another resource called BINGO KIT if you need some Bingo cards**
10 worksheets with answers (as worksheet and as a list) - Difficultly increases from 1-1 to 1-10
ONE IDEA IS to cut them out into individual questions to they could be easily stuck into books so ALL the working out could be shown. Shuffle them up and distribute at random within the difficulty range
Even more difficult if made non-calc work!
-Find 352 maths related words ( KS3 Vocab. list)
For wordsearches this is quite a challenge.
Hardly anyone has ever found all the words (even when they have taken home over an holiday period and arrived back saying it became a family activity) but a lot have said they enjoyed trying.
In class some have wanted to do it on their own, some in a small group. But it has worked best as a table activity where they work together an pool their answers.
I have also used it to just to find certain words from a small list of 10-20 that I have put on the board.
A follow on from my ‘SETS A , B and C’ resources where students have to use Pythagoras’ Theorem to check if the triangle has a right-angle.
22 questions over 2 worksheets (with some ‘scaffolding’) + ANSWERS
See other my FREE resources in this set
A wordsearch including all the official films up to 2025 and the actors that have portrayed Bond.
Includes images of puzzle and solution if you want to use it in your own resource.
A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE BASED resource for use in
form-time or as an end of year, end of term activity?
A4 and A5 sized puzzles to print
A menu driven PowerPoint version for use with the whole class on an interactive whiteboard.
All artwork included for your own use.
Questions:
1.Sharks
2. Dog Breeds
3. Cat Breeds
4. Rabbit Breeds
5. Mario Universe
6. Moons
7. ‘S’ Countries
8. World Rivers
9. Harry Potter Villains
10. Famous Ships
11. 1-20 in French
12. 1-20 in German
13. 1-20 in Spanish
14. Car Brands
15. Oceans and Seas
16. Mountains
17. Butterflies
18. The Big Bang Theory
19. NBA Nicknames
20. Star Trek Races
PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER WORDSEARCHES AND PUZZLES
A comprehensive set of blank templates for you to use in your own documents, Powerpoints and Notebook slides etc. Only a few examples are shown the the image gallery above. You can import a template and resize it to what is required , either a large version or multiples per sheet (if you use the PDF version you can do this in the print settings automatically)
These include.
Different number of spots around a Circle - 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36 , 50 and 72
Let the students investigate different patterns they can make by joining spots up in different ways ( see investigation results graphic)
Different patterns of spots (both blank and numbered):
Based on axes, around different shapes eg triangles, squares, cubes etc.
STARTING INSTRUCTIONS to create some of the more difficult patterns are included as graphics so can be projected onto a white board if necessary.
The colleague who I made this resource for found it useful and said that the students really enjoyed the activity.
CURVE STITCHING 2 - NOW AVAILABLE
CURVE STITCHING 2 - NOW AVAILABLE
Step-by-step instructions (PowerPoint) on how to use factor trees to decompose a number into a product of primes.
This can be left on a loop while the class are working.
A further menu driven PowerPoint that has ALL the solutions for each number (minus a few variations)
No worksheets. I just get the pupils to ‘shout out’ several numbers between 2 and 100 and write these on the board.
(although I sometimes add a few myself)
Class marks their own work from solutions PowerPoint
2 different Giant Wordsearch puzzles
with all 118 chemical elements to find
find 100 of the 118 to identify the 18 that are missing
Separate checklists to accompany the puzzles
Printed and Powerpoint Solutions
Perhaps an activity for the end of term or for over the summer holidays?
Working in millilitres and litres and converting between each
a) colour amount given
b) state amount in jug
Use clip-art to create your own worksheets/PowerPoints - they are transparent PDFs so it is easy to draw a coloured rectangle behind to show liquid in jug
29 PYRAMIDS TO SOLVE
A more difficult version of NUMBER PYRAMIDS using FRACTIONS
Addition and subtraction of fractions/mixed numbers
some negative fractions/mixed numbers too
A PowerPoint that cover the very basics to the more complex
WORKSHEETS
Numbers 1-100 (100 Q over 10 worksheets)
Numbers 101-1000 (100 Q over 10 worksheets)
Numbers 1001-10000 (100 Q over 10 worksheets)
Numbers 1000-100000 (100 Q over 10 worksheets)
Numbers to 999999999999999 (20 Q slightly more complicated over 2 worksheets)
6)Questions to be done in pupil books
Numbers 100-999999999999999 (96 Q over 3 worksheets)
Different Place value tables/aids
Excel Spreadsheet that converts numbers into words
You will have to ENABLE MACROS
ALSO SEE
WRITING NUMBERS IN WORDS POSTERS - SPELLING and PLACE VALUE AIDS
AND
**Names of LARGE numbers POSTERS A2,A3,A4 **
I usually use this resource at a starter or a settler activity with a given time limit (say 10 mins).
I give advice about doing as many as possibly and in whichever order the students want.
Afterward we have discussions about which they find the easiest or can do the quickest.
Usually addition comes out the easiest until I suggest that if you know your tables that the multiplications are the easiest to do and probably the quickest as they don’t need working out. They get to realise that if they really know their tables that the divisions are quicker as they’re usually a single digit number to write as the answer.
In my mark book I record how many get correct out of how many they do and a time if they complete them all before the given time.
Most of the students really like doing this challenge. Improving their time/score is appears to motivate them. I have had quite a few students ask for sheets so they can practice at home.
Use the TABS on the spreadsheet to set the difficulty by changing the MAX and MIN values for each mathematical operation,
See the questions(recalculate if necessary ) and the answers for that set of questions.
It may be a good idea to PRINT SCREEN a set of answers if you intend to put the answer in a PowerPoint.
I usually print a few sets of answers off per table so they can mark their own. Sometimes I read them out.
If you cut the answer sheet into 4 strips, these strips can be placed/matched up against each column of students answer sheet and this is really easy for them to mark. Using this technique I have marked a full class of sheets in about 5 mins or so.
Another way to use this resource them would be to do them one/two columns/operations at a time and cut the time allowed.
An activity/challenge that promotes logical, methodical, systematical thinking that students (in a wide age range) tend to enjoy.
Find all the 31 different rectangles ‘hidden’ in a tennis court.
Included:
A two page worksheet (can be printed back-to-back but is better as 2 separate sheets).
PDF and PowerPoint Answers
All associated artwork.
If you have found this useful please check out my other extensive resource called FINDING TRIANGLES with 50 puzzles