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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.

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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.
KS3/KS4 Maths Algebra Resources
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KS3/KS4 Maths Algebra Resources

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This bundle contains a set of materials to help teachers prepare and deliver lessons on KS3 and KS4 Algebra topics in Maths. Included in this bundle is a couple of investigations on convergence and algebraic formulae (with worksheets included), a comprehensive bank of GCSE higher exam questions for quadratic equations and a couple of powerpoints for whole lessons on constructing and solving linear equations and writing equations and formulae.
Comprehensive Bank of KS3 and GCSE Maths Exam Questions
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Comprehensive Bank of KS3 and GCSE Maths Exam Questions

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This bundle contains a huge bank of exam questions and revision for KS3 and GCSE Maths. It includes exam questions on topics such as Relative Frequency, Quadratics, Area and Circumference of a Circle, Straight Line Graphs, Averages, Equations, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages and Probability. These can be used in class for revision purposes and improving exam technique or to summatively assess pupils.
Blooms and Peer/Self Assessment Resources
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Blooms and Peer/Self Assessment Resources

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This bundle contains a set of resources designed to promote higher-order thinking skills in students and encourage reflection and collaboration. It consists of a series of templates to help students self and peer assess a piece of work (including a specialised one for evaluating a piece of writing), collaborative learning tasks involving the definition of key words in KS3 Maths, Literacy and Humanities, a plenary activity involving Blooms’ taxonomy and a learning mat on Blooms’ thinking hats to use as a resource for pupils in class in any subject.
GCSE Maths Foundation Extension Assessment Questions
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GCSE Maths Foundation Extension Assessment Questions

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This resource contains a set of extension questions for GCSE Foundation Maths (which are grouped by topic) which are good at stretching pupils (especially more able students) and summatively assessing their knowledge of topics. The questions progress in difficulty and encourage pupils to think deeper and reflectively about what they’ve learned including evaluating, conjecturing, considering special cases and explaining/justifying. This resource would also work well as a plenary activity or to be set as homework.
KS3 Maths Assessment Descriptors
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KS3 Maths Assessment Descriptors

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This is an excellent resource of the old level descriptors pupils have to meet/fulfill in KS3 Maths. It’s very useful in helping teachers formatively assess pupils’ progress and acts as a aid for self and peer assessment. Each level is structured by clear outcomes of operations and activities across all 4 areas (number, geometry, algebra, data handling) students must be able to complete to meet the criteria for achieving the level. As well as boosting cross-curricular links I also used this resource as a poster/wall display and a handout for pupils to self and peer assess their progress.
Secondary School Lesson Planning Templates
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Secondary School Lesson Planning Templates

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This bundle contains some extremely useful resources to help secondary school teachers with their lesson planning. These materials can be used in any subject across the curriculum. It contains flexible, time-saving templates for planning behaviour management and learning activities, a set of differentiated assessment for learning starters, main body and plenary activities, a series of peer and self assessment templates and Bloom’s taxonomy resources to promote higher-order thinking skills and reflective learning among students. These are complemented by an adaptable collaborative learning activity involving key words and a self-audit of subject knowledge for GCSE maths teachers.
KS3 Maths Translations of 2-D Shapes Whole Lesson
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KS3 Maths Translations of 2-D Shapes Whole Lesson

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This powerpoint contains a whole lesson on translations of 2-D shapes for KS3 and GCSE foundation pupils. It covers how to translate 2-D shapes, column vectors, properties of shape, symmetry and co-ordinates. It can be delivered in an interactive manner, with plenty of opportunities for pupils to discuss and consolidate knowledge. There are also strong cross-curricular links with literacy and art.
GCSE Maths Foundation Revision Resources
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GCSE Maths Foundation Revision Resources

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This bundle contains a comprehensive, high-quality set of resources to help teachers prepare and deliver lessons for GCSE maths foundation and to enable students to revise effectively for it. It includes a set of powerpoints on whole lessons on topics such as linear equations, pie charts, probability, nets of 3-D shapes and interior/exterior angles in a polygon and a wealth of exam questions/tests including specific sets for relative frequency, averages and fractions, decimals and percentages. These are complemented by a set of extension questions to challenge students and handouts for students to use to revise ratios, area of 2-D shapes and area and circumference of a circle.
KS3/4 Maths Circumference and Arc Length of Circle Whole Lesson
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KS3/4 Maths Circumference and Arc Length of Circle Whole Lesson

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This useful powerpoint on calculating the circumference of a circle and arc length of a sector in KS3/4 Maths contains enough material for a couple of whole lessons. It’s interactive and instructs pupils on identifying parts of a circle, calculating the circumference of a circle and arc length and how to solve worded problems on these topics. Questions and model examples are provided and material is differentiated by level with strong cross-curricular links to literacy (using mathematical notation and fluency, worded problems).
KS3 and GCSE Maths Translations Worksheets
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Translations Worksheets

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This resource contains a set of worksheets on translations and is suitable for KS3 and GCSE Maths classes. They can be used as exercises to complete in class, homework or for revision. It contains a set of worksheets (with increase difficulty) on translations covering co-ordinates, describing translations of 2-D shapes, column vectors and worded problems involving translations. They allow effective differentiation and have strong cross-curricular links with literacy and art.
KS3/GCSE Maths Foundation Revision Test
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KS3/GCSE Maths Foundation Revision Test

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This is a very useful test which can be used for either KS3 or GCSE Maths. It can be used as to summatively check of students’ understanding of the topic, set as homework or used for revision purposes. The test contains a mixture of calculator and non-calculator questions and also contains some worded problems. Topics covered include fractions, decimals and percentages, conversions, multiplication and division, calculator use, factors and multiples, square and cube numbers, prime factor decomposition, formulae and area and perimeter of 2-D shapes.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Test on Percentages, Fractions and Ratios
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Test on Percentages, Fractions and Ratios

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This resource is an extremely useful test on percentages, fractions and ratios that can be used for KS3 and GCSE maths students. It can be used as a test to summative check of students’ understanding of the topic, set as homework or used for revision purposes. The test contains a mixture of calculator and non-calculator questions on percentages, fractions and ratios and also contains some worded problems. Topics covered include simplifying ratios, sharing ratios from a given amount, fractions and percentages of an amount, simplifying fractions, reverse percentages, LCM and HCF and calculator use.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Rearranging Formulae Full Lesson
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Rearranging Formulae Full Lesson

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This resource is a powerpoint containing a full lesson on rearranging formulae for KS3 and GCSE maths lessons. It’s interactive and has multiple opportunities for students to get involved within the lesson as well as plenty of guided examples to help students understand how to rearrange formulae. Other topics covered include substitution and solving linear equations.
GCSE Maths Solving Quadratics Revision
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GCSE Maths Solving Quadratics Revision

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This resource contains a powerpoint containing a bank of exam questions (with answers) for GCSE maths higher lessons on solving quadratics (factorising, completing the square, graphically finding solutions, quadratic formula, trial and improvement, minimum/maximum points). These could be used to summatively check pupils’ understanding or would be ideal to be used in a revision session for exam practice.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Algebra Resources
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Algebra Resources

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This bundle contains a set of materials to help teachers plan and deliver lessons for KS3 and GCSE Maths on Algebra topics. Included in the bundle are full lessons on constructing and solving linear equations, rearranging formulae, a bank of exam questions for quadratics, acceleration and velocity and general set for KS3 algebra topics. It also contains a set of investigations which involve significant algebraic content on topics such as convergence, compound interest and factors.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Averages Question Booklet
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Averages Question Booklet

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This resource (suitable for KS3 and GCSE foundation maths classes) is a booklet containing questions on averages (mean, median, mode and range from raw and grouped data). It is ideal for setting as homework or using in revision sessions. The questions get progressively difficult and link with probability and collecting data.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Compound Shapes Full Lesson
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Compound Shapes Full Lesson

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This resource contains a powerpoint for a full lesson on compound shapes for KS3 and GCSE Maths lessons. It’s interactive with multiple activities for students to complete and guides students through working out the area of compound shapes as well as refreshing their knowledge of the properties of 2-D shapes. Pupils are also provided with questions to complete themselves.
KS3/GCSE Maths Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Revision
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KS3/GCSE Maths Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Revision

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This resource contains a powerpoint containing a bank of revision material and exam questions on fractions, decimals and percentages. It is suitable for use in KS3 and GCSE maths foundation lessons. It can be used to check pupils’ prior understanding, a starter to refresh pupils’ knowledge, in revision sessions or as a plenary activity. Topics covered include finding the percentage of an amount, converting between fractions, decimals and percentages, percentage increase and decrease and order of operations. There is a strong cross-curricular link with literacy as students are encouraged to learn mathematical key words and terminology.
KS3 Maths Algebra Revision
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KS3 Maths Algebra Revision

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This resource contains a powerpoint of revision materials (key info and questions) for KS3 Maths Algebra topics. It could be used as a baseline to check students’ prior knowledge, as a starter or plenary activity and for a revision session to improve students’ exam technique. Topics covered include writing equations and formulae, simplifying expressions, expanding brackets and solving linear equations.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Fractions Revision
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Fractions Revision

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This resource contains a powerpoint of revision materials (key info and questions) for fractions in KS3 and GCSE Maths. It could be used as a baseline to check students’ prior knowledge, as a starter or plenary activity and for a revision session to improve students’ exam technique. Topics covered include equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, adding and subtracting fractions and converting fractions to mixed numbers.