This an engaging way to teach coordinates using Homer Simpson. A nice starter activity to an enlargement lesson where students can begin to gain an appreciation of how lengths change but angles don't.

Mostly Maths games to rehearse mental arithmetic but Shoot the Sheriff and Wheel of Reward are generic. Where questions are not provided you can verbally call them out to aid assessment during a starter or plenary. The games are a great way of adding a little fun and engagement during key parts of a lesson.

Quite a challenging task involving ratios and percentages that I created following a talk by Lord Rees at a Prince's Trust Institute residential. Students will need to measure distances, simplify ratios, write one number as a percentage of another, increase/decrease a quantity by a percentage and calculate reverse percentages.

A template for an etest, a template for student progress sheets and an improved gap analysis

Enable macros, go to Tools in Excel, then add-ins, ensure Analysis Toolpak and Analysis Toolpak-VBA are installed. Store summative and day to day formative data, electronic seating plan, learning objectives/outcomes, a register from the day to day data, a detention register and log of parental contact. Real plus is the mail merge facility: sorts your outcomes of a week into a tables: strength or area to develop, according to the day to day data and can be given to students to reflect on; display objectives/outcomes on a board; analyse your seating plan against FFT residual or working grade

A great way of seeing strengths and areas to develop from an assessment or homework. Handy thing is it also writes you a comment (following something similar to blackbox marking) from the assessment if you put in the objectives of each question. To ensure all features of this program work, please enable macros, then go to Tools in Excel, then add-ins and ensure Analysis Toolpak and Analysis Toolpak-VBA are installed. You will need to copy and paste special (values) the comments into a separate file to be able to read them.

A neat way of relating the interior angle sum to different types of polygon, whether they are regular or irregular. Students measure the angles in their irregular polygons, complete the pattern and then measure the size of the angles in the shape in the centre - what do they notice?

An adapted TES resource idea that allows up to 32 students to be graded across 3 different categories or 3 different activities. At the moment the example is set to effort, behaviour and progress, but could also be used for 3 different rounds of a game. You can set the categories and the weighting of points for each category. This works best with small groups to motivate individuals by adding a sense of competition. You can reward the top 2 students for one week's work and start from scratch the next to keep the motivation high.

A nice activity created by Mark Dawes (AST at CVC) that I have typed up that uses spheres and cubes to estimate the volume of our lungs.

Please enable macros and ensure that the following add-ins are installed: Analysis Toolpak and Analysis Toolpak VBA (this can be done by going to Tools, then add-ins when in Excel) This program models the fluctuations of the FTSE 100 or Woodfine's 10 (all prices move according to a given sequence type). Students are to choose several companies to invest in and watch how their share prices fluctuate. A great lesson activity as a competition or linked with sequences.

To ensure this program works, please enable macros, go to tools in Excel, then add-ins and install Analysis Toolpak and Analysis Toolpak -VBA. Enter 6 differentiated questions linked to the outcomes of a lesson and students can self assess themselves against them

The powerpoint enables you to give up to 3 questions (with 3 possible answers) during a starter or plenary activity to aid assessment. I have included a timer (3..2..1..Show) to help add a sense of discipline to the activity. The answers are animated to come up afterwards. This could be best described as a cheap 'Who wants to be a millionnaire'. Simple, easy and effective.

The powerpoint enables you to give up to 5 questions during a starter or plenary activity to aid assessment. I have included a timer (3..2..1..Show) to help add a sense of discipline to the activity. The answers are animated to come up afterwards. Simple, easy and effective.

An easy non verbal way of communicating to a group they are working well or not. There are two versions with the same features except the second also has a integrated timer. Both can be displayed in the corner of an interactive whiteboard or by a projector.

Calculating the midpoints of sides to calculate the centre of mass. This is a great link to good high jump technique and why a new record was set with the introduction of the Frosbury flop.

KS3 / GCSE transformations. Looking at the enlargement scale factors of patterns that appear on shells. Students create their own and investigate the connection between opposite sections.

https://mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/codebreakerboard Build the perfect activity within 1 min! Select a topic, select how difficult you want your questions to be, write a joke and a punchline. When ready, click the “Create” button and watch the magic happen. Your punchline will be converted into answers that students must match from answering lettered questions. All Maths code breakers come with the answers too.

https://mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/home The Maths White Board (MWB) site has been specifically designed to support a teacher’s/learner’s journey through a topic and the use of mini white boards. The site is packed full of differentiated Maths topics that have been beautifully scaffolded to lead users through a desirable teaching/learning sequence. The software currently comprises of 3 main tools: MWB, WB RECALL and WB SECURE. MWB - A powerful tool to support the use of mini whiteboards during classroom assessment. Questions are displayed in full screen. WB RECALL - Ideal for recapping on the full breadth of a specific skill (starters/revision). 6 questions (1 at each level) is shown on the board. WB SECURE - In order for techniques to be cemented into long term memory, sometimes we need to just give students a few similar questions for them to learn routines. This feature produces 6 questions at a single level and displays it on screen. The MWB website is the perfect tool for classroom assessment but also massively reduces on the need for photocopying resources for students to use. The site has recently seen a lot of growth. Questions and features are being continually added. The most recent addition was the “LAST” tool: 4 questions on 1 screen to assess last lesson, last week, last topic and last term. This is great for starter recaps.

https://mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/scavengerboard Build your perfect activity within 1 min! Select your topics, how difficult you want them to be and how many of each you want. Click the “Create” button and watch the magic happen. All Maths treasure hunts/scavenger hunts come with the correct path through the questions too.

https://mathswhiteboard.com/levelup/home A complete differentiated package for tackling numeracy across all year groups. The tool is contains a range of numeracy topics divided into 6 levels. The aim is for students to get at least 13 out of 15 in a levelled test (completed either on paper or online) before they can level up. Each level contains questions from the previous level so always builds on prior learning. Each level is fully resourced with worksheets, videos and intervention teaching tools. Watch the video tutorial here: https://youtu.be/-QK-bB5w4V8

Subject World is an effective way for students to record their school life. This app accompanies the student version and draws all the data from the student accounts. The data collected can then be used to view/edit the student information. It can be used to create a dynamic seating plan, record/view performance/homework data, set detentions, control AfL activities using the built in functions, collaboratively build a bank of revision cards, mind maps and websites. It has changed the way I store and disseminate information forever. If you want access, please contact mrwslab@gmail.com