Help Dr Barnes Wallis's team to position the spotlights on the Lancaster Bombers for the Dambusters' raids led by Commander Guy Gibson. Willing suspension of disbelief required with respect to the numbers (unless you choose to alter them to match researched reality!). Timed for use on the anniversary of the raids (17 May 1943). Roll the theme....

From days at Primary; animated & adjusted to work for -ve powers of 10 as well as +ve. Kibel [pp34-40 Miles T.R., Miles E. (2004)Dyslexia é mathematics] has +ve story to tell about Dienes blocks. Worth remembering that their use can be scaled up é down. Hence BETTER version will be made by someone with time é 3D ICT kit. It’ll ZOOM in é out to enable pupils to view (é correctly name - for US é Brit purposes!) numbers as big as a Googol é as small as... It'll use techniques like those in these slides; but combined with ZOOMING as seen in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Tym_6YLUI

A set of three colourful questions to encourage pupils to understand: (i) why angle-naming conventions exist and (ii) how to apply them.

Crossword. Fairly tough.

Trigonometry - Card sort - all three ratios - all three types (labelled bronze; silver; gold)

A mind opening starter.

It's a card sort: to match cubic graphs and cubic equations; possibly by utilising factor theorem to analyse the cubic equations into their factors.

Maths Revision Quiz for Red Nose Day. *All* monies I receive from TES website (60% of what you pay) for this resource will be given to Comic Relief. I will keep nothing! What TES choose to do with their 40% is up to them! :-) Ed Sheeran's agreement pending (via Twitter)... However, n.b. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38808325

The ghosts have been frozen. Describe how the Major Sector Man will make his escape!

Print the .pdf using the multiple pages per sheet option; or create GIANT WHOLE CLASS card sort by printing each page on A4. Several ways to sort these effectively. Be inventive!

CHALLENGING practice assessment AND main assessment - with answers for both. Spring Term. New maths curriculum. Test covers(skill by skill - referencing DfE bullet points - in order taught & tested rather than DfE order): Number: Year 6: NPV:1,2,3,4 Year 6: NASMD: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Year 6: NFDP: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 Year 7: KS3: N1, N2, N4, N7, N5, N15, N10, N11 Algebra: Year 6: 1,2,3,4, 5 Year 7: A3, A8, A1, A4, A14, A2 Ratio, Proportion & Rates of Change: Year 6: RP: 1,2,3,4 Year 7: RPR3, RPR2 Geometry & Measure: Year 6: M: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Year 6: GPoS:1,2,3,4,5 Year 6: GPaD: 1,2 Year 7: GM1, GM2, Statistics: Year 7: S:1,2 Probability: N/A

Leading to "live" homework on the night of Thursday 7 May 2015! A graphing activity to aid analysis of the 2015 and earlier UK general elections using a Doctor-Who-like theme. Historic data can be sourced from BBC News website and other good sources to complete the graph and assess who wins/won each election. Alternative means are provided to represent the UK battle; these can be assessed and critiqued. To pre-brief pupils about UK General Elections and the key number (326) of seats to win control of the House of Commons, you may choose to use: http://www.parliament.uk/education/about-your-parliament/general-elections/ Options also presented for EU election analysis for pupils to assess and critique.

A mini task. Defining and redefining 'the counted thing': one. Leads to creation of Venn diagram. Requires or tests recognition of circle, square and rectangle. Once they've understood the ideas, pupils can be encouraged to apply them when they are next in the garden of an English pub

Revision of English Mathematics Key Stage 3 and/or Key Stage 4 basics. Giant floor puzzle. Print to A3 paper and then cut out the triangles. Laminate if you wish to reuse. Testing suggests optimum size for groups is 8-10 pupils. Alternately, give a couple of pieces to each pupil at the start; then as pieces placed and pupils sit in circle to watch the “core team” fit the pairs together, run substitutions in/out of the choir team from the chairs. Alternately, insist each pupil holds a single puzzle piece and finds every match for his/her piece and then stands up holding their piece in the air. This requires an overhead fish-eye/sports camera looking down on your hall/room - and a bigger than A3 print.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to KS3 SOW & progress map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Linked to SoW and progression map.

Scaffolded. On a journey toward stronger work with pie charts and elsewhere.