This Christmas maths codebreaker gives students lots of practice at their times tables which helps them to reveal a Christmas Joke. A fun maths starter or reward for early finishers in the run up to Christmas. Similar to my Halloween codebreaker freebie which is a “TES PICKS” resource. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke, fun Christmas clip art pictures included. Find more Christmas maths activities here.

This is a lesson on enlargements for use in a secondary transformations unit. This enlargements lesson includes Powerpoint and workbook. Skills covered are: enlarging a shape from a centre of enlargement with a positive scale factor,enlarging a shape with a fractional scale factor, describing the enlargement. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson without too much preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder) This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach enlargements, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) See here for differentiated worksheets on Enlargements.

These self-checking, no-prep printable maze worksheets will give KS3 students a fun way to practise Solving One Step Equations (with positive x’s). These maths mazes can be used for class work, warm-ups, additional practise, homework or you can give them to early finishers. Included: ★3 mazes (labelled at the bottom left) ★Answer Key for each maze Features: ★Easy to use ★Self-checking ★At least 9 questions for students to answer ★Engaging ★Mark at a glance ★Full solutions This is a more engaging way of reviewing solving equations. It is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. =±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=± Other resources you might like Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity - Multiplying and Dividing Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity - Adding and Subtracting Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity