A few posters I have on my wall to add literacy into mathematics. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Bank notes which you can put your school name and pictures of your teachers on to use in activities involving purchasing. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. See also my 'Cash for questions revision activity' which uses these bank notes.

A worksheet looking at the different shapes of population pyramids. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Worksheet to allow students to investigate the relationship between areas of the squares on the sides and work out the theorem for themselves. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Series of mental arithmetic questions which follow on from the previous answer. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. Notebook file is displayed on SmartBoard. Students use mini-whiteboards. Practice questions are given on the left in green. Once ready, uncover each question in turn. When the final instruction is uncovered, students hold up their mini-whiteboards to show their answers. Uncover the bottom answer to check. Each page is progressively more difficult.

Practical uses of sine rule and cosine rule - triangulation and GPS. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. Also see Uses of constructions & loci - triangulation é GPS.

Activity involving square numbers and factors. Guards lock / unlock numbered cells following a set of instructions. At the end the cells which are left open are those with a square number because they are the only numbers with an odd number of factors. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. NB: Notebook file was created on version 10 and does not display properly on the new version 11.

Three similar activities which involve colouring in all the square numbers, cube numbers, and prime numbers in grids to demonstrate that all squares are of the form 4n or 4n+1, all cubes are of the form 9n, 9n-1, or 9n+1, and all primes (except 2 and 3) are of the form 6n-1 or 6n+1. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Lots and lots of activities and investigations based around number sequences. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. They are not fully worked lesson plans, but rather some ideas for activities.

Fractions investigation which involves learners applying a greedy algorithm. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

A few questions on sketching graphs of the height of water as a container is filled and a file which allows you to make your own graphs. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Cross curricular activity in which learners write a mathematical nursery rhyme or poem. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. If you have any improvements to make to my rhymes or poem or if you or your learners come up with any good ones, please message me. You may also consider using some of the nursery rhymes or poems in your lesson plans for the relevant topics to add a bit of fun to the lessons.

Some teaching and learning posters I have at the front of my classroom.

A poem I have written which I use to introduce BIDMAS to help learners to avoid the common misconceptions of thinking that D is done before M and A is done before S. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT

A simple powerpoint I produced to demonstrate the rules regarding solving inequalities. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Questions involving different colours and numbers (and different sizes thrown in for good luck) to use both sides of the brain at the same time. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. Notebook file is displayed on SmartBoard. Students use mini-whiteboards. Uncover the first question, students work out the answer and hold up mini-whiteboards, uncover the answer and then repeat with next question. Topics included: arithmetic, factors, multiples, mean and median.

Four different problems involving clocks. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Two activities looking at symmetry of numbers. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT. Palindromic numbers is a short activity which can be used as a starter or time-filler. Turnnumbers is a longer investigation into patterns in numbers.

Cross curricular activity in which learners read a story about a conveyor belt made like a Möbius strip and investigate the properties of the Möbius strip. PLEASE REVIEW / COMMENT.

Several properties of factors and of prime factors of square numbers and some related challenge questions. PLEASE REVIEW/COMMENT.