A murder has been committed! There are 32 suspects, and one of them is guilty. Using your powers of deduction, can you crack each of the five coded clues to reveal the identity of the killer? NEW (13.02.10) ANSWERS & TIPS
NEW!! Excel Spreadsheets for the effect Total Disbelief.
A collection of mathematical magic tricks for teachers. Particularly suitable for KS3 but also popular with older children. Each trick gives an anecdotal account of the effect being used in the classroom, followed by the explanation and teaching points if used for further work. Appendix includes details of simple sleights such as coin vanishes etc.
NEW! Instructions sheet added.
Made for a colleague in Modern Foreign Languages Dept. This Excel Worksheet changes a regular 9x9 SuDoku puzzle in a newspaper from numbers to words. You choose the 9 Themed Words and Vocabulary in the target language (e.g. Animals, Colours, Christmas etc.) and the word puzzle is created as you enter the puzzle numbers. Two copies of the puzzle are printed on a single A4 page, with the list of the 9 words down one side. Adaptable to other Languages.
A checklist of 50 I can do this statements designed to cover the Edexcel syllabus for students revising. Answers not provided - they are for the students to research - but The Big 50 does provide a useful framework. Modules here: C1, C2, C3, M1, S1, as well as GCSE Statistics.
Here’s a quick puzzle to use as a warm-up to any Maths or Numeracy lesson. The aim is simply to order the numbers 1 to 9, but the real skill comes in doing it in the fewest moves! Accessible to Primary and Secondary age students. There are different strategies to discover to achieve Brilliant! or Genius each time. How quickly can you become a Reverser Expert? Tutorial now added to help you enable Macros in Excel if this is new to you.
NEW: Some users seem to be having difficulty opening this large file. It is a text file. The first line has '3.' The second line begins '14159...' as expected. There is no 3.014159 as some claim :-)
A large text file consisting simply of the first million digits of Pi. The digits are arranged in rows of 50 digits per row, beginning with the 1 after the decimal point. You’ll be delighted to know that the millionth decimal place is a 1 as well.
A sketch that could be used with KS3 to present issues related to personal hygiene in a humorous way. There are four contestants, and the 'Weakest Stink' (the cleanest) is eliminated at the end of each of three rounds, leaving one repulsively smelly champion.
Simple staging could involve a music stand or similar to hold each contestant's script and this could be decorated with the programme's logo (design your own!) at the front. Written for female quizmaster and four male contestants but contestants 2 and 3 could easily be girls Duration about 5-6 minutes.
A pictorial guide for invigilators of Mathematics examinations, showing the commonly used calculators, all of which are acceptable for use, and some examples of the more sophisticated machines which are not acceptable.
A simple scorer for a Quiz Night or Classroom Team Quiz. Up to 16 teams and 12 rounds. When a team plays their joker they automatically score double points. The winning team is always highlighted. Instructions included and questions based on various KS3 topics. This is an excellent classroom activity that is suitable to be used as a plenary.
Look up the Bible references to solve the clues and then find the answer in the wordsearch. BibleGateway is a good place to look if you don’t have a physical Bible. Digital Bibles are also available for all tablets and smartphones.
Answer key provided.
Created using WordSearch 4 for Mac by Jim Graham.
Bible references suddenly become much more fun! A logic-based crossword with 26 words to find, each beginning with a different letter. Each word is found by looking up the Bible reference (either in a paper Bible or online) and finding the word with the correct number of letters. Use elimination to rule out the additional words when a verse contains more than one word with the required number of letters.
The pack contains full instructions, 20 separate puzzles each designed to be printed onto 1 side of A4, two levels of help and of course full answers.
No Bible knowledge is required to solve the puzzles, especially when the references are looked up online using a website such as BibleGateway.
Maddeningly addictive, the puzzles are designed to get people opening their Bibles, to start getting familiar with the order of the books in the Bible, and to have fun exploring the context of some famous and less well-known verses.
A probability modelling exercise using two dice. The original pair of birds will lay between 4 and 16 eggs (according to the dice outcome described), and each egg is then submitted to the chances of nature as it struggles to hatch, develop and reach adulthood. How many of your chicks will survive to become breeding adults themselves?
A test for those about to enrol on Year 12 Maths courses to see if they could cope. Contains topics drawn only from Higher Tier GCSE, including manipulation of fractions, index laws, surds and quadratics. Detailed Mark Scheme provided too.
Created by our KS5 Co-Ordinator Mr B and highly recommended by the whole department.
