This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of 3-D shapes, from folding nets to make cubes to making a dodecahedron.

3-D pack one contains seven work cards with a wide variety of activities...

This resource consists of 19 instant maths ideas, ideal for use as starter questions, extension question or probing questions to assess understanding, requiring students to: * name different solids * explore the cross sections of different solids leading to a definition of a prism * investigate polyhedral * draw...

Nets are used to make almost all forms of card packaging, ranging from simple cereal boxes to display boxes with clear polymer ‘windows’, to display stands. In this activity children consider how 3D packaging may be made from a 2D net, then make card models of a pyramid and a cube from nets. They may combine...

In this resource students are asked to find the value of several calculations that involve addition, subtraction and the squaring of fractions. Students are asked to spot patterns and similarities within the questions in order to generalise. The investigation concludes bu using algebra to prove their conjectures....

This times tables game involves children working in pairs using 'target boards' to practise multiplication facts. Children use the ‘target boards’ to choose questions, winning points for each correct answer, the more difficult the multiplication fact the more points they win. Once the question has been answered, it...

This seemingly simple prompt leads to a rich task that can be developed in a number of different ways.

Lesson notes...

This times tables game involves children working in pairs using 'target boards' to practise multiplication facts. Children use the ‘target boards’ to choose questions, winning points for each correct answer, the more difficult the multiplication fact the more points they win. Once the question has been answered it...

This activity is taken from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) publication ‘8 Days a Week’. The resource consists of eight questions, one for each day of the week and one extra. The questions explore odd numbers, sequences, prime numbers, fractions, multiplication and division. The problems...

This resource from CensusAtSchool produces descriptions of modal pupils using the data taken both from the original CensusAtSchol data and Phase Two of the project. The task encourages students to discuss and think about the merits of using averages.

The mathematical topics of mean, median and mode are used...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand using density.

The task is set in the context of determining if a crown is made from pure gold. Figures are given for the volume and mass of the crown. Information is also presented for the density of gold and silver.

Examples are given of...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand proportional reasoning.

The task is centred around burgers costing $3.50 and $1 000 000. Students must calculate various quantities related to the two initial figures. As an example, one question asks;

‘How many years does it take to earn...

MEI Online Resources provide this introduction to Complex Numbers for AQA FP1. Detailed notes covering The Number System, Adding Subtracting and Multiplying Complex Numbers, Complex Conjugates, Equations with Complex Roots, Equating Real and Imaginary Parts and Crucial Points to learn are included, together with...

MEI Online Resources provide this introduction to Matrices for AQA FP1. Detailed notes covering the manipulation of Matrices and Crucial Points to learn are included, together with study plans for both Heinemann and Oxford textbooks.

Also available are Additional Exercises for students to complete with...

MEI provides this matrix matching activity, where students have to match diagrams with the appropriate transformation and the matrix which describes it. Solutions are provided.

MEI Online Resources provide this resource on Matrix Transformations for AQA FP1. Detailed notes covering stretches and enlargements, rotations about the origin, reflections, composite transformations and crucial points to learn, together with notes for trigonometry (needed for work on matrices) and study plans for...