This lesson develops the concept of using the properties of exponents. In particular students will:

• Recall and use the properties of exponents to generate equivalent numeric expressions.
• Identify the appropriate property to use and apply it correctly.
• Check the numerical value of an...

Architect’s skills, from Cre8ate maths, will develop the process skills involved in understanding and making sense of mathematical information. Students have to give unambiguous descriptions to enable their partner to build an identical copy of a hidden shape, whilst the partner has to listen and interpret the...

This resource consists of seventeen work cards each requiring students to investigate some aspect of area and perimeter of shapes. Associated with each card is a student help sheet and comprehensive teacher notes detailing assumed knowledge for each task, the purpose of...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 9B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 9.

Area, perimeter and volume covers: a review of the names and shapes of common 2D shapes; areas of special shapes such as circle, triangle, parallelogram and composite shapes; the...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: area of shapes drawn on a grid, area and perimeter of a square area and perimeter of a rectangle, area of compound shapes and area of a triangle. The initial file...

This resource contains eight activities for use in the classroom.

Self descriptive numbers: 'Four' is a self descriptive number as the word four contains 4 letters. This is the only number for which this is the case. However if 22 is represented as 17+1+4 then this written in words takes 22...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: addition and subtraction of whole numbers, dealing with brackets, addition and subtraction of decimals, dealing with money. The initial file forms part of the...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 7. Arithmetics: decimals, fractions and percentages covers converting decimals into fractions, converting fractions into decimals, an introduction to percentages and converting between...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: mental division of whole numbers, division methods for whole numbers and decimals and division problems. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The activities...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 7. Arithmetic: fractions covers a revision of whole numbers and decimals, adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions and dividing fractions. The initial file forms part of the...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: shading fractions on a grid, equivalent fractions, fractions of quantaties, mixed numbers and improper fractions. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 8A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 8.

Arithmetic: fractions and percentages covers: revision of operations with fractions; addition, multiplication, division, solving problems involving fractions in context,...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers: multiplication of whole numbers, long multiplication, Napiers bones, Russian multiplication, box method, multiplying with decimals and problems involving...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 7. Arithmetic and negative numbers covers adding and subtracting numbers on a number line and multiplying and dividing negative numbers. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 7. This resource covers, place value, rounding to the nearest 10,100,1000 and rounding to decimal places. The initial file forms part of the textbook. The activities sheet, extra exercises...