Build or buy?

This series of Core Maths activities involves mortgage finance, interest rates, income tax, national insurance, scheduling, Gantt diagrams and estimation. The tasks can form a large project or be used as stand-alone lessons.

Build or Buy: Teacher Guidance
The teacher guidance package...

Borrowing money

In this Core Maths resource students are asked to evaluate the offers and figures from three banks in order to decide which one is best for their company to borrow from. The resource involves students calculating the interest incurred using an Excel spreadsheet.

Borrowing money: Lesson Plan...

Time and Money

This resource, aimed at early years and lower primary, contains an interactive spreadsheet designed to illustrate teaching points on the topics of time and money. Ideal for use with the whole class at the start or end of a lesson it provides screens on the following:

Days of the week...

Adding: Numbers and Money

This series of excel sheets look at column addition of whole numbers and money.

The first interactive sheet contains four questions on adding three- and two-digit numbers. Answers can be revealed and a new series of questions can be generated at the click of a button.

The second sheet contains four...

Comparing and Ordering Numbers

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at Year Four students look at comparing and ordering numbers. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

In the first sheet students have to complete the missing numbers or the next three terms in a number sequence. In...

Estimating

This series of ten interactive excel sheets explore estimating. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

The first sheet shows a number line from 0 to 20, 50 or 100. Students have to state what number the marker is showing. Clicking on the help button will make...

Fractions - Equivalence

This is a series of interactive excel sheets exploring fractions. Topics covered include equivalence, comparing fractions, and converting fractions to decimals, recognising and ordering fractions and calculating fractions of amounts. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a...

Fractions and Decimals

This series of interactive excel sheets explore fractions and decimals. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

The first sheet explores tenths, hundredths and thousandths. Click to highlight the digits that make up a number and with a second click the value or...

Long Multiplication - Key Stage One

This series of interactive excel sheets explore aimed at Key Stage One students explores long multiplication. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

This resource looks at multiplying two, three or four-digit numbers by a single digit. The first three sheets...

Multiplication and Division

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at Year Three students explores multiplication and division. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

The first sheet generates a series of ten questions to practice the times tables up to 10 × 10.

In the...