Sequences
Activities where sequences are generated and next, 10th, 100th and nth terms are found. Animations...
Category: ActivInspire
2022 Digits Problem (Update – 12 January)
The 4 digits of 2022 can be used to make numbers. You decide what to allow. Here we allow the four...
Populations and the UK Census 2021
Sunday 21 March is Census day in England and Wales and continues the 10 year trend (except for...
Circumference of a Circle
Lesson visual of PowerPoint/ActivInspire Find the circumference of a circle from polygons...
The Bird Box
An ideal activity for January, early February for KS2/3: adapted, with permission, from Activity...
6 Square Challenge
Everything you need for this activity including presentation media of problem and solutions,...
2021: Making numbers using all the four digits
A super activity where we can make the numbers from 1 to 27 using a few simple rules. Good for...
Baby Adult Ratio
Baby and adult skeletons drawn to the same height. See how a baby’s head is much bigger, in...
Body Maths: Scatter Graphs
Lesson on scatter graphs inspired by Africa Counts, Claudia Zaslavsky’s excellent book on...
Writing Functions and Inverse Functions
Find the inverse of a function given by two operations on a number (one multiply by, the other...
Functions
Lesson where you are given four inputs and two operations (multiply and add or subtract) to create...
Dice Games
Interactive excel activity that simulates four games of rolling two dice. Originally part of the...
SS6 Representing 3D Shapes
Super activity from the original Standards Unit Improving Learning in Mathematics but now supplied...
SS3 Dissecting A Square
Super activity from the original Standards Unit Improving Learning in Mathematics but now supplied...
Squares and Other Powers
Recognise/use different representations of squares and square roots, cubes and cube roots and...
Factors and Prime Factors
Recognise/use multiples, factors (divisors), highest common factor, lowest common multiple and...
Pie Chart Resources
Introductory lesson plan for pie charts including pie chart blanks with 24, 30, 36, 40, and 50...
Circles
Plenty of material here to support work on circles including links helpful sites for definitions,...
The Centre of a Triangle
A super activity where pupils can decide how to find the centre of a triangle: then you may have...
Four 4s
A classic problem from the 19th century that can used as an introduction to priority of operations...
Tangram Fractions
Fold or draw out the tangram parts from a one unit square. A popular activity. Create objects...
Pi Day 2017
Here are plenty of activities, many of them interactive, to use on pi day, (March 14) –...
Fractions in Flipcharts
The only file you need to show any fraction properly on an ActivInspire flipchart. Drag this...
2017 Problem Activities
Ideas for problem solving and mathematical reasoning using 2017 including: what is the smallest...
Pi Day 2016
Here are plenty of activities to use on pi day (March 14) – Monday in 2016. See also the...
