ActivInspire

Introductory lesson plan for pie charts including pie chart blanks with 24, 30, 36, 40, and 50 spokes (pdf file). … Read More

Plenty of material here to support work on circles including links helpful sites for definitions, constructions and the circle theorems. … Read More

This helps with understanding how place value works as the figures move and the decimal point stays still when multiplying … Read More

A super activity where pupils can decide how to find the centre of a triangle: then you may have to … Read More

A classic problem from the 19th century that can used as an introduction to priority of operations (BIDMAS) and factorials. … Read More

Ratio and proportion – a key activity: links fractions, direct proportion, straight line graphs, map scales, currency and unit conversions, … Read More

Fold or draw out the tangram parts from a one unit square. A popular activity. Create objects using all 7 … Read More

Here are plenty of activities, many of them interactive, to use on pi day, (March 14) – Tuesday in 2017. … Read More

An ideal activity for January, early February for KS2/3: adapted, with permission, from Activity Maths (Level 5): The Bird Box. … Read More

The only file you need to show any fraction properly on an ActivInspire flipchart. Drag this flipchart page and adapt … Read More

Ideas for problem solving and mathematical reasoning using 2017 including: what is the smallest number that cannot be made with … Read More

Here are plenty of activities to use on pi day (March 14) – Monday in 2016. See also the earlier … Read More

Examples of the bar method, mostly for secondary level here. Makes use of the excellent Thinking Blocks Modelling Tool. (I’m … Read More

This is an ideal pi day activity (March 14) to involve the whole school. Who can draw the perfect freehand … Read More

GeoDraw – Jamtec (Stoke) Ltd, any Geoboard, real or virtual, or dotty paper can be used to support the understanding … Read More

This helps with understanding how place value works as the figures move and the decimal point stays still when multiplying … Read More

  The IWB versions of the files have now been added to the website here along with other useful references.