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...
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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...
Sequences
Activities where sequences are generated and next, 10th, 100th and nth terms are found. Animations...
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) –...
The Bird Box
An ideal activity for January, early February for KS2/3: adapted, with permission, from Activity...
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...
Bar method – updated May 2017
Examples of the bar method, mostly for secondary level here. Makes use of the excellent Thinking...
Freehand Circle Drawing Competition
This is an ideal pi day activity (March 14) to involve the whole school. Who can draw the perfect...
Fraction Operations
GeoDraw – Jamtec (Stoke) Ltd, any Geoboard, real or virtual, or dotty paper can be used to...
Multiplying by Powers of 10
This helps with understanding how place value works as the figures move and the decimal point...
