This resource contains sixteen instant maths ideas covering a whole range of suggestions that may be used as starter questions, extension questions or probing questions to assess understanding. Areas covered include: scaling up recipes, investigating paper sizes, value for money, proportion questions, rates and...

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of ratio and a booklet 'The Golden Rectangle'.

Ratio pack one contains twelve work cards with a wide variety of activities covering comparing lengths,...

This resource from SMILE focuses on ratio. Each activity is accompanied by teachers' notes, which give advice on appropriate ways of using the activity and any additional equipment required.

Pencils - recognising and describing simple ratios in the context of measurement

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This series of interactive excel sheets explore ratio and proportion. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

The first sheet displays a series...

This resource contains an interactive spreadsheet designed to illustrate teaching points and which could be used as the basis of investigations which involve reasoning about number and shape. Each page of the spreadsheet contains a different activity:

This booklet from the National Numeracy Strategy was written to help students: * solve mathematical problems or puzzles, recognise and explain patterns and relationships, generalise and predict; * explain methods and reasoning orally and in writing; * suggest extensions by asking ‘What if …?’ All the activities...

SMILE Card 2324 is a booklet containing six sections; counting activities, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number puzzles and types of number.

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Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these materials encourage primary children to use reclaimed materials to make a range of products that include a model person, stacking toy, necklace, model car and powered roundabout.

The skills pupils develop during the activities include...

This series of interactive excel sheets look at recognising and using numbers. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

The first four sheets...

This cartoon help pupils explore issues around how recycling and reusing products can benefit the environment.

Concept Cartoons are quick, simple and effective. They are designed to intrigue, provoke discussion and stimulate thinking. Concept Cartoons make concepts problematic and provide an engaging...

Ideal for a Halloween-themed coding lesson! Using sparkles to imitate eyes in a portrait – but can be made harder using LDRs or making the lights fade in and out.

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of reflection, from investigating folding symmetry to using matrices to perform reflections.

This resource contains an interactive spreadsheet which demonstrates and provides practice in reflection and translation at primary level.

Activities include: identifying lines of symmetry in 2D shapes, plotting...

From Practical Action, this wordsearch is an enjoyable way of engaging students in the subject of renewable energy.

Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide opportunities for children to consider the use of plant material (biomass) for renewable energy. They go on to look at some of the problems that using...