This instant maths ideas resource contains ten suggestions for activities covering collecting terms, simplifying expressions, expanding brackets, factorising, balancing equations and rearranging formulas. The resource sheets include students’ material to accompany the alphabet code activity, a page of pictures of...

A STEM club activity where students become a junior palaeontologist and create their own replica of a fossil from the Jurassic period, learning the conditions necessary for fossilisation.

This fact sheet for primary pupils explores what fossils are and how they form. It considers why scientists study fossils and what can they tell us about the ancient creatures and plants that once lived on Earth.

Four paths are shown connecting opposite corners of a square. Tasks are to work out which is the longest path and which is the shortest path. This resource is suitable for Key Stages 2.

• Four paths...

A selection of resources published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems, investigations and puzzles to practise and consolidate students' understanding of fractions. *Fraction patterns - drawing diagrams of equivalent fractions *Decimal jigsaw - ten by ten grid in the form...

A selection of games published by BEAM to help students practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of fractions and decimal equivalents.

*Coloured shapes - colouring fractions of shapes according to a rule

*3 fractions in a line - strategy game, working out a fraction of a quantity...

Published by BEAM, these games provide a means by which students can practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of fractions and decimals. *Halves and thirds - a game for two players requiring students to find fractional quantities of numbers *Planetary wars - a dice game for two players requiring...

Fraction Matcher gives students the opportunity to explore the concept of fractions. The “Fractions Screen” contains eight levels of matching fractions using fractions less than one up to improper fraction representations for fractions greater than one. The “Mixed Number Screen” concentrates upon fractions greater...

The Fractions (General) resource here contains nine instant maths ideas exploring what is meant by a fractions, showing fractions by shading using squared paper and isometric paper, exploring what fraction of words are made up of one letter and investigating why some cancelling does work and others do not. There...

This resource contains three excel files dealing with various aspects of fractions.

Fractions of X (mental arithmetic) This excel file has four interactive sheets. Each sheet shows sets of questions where students find the fraction of given amounts. Answers can be revealed and new sets of...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of fractions, from exploring halves and quarters to investigating fractions whose decimal equivalents are recurring decimals.

Fractions pack one ...

Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on fractions and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years.

Each section offers an overview of a...

This collection of videos from MathsMaster.org explain the basics of what a fraction is, equivalent fractions, writing fractions in ther simplest form, mixed numbers, comparing fractions, calculating a fraction of an amount, adding fractions and subtracting fractions. Each demonstration explains carefully the...