A 2 by 4 grid is presented. The numbers from 1 to 8 are to be placed in the grid so that no two consecutive numbers touch at a side or a corner. The resource is suitable for Key Stage 3 students.

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Number-up sheets contain a sheet of 40 questions designed as practice of basic skills. Students complete the questions, record how long the exercise took and their score once marked. A1 requires students to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using single digits. J1 uses a mixture of one and...

Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on numbers 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 particular...

Numeracy assessment requires students to complete a multiplication table, answer questions relating to time and money, write numbers in words, order numbers and round numbers.

This resource contains 23 instant maths ideas exploring number problems such as how many ways the digits one to nine can be combined to make 100 and how many ways 100 can be made out of four nines. Target numbers, mental squares, arithmagons, bingo and other number puzzles all provide students an opportunity to...

Mathcentre provide this numeracy refresher resource, which was developed and trialled by staff of the University of Birmingham Careers Centre and subsequently used widely throughout the HE Sector. There are sections which review decimals, fractions, averages, percentages and ratios, making it a useful resource for...

Numeracy Through Problem Solving is a sequence of five modules which develop students' ability to use mathematics together with other skills. In tackling problems of concern or situations of interest in everyday life - the original definition of numeracy, which was reinforced by the Cockcroft Report. The five...

Two resources from SMILE Mathematics containing a wealth of activities ideal for use as starter activities or as part of a plenary. Both resources concentrate upon topics from number such as four rules of number, fractions, decimals, percentages, place value and types of number.

A compilation of whole class activities from SMILE intended for use as lesson starters or as part of a plenary session.

The activities are categorised into six sections. Each section contains a number of activity...

In this logic puzzle a text box contains four statements that describe how many zeros, ones, twos and threes are contained within the box (e.g. there is 1 zero in this box). Students are challenged to complete five statements contained within a text box so that each of the statements is true.

This investigation looks at two mirrors fixed at a point. A ray of light enters the set-up, bounces around and then exits along the same path. The task is to find the angle between the mirrors....

A video is shown of a square with its diagonals marked. The resulting regions are, of course, 25% of the whole square. A motion graphic shows one of the diagonals sliding down a side to rest at the mid-point. What percentage of the whole is each region?

This is an adaptation of a print-based task designed by...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand symmetry, shape and angles.

Eight squares are places so that they each touch a vertex of an octagon. Students evaluate properties of the resulting pattern, including ideas about lines of symmetry and calculating angles between pairs of squares and...

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