Add-ons
Add-ons are part of the T5 (‘Targeting level 5’) pack. There are twelve Add-ons, each covering one of the major areas of mathematics drawn from the level 4–6 Key Stage Three National Curriculum test papers, with a particular emphasis on those areas crucial for achieving level 5. Each Add-on includes four to seven…
Section Three: Handling Data Lessons
These lessons, from the Targeting Level 4 programme by the National Strategies, are designed to support teachers working with year seven students who need to consolidate work at level three and extend into level four. The lessons, which are quite detailed, focus on teaching strategies to address the stated learning objectives. They…
Section Three: Shape and Space Lessons
The lessons, from the Targeting Level 4 programme by the National Strategies, are designed to support teachers working with year seven students who need to consolidate work at level three and extend into level four. The lessons, which are quite detailed, focus on teaching strategies to address the stated learning objectives. They…
Section Three: Number Lessons
These lessons, from the Targeting Level 4 programme by the National Strategies, are designed to support teachers working with year seven students who need to consolidate work at level three and extend into level four. The lessons, which are quite detailed, focus on teaching strategies to address the stated learning objectives. They…
Sample Plans for Low Attainers
A set of sample plans from the National Strategies looking at number, algebra, geometry and measures. Each sample plan identifies the required prior knowledge, suitable teaching approaches, list of resources and the expected learning outcomes. The resources to implement the lessons accompany the plans as word documents than can…
Section Three: Algebra Lessons
The Algebra lessons, from the Targeting Level 4 programme by the National Strategies, are designed to support teachers working with year seven students who need to consolidate work at level three and extend into level four. The lessons, which are quite detailed, focus on teaching strategies to address the stated learning objectives.…
Section Four: Consolidation Lessons
These 12 revision lessons on topics that many students will have met before are, with some of the detailed content. 1. Place value, addition and subtraction Use standard column procedures to add and subtract whole numbers. 2. Multiplication Multiply and divide integers and decimals mentally by 10, 100 and 1000, and explain…
Proportional Reasoning Transition Lessons
These transition lessons from the National Strateigies have been developed to support transfer from middle to upper schools but will also support year-on-year transition in Key Stage Three for all secondary schools. Three pairs of transition lessons are available: • Fractions, decimals and percentages, two lessons towards…
Teaching Mental Maths From Level Five: Statistics
This National Strategies booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics in its broadest sense beyond national curriculum level five. Each area is covered by looking at teaching strategies, activities and progression charts. This booklet looks at the Data Handling Cycle which covers the areas…
Teaching Mental Maths From Level Five: Measures and Mensuration in Number
This National Strategies booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond National Curriculum level five. The activities described build on and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: number. The resource includes activities that target…
Teaching Mental Maths From Level Five: Measures and Mensuration in Geometry
This booklet from the National Strategies describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond National Curriculum level five. The activities described in this supplement build upon and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: geometry. It includes activities…
Teaching Mental Maths From Level Five: Measures and Mensuration in Algebra
This National Strategies booklet describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond level five. The activities described in this supplement build upon and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: algebra and are designed to support pupils in developing…
Teaching Mental Maths From Level Five: Geometry
This booklet from National Strategies describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond level five. This booklet covers: • geometric reasoning (lines, angles and shapes); • using symmetries, reflections, rotations and translations; • enlargement and similarity; •…
Teaching Mental Mathematics From Level Five: Algebra
A National Strategies booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics in its broadest sense beyond National Curriculum level five. Each area is covered by looking at teaching strategies, activities, progression and addresses typical algebraic misconceptions. The booklet covers: • algebraic…
Teaching Mental Mathematics From Level Five: Number
This National Strategies booklet describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities in its broadest sense beyond national curriculum level five. This booklet covers: • place value; • ordering and rounding; • fractions, decimals, percentages and their equivalence; • ratio…
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Will It or Won't It?
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies aims to develop students’ understanding of angle properties in shapes. It begins with the idea of tiling a floor and which shapes will tessellate. After an initial emphasis on discovering angle facts from regular polygons, the unit moves on to using angle facts to predict…
Fractals
This National Strategies Study Plus unit has been designed to cover a number of areas of mathematics, particularly work with number and algebra. It also addresses a range of learning styles along with links to literacy and ICT through the use of spreadsheets. Using the topic of fractals, studnets explore the patterns and sequences…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
In this Study Plus unit from the National Strategies, using the subject of global warming, students look at and analyse data to answer the question ‘Is there global warming in the world?’. In the module students are expected to analyse the data through drawing charts and diagrams and then interpreting the charts. Students…
Disaster Relief
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies asks students to plan the relief aid for a fictitious tsunami along the South American Pacific coast. The project is centred on Concepción, Chile’s second largest urban conurbation. This was the scene of an actual tsunami in 1960, after an earthquake off the Chilean coast. A…
Stop the Press
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies, takes a practical example of costing advertising space in a newspaper and involves the use of spreadsheets to assist in calculating and re-calculating costs. It aims to develop students' awareness of the need for algebraic formulae. Students need to understand why a formula…
Towers
This mathematical investigation from the National Strategies Study Plus collection starts with the idea of someone being locked up in a tower. The context could to be adapted so that it will appeal to the students, for example built around spies, knights of old, or TV characters. The tower shape and number of windows is varied…
MP3 Players
In this Study Plus unit from the National Strategies students investigate buying and using an MP3 player. They consider best buys and compare different MP3 players, using proportional reasoning. The unit looks at scatter graphs, ratio and proportion, percentage changes, and simple functions arising from real-life problems. The…
Line Painting
In this Study Plus unit from the National Strategies, students are given opportunities to explore line painting through a practical approach, enabling them to appreciate the need to use algebraic reasoning in a visual setting. The main themes are using and applying mathematics, constructing functions arising from real life problems…
Drop Dead Gorgeous
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies engages students in discussion about attractiveness, using photographs of the faces of famous people. The aim of this unit is for students to explore the golden ratio as a determinant of attractiveness. In particular the link to facial beauty is explored using the ideas of ratio and…
Boxes
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies develops an understanding of volume and surface area of 3D objects through exploring nets. There are opportunities for practical work in all of the lessons. The unit looks at perimeter, area and volume in context. In addition, there are opportunities to develop visualisation and…
Mathematical Challenges for Able Pupils in Key Stages One and Two
This book of challenges for more able students from the National Numeracy Strategy contains puzzles and problems. These are accessible to a wide range of students. There are four separate files covering Years One and Two, Years Three and Four, and Years Five and Six and the solutions. The problems are intended to challenge students…
Key National Strategy Resources for GCSE Mathematics
This is a selection of CPD resources including teaching ideas from the Secondary National Strategy, chosen to support planning, teaching and assessment. The resources cover: • Geometrical reasoning including Visualisations, Build-ups, Sample problems and Planning • Proportional reasoning including Fractions, Ratio,…
Developing an Exam Question: Generalising Patterns A8
In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students will learn to: use past examination papers creatively, explore, identify, and use pattern and symmetry in algebraic contexts, investigate whether a particular case can be generalised further, understand the importance of counter-examples, develop the ability to generalise from…
Activity Templates
Standards Unit: Improving Learning in Mathematics activity templates. Templates • Table: 2 columns x 4 rows • Table: 2 columns x 8 rows • Dominoes • Table: 4 columns x 4 rows • Table: 2 columns x 3 rows Landscape • Table: 3 column portrait • Hexagonal jigsaw • Table: 3 column landscape •…
Decision and Mechanics Materials
Standards Unit: Improving Learning in Mathematics activities to support the learning of decision and mechanics. The 'Active Learning' session plans including starting points, processes and photocopiable resources. Materials • Moving from Eulerian graphs to the route inspection (Chinese postman) problem - Learners…
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Working Internationally
This resource from the Department for Education is designed to help students to understand the relative nature of time, and how this affects working in an international environment. Students are required to record the time in different time zones on the provided worksheet. They then consider some of the consequences of one time…
Taking a Risk
This resource from the Department for Education is designed to use and apply the uncertain and difficult nature of probability calculations in the real world through the work of an actuarial trainee. Students are provided with data on sea piracy, and use this to calculate the annual cost of piracy to the shipping industry, the probability…
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