Everyday Mathematics
Planning a Kitchen: SMILE card 1310 is a booklet which requires students to design a kitchen. The first task is to calculate the cost of buying the constituent parts of a kitchen. Students have to measure furniture in their own kitchen and draw a scale diagram. Students are given scale plan drawings of furniture they can use in the…
Imaginings
Imaginings: SMILE card 2112 is a collection of multi-levelled activities to develop mental imagery skills. The activities are grouped together into seven topics; starter, 2D, folds, creases and cuts, cubes, 3D, rotations and bits and pieces. The activities provide an excellent opportunity to use mathematical language. The tasks vary…
The Highway Code
The Highway Code: SMILE card 1314 is a booklet of activities using the signs found in the Highway Code as a context. The booklet begins with a page of road signs. The first task asks students to categorise the signs by placing then into a two way table based upon their shape and their colour. The second activity requires students…
Symmetry
Symmetry: SMILE card 0880 is a booklet of activities starting with a number of photographs of objects that exhibit symmetry. In the first task students explore the line symmetry of different mathematical shapes by folding followed by an activity in which students make a symmetrical picture of their own by folding. Students then make…
Hexaflexagons
Hexaflexagons: SMILE card 0828 is a booklet giving detailed instructions on how to make a hexaflexagon. The resource includes photographs showing how to flex the hexaflexagon. There are instructions on how to colour the hexaflexagon and how to make a record of all the flexes. The resource concludes by showing a variety of alternative…
Spirals
Archimedes’ Spirals: SMILE card 1998 is a booklet of activities beginning by explaining how to draw Archimedes’ spirals using the ‘cotton reel method’. The second activity uses a ruler, protractor, string and tracing paper to work out which of the spirals given is an Archimedes spiral. Polar graph paper is…
Fractions and Decimals
Action Fraction: SMILE card 0598 is a booklet designed to support the teaching and learning of fractions. The booklet begins by using diagrams to explain how to multiply a whole number by a mixed number and is extended to multiplying a mixed number by a mixed number. Action Decimals: SMILE card 0618 is a booklet which takes the…
Reckonings
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. Counting activities gives details of a task explaining how to generate sequences and the game fizz-buzz. Place value has four activities. Number lines:…
Calculating
SMILE Card 1783 is a booklet containing twenty two activities designed for students to practice using a calculator correctly and begins with a test to find out whether students' calculator obeys the rules of BODMAS. There follows a number of activities in which students use their calculator to complete the tasks. Mystery…
Subtraction
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of subtraction. Subtraction contains six work cards with activities covering subtracting two digit numbers using physical apparatus, and using the column method. SMILE (Secondary Mathematics…
Probability
This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of probability, and a pack of activities using Pascal’s triangle. Probability pack one contains twelve work cards with a wide variety of activities covering the use of vocabulary associated…
5/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Logic and Sets
This SMILE resource contains four packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of logic and sets, from simple sorting activities to solving logic puzzles. Logic and sets pack one contains nine work cards with a wide variety of activities covering sorting activities,…
Displaying Data
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of displaying data. Displaying data contains fourteen work cards with a wide variety of activities covering drawing pie charts, drawing pictograms, using flowcharts, drawing bar charts, using…
Collecting Data
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of data collection. Collecting data contains five work cards with activities covering how to perform a vehicle survey, how to compare hand and foot size, surveying shoe size, testing hypothesise,…
Analysing and Interpreting Data
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of analysing and interpreting data, from reading information from a bar chart to interpreting cumulative frequency graph. Analysing and interpreting data pack one contains ten work cards with…
Trigonometry
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of trigonometry, from an investigation leading to Pythagoras’ theorem to using the sine and cosine rules. Trigonometry pack one contains nine work cards with a wide variety of activities…
Translation and Vectors
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of translations and vectors, from creating border patterns to working with vectors. Translations and vectors pack one contains twelve work cards with a wide variety of activities covering border…
Topology
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of topology. Topology contains fifteen work cards with a wide variety of activities covering directions on a map, colouring patterns, weaving patterns, matrix tables to represents routes on…
Shape
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of shape, from making shapes from rectangles to exploring weaving patterns. Shape pack one contains eleven work cards with a wide variety of activities covering tile patterns, dissection puzzles,…
Surface Area and Volume
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of surface area and volume, from counting the number of cubes in a solid to find the volume to finding maximum volumes of a solid. Surface area and volume pack one contains nine work cards…
Similarity and Enlargement
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of similarity and enlargement. Similarity and enlargement contains fourteen work cards requiring the students to investigate similarity of different sized dominoes, consider the effect on the…
Rotation
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of rotation. Rotation contains thirteen work cards with a wide variety of activities requiring students to explore turning patterns, complete patterns made by rotating a shape, link angles…
Reflection
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. Reflection pack one contains thirteen work cards with a wide variety of activities covering line…
Properties of Shapes
This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of shapes, from identifying shapes to investigating right-angles in polygons. Properties of shapes pack one contains nine work cards with a wide variety of activities covering…
Measurement
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of measurement, from measuring lengths using a ruler to techniques to find the thickness of a piece of card. Measurement pack one contains nineteen work cards with a wide variety of activities…
Drawing
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of activities involving drawing, from investigating growing patterns to making ellipses by folding. Drawing pack one contains sixteen work cards with a wide variety of activities covering …
Combined Transformations
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of combined transformations, from drawing symmetrical patterns to using matrices to perform shears. Combined transformations pack one contains twelve work cards with a wide variety of activities…
Coordinates
This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of coordinates. The pack contains ten work cards with a wide variety of activities requiring students to use coordinates to solve a coded message, draw a picture, use different kinds of grids…
Circle Measurement
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of circle measurement, plus two other related resources. Circle measurement pack one contains nine work cards with a wide variety of activities covering finding the length of a running track…
Angle Properties
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of angle properties, from investigating the sum of the angles in a triangle to calculating the size of angles in a circle, and a separate booklet of geometric facts. Angle properties pack one…
Angle
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of angle, from identifying right angles to working with bearings. Angle pack one contains eight work cards with a wide variety of activities covering identification of right angles and equal…
Area and Perimeter
This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of area and perimeter, from calculating area by counting squares to finding the formula for the area of a trapezium. Angle properties pack one contains fourteen work cards with a wide variety…