Area ITP
This ITP allows you to draw a series of compound shape made from squares and/or triangles onto a grid of lines or spots. Great follow-up to simple rectangles. (NNS)
Shape Surveyor Game
This online game supports pupils in being clear about the difference between area and perimeter. Squares and rectangles only. 4 levels. (Funbrain)Perimeter of simple and compound shapes
A 3-part lesson to support understanding of perimeters, including online ruler and pencil, compound shapes and full lesson plan. (NGfL Cymru)
The AweSum Challenge
This online game for both classroom-based teaching and independent learning allows pupils to solve a series of money problems as they work their way round a junior snowedome. The resource is both a resource L4 maths booster and a finance resource (reinforcing the savings habit). (WBBS)
Money Calculator
This whiteboard activity allows practice in rapid mental addition of money by clicking on coins and producing the answer. (ICT Games)Subtracting with Money
This activity uses 'virtual money' that can be dragged and dropped on the screen in order to solve a series of money-related problems. Harder problems require pupils to identify the need to change coins for lesser denominations. (BGfL)
Raising attainment at Key Stage 2 is about finding ways to move smoothly from Levels 3 to 4. However, there are certain mathematical areas which pupils find hardest to learn well - or teachers find hard to teach well. The BGfL Maths Booster is about creating opportunities to bridge the gap in these areas from Level 3 to Level 4.
Where are these gaps?
Birmingham's Athena EAZ have analysed 17,000 separate pieces of pupil data from their six schools in order to identify these areas of weakness. Birmingham Grid for Learning has been bridge-building - initially by creating new resources for pupils, more recently by collecting the web links below to teaching resources - and this year by creating our own teaching resources.Does Maths Boooster work?
Targeted pupils have shown a real improvement of 20% over non-targeted pupils and the BGfL Maths Booster has played a key role in this improvement.
Number Grid ITP
This ITP generates a 100 square. You can click on individual cells to hide or highlight them and also hide or highlight rows and columns. The prime numbers and multiples can also be highlighted. (NNS)Squaremaker
This flexible activity allows teacher (or pupils) to decide upon starting number and increment in order to generate sequences in a 2-d grid.(Ambleside Primary School)Whiteboard Sequences
This activity offers a Word document (instructions) and Excel spreadsheet (sequences whiteboard activity), in which starting number and increments are chosen and pupils guess the word behind the counter on a 100 grid.(National Whiteboard Network)
Decimal Number Line ITP
This is the ultimate ITP for explaining where all those decimal places come from! You can repeatedly magnify an interval from a given number line and divide it up again into ten equal parts. (NNS)
Fractions ITP
This ITP allows you to divide a green strip into a number of equal parts and colour some in yellow. You can describe the yellow parts as a fraction, decimal (to 3 decimal places), percentage or as a ratio of yellow to green. (NNS)4 Equivalent Fractions Activities
These four activities offer four different approaches to equivalent fractions, including a game, fraction bars, pie charts and bar charts. (Mark Weddell)
BBC ReviseWise Patterns
This BBC ReviseWise link offers a fact sheet, an activity and an excellent revision test, covering sequences derived from squares, primes, triangular numbers and rules of divisibility. (BBC)Matchstick Staircase
This activity requires pupils to solve a problem and express the solution as a generalised statement in words and symbols, with `Flash movie demonstrating the solution.Number Sequences
Choose Unit 12 teaching unit for the full Lesson Plans or just for the well-designed Resources download, to solve puzzles, describe patterns, extend sequences, explain and generalise.
Ruler ITP
This ITP provides a variety of lines and shapes that can be measured with the on-screen ruler. You can choose the ruler and the shapes or lines – or you can draw your own. (NNS)Measuring Scales ITP (MASS)
This ITP allows you to add different masses to or from a scale pan. You can add masses of 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 units. The pointer shows the total mass. You can change both the maximum value of the circular and the interval size. (NNS)Measuring Cylinder ITP (VOLUME / CAPACITY)
This ITP allows you to control two taps that pour a liquid in and out of a measuring cylinder. You can set the scale on the cylinder to a maximum of 50, 100, 200, 500 or 1000 units and the scale interval to 1, 2, 5 or 10 units.(NNS)
Number Sentences and Equations
This PowerPoint presents a series of questions to support the transition from number sentences to equations.
(Seaton Sluice Middle School)Function Machine
Function machine is a simple program which allows users to choose functions to carry out on the numbers they type into an 'Input' box. (NNS)Number Properties Bingo
This activity revises pupils’ understanding of number properties. Although based on the traditional bingo rules, the pupil also has to make decisions about which statement to cover up, based on their knowledge of number properties. (TRE, BECTA)A practice SATs maths paper - self marking!!
This labour-saving online SATs paper is self-marking, allowing the teacher time to assess where their pupils are.
Ambleweb Grapher
This online graph generator produces vibrantly coloured bar charts with fully adjustable axes and labels. (Ambleside Primary School)Line Graph ITP
This ITP allows you to enter data into a table and then create a line graph – or you can select from 4 existing data sets: temperature, journey, heights and bathtime. You can then amend the data and watch the impact on the graph. (NNS)Data Handling ITP
This ITP allows you to enter data into a table and then create a vertical bar chart, a horizontal bar chart or a pie chart. You can select from existing data sets, which you can amend to show the impact and change on the charts, or enter data the children collect. (NNS)
Line Symmetry ITP
This ITP displays a grid, which has a 'mirror' in the middle. The mirror can be set to a horizontal, vertical or diagonal orientation and then adjusted by dragging it around a central point. (NNS)Rotations on Grids
This interactive activity will automatically rotate any shaded square in all 4 quadrants, an instant resource allowing pupils to predict position on a mini-whiteboard. (Mathsonline)Order of Rotational Symmetry
This animated activity demonstrates how to calculate order of rotational symmetry. (Subtangent)
Tell the Time ITP
This ITP displays on-screen analogue and digital clocks separately or together. Times can be adjusted in different intervals of time. The clocks can run in real time or from a set time and over any interval. (NNS)Counting Your Money
This PowerPoint presentation provides a great warm-up to money calculations by in counting and changing coins and notes. (Seaton Sluice Middle School)BBC Skillswise % Changes
Calculations of percentage increases and decreases are made easy with the activity, while the quiz allows pupils to discuss how they carried out their calculations. (BBC)
Polygon ITP
This ITP displays triangles and other regular polygons with up to 10 sides. The polygon can be enlarged, translated and rotated. You can use the ruler or protractor tools to measure shapes by dragging them onto the polygons and rotating them. (BGfL)2-d Shapes Quiz
This interactive PowerPoint presentation asks pupils to identify a variety of 2-d shapes from their properties. (Primary Resources)2-d and 3-d Shapes
This online resource offers teachers notes, starter, main and plenary activities in order to revise how to identify 2-d shapes, and the properties, classification and nets of 3-d shapes. (NGfL Cymru)
Percentage Game
To provide pupils of any age with the opportunity to practise finding new percentages through doubling, halving and adding together known values. (TRE, copyright by BECTA)BBC Skillswise Introduction to %
There are 4 levels of support for reading, writing, ordering and comparing simple simple percentage changes: a Factsheet, Quiz, Game and Worksheet. (BBC)Whiteboard Percentages
This is a multi-choice link to mathematical challenges, problem solving materials, Excel activities and unit plans related to fractions, decimals and percentages (Unit 1). (National Whiteboard Network)
Table Chant
This online activity allows you to set the timer on a chanting tables activity in which a random mixture of tables questions appear to the beat of a drum. (Deltamicro)20 Tables in 1 Minute!
This online activity challenges you to answer 20 tables questions in 60 seconds. (Oswego City School District, NY)BBC Skillswise Times Tables
Learning tables is easy as 1-2-3 with the BBC’s Skillswise Factsheet, Quiz, Game and Worksheet. (BBC)
Positive Number Line ITP
This ITP generates a number line. Two markers with numbered boxes can be moved along the number line, so pupils can explore the sum or difference between the two numbers and how to write this as a calculation. (NNS)BBC Skillswise Negative Numbers
The triple whammy of factsheet, game and worksheet provides an excellent revision of negative numbers. (BBC)Temperature
This PowerPoint presentation uses a moving thermometer level to support addition and subtraction of negative numbers. (ICTeachers)
Place Value ITP
This ITP displays on-screen place value cards to construct and partition three-digit whole numbers. A card can be dragged around the screen and repositioned. You can have one or two sets of cards on the screen at a time.(NNS)
Moving Digits ITP
This ITP allows you to demonstrate the effect of multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. (NNS)
BBC ReviseWise The Number System
This is a pupil-friendly revision site, offering a fact sheet, worksheet activity and an excellent revision test for place value up to 5-digit numbers. (NNS)
