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Algebra Worksheet With 11 Challenging Questions For Solving Linear Equations A worksheet containing four pages of questions on solving linear equations of increasing complexity. The grading structure is similar to that proposed for the new GCSE specification. This resource includes both a question and answer sheet. For more resources like this, visit www.tes.com/member/silvestertim Browse more KS3 algebra resources.

Algebra Worksheet With 13 Great Questions On Quadratic Equations This resource includes a worksheet with four pages of questions on quadratic equations that increase in complexity. It has a grading structure proposed for the new GCSE specification and includes both a question and answer sheet. For more resources like this, visit tes.com/member/silvestertim. Browse more KS3 algebra resources.

KS3 Lesson Planning Guide For Quadratic Equations And Graphs This resource provides teaching pedagogy for quadratic equations and graphs. It supports KS3 teachers with the planning and delivery of lessons. It includes plenaries and effective teaching techniques. For more resources like this, visit tes.com/member/silvestertim.

KS3 Lesson Planning Guide For Coordinate Geometry And Linear Equations This resource provides teaching pedagogy for coordinate geometry and linear equations. It supports KS3 teachers with the planning and delivery of lessons, and includes plenaries and effective teaching techniques. For more resources like this, visit tes.com/member/silvestertim

KS3 Lesson Planning Guide For Multiplying Out Brackets And Factorising ‘This resource provides teaching pedagogy for multiplying out brackets and factorising. It supports KS3 teachers with the planning and delivery of lessons. It includes plenaries and effective teaching techniques. For more resources like this, visit tes.com/member/silvestertim‘

KS3 Maths – Algebraic Expressions, Collecting Terms And Solving Equations This resource provides teaching pedagogy for algebraic expressions, collecting terms and solving equations. It supports KS3 teachers with the planning and delivery of lessons and includes plenaries and effective teaching techniques. For more resources like this, visit tes.com/member/silvestertim.

KS3 Maths Worksheet For Expanding And Simplifying Algebraic Expressions This maths resource includes starters, challenges and a plenary for teaching KS3 students how to expand and simplify algebraic expressions.

‘Treasure Hunt’ Algebra Resource For KS3 Maths This is a resource designed to help pupil practice expanding a single bracket. It’s intended for pupils in Year 7, after introducing expanding brackets as a main task, so that pupils get to practice their abilities at expanding a single bracket and build up their fluency. You can also use potentially it with year 11 […]

Differentiated Algebra Task Cards - Conundrums, Puzzles And Word Problem Activities For KS3 Maths This pack contains eight sets of four algebra-themed question cards, with the cards in each set representing four levels of differentiation. Each set covers a different algebra topic, ranging from simple real-life situations (‘Wrapping up; ‘Sweet treats’) to nth term questions and sequences, working with simple algebraic equations and geometry. For more resources like this, […]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Geometry to Define the Attributes of the Shapes Around Us, Like Parallelograms and Rhombuses Remind your students that maths isn’t just about numbers with this detailed lesson from Colin Foster that encourages pupils to take a closer look at what we know about geometry, and polygons in particular. What makes a parallelogram a parallelogram? Can the attributes of a shape be mathematically defined and used to decide whether, say, […]

KS3 MFL Lesson Plan – Let Learners Argue, Express And Emote To See Language Skills Soar In this lesson, let your students say what they really think, and you’ll be surprised how creative their language becomes. Have pupils mind-map from an evocative image, debate their findings and opinions on it and have them justify their declarations. Download contents: 1 x PDF lesson plan

KS3 SMSC and Citizenship Lesson Plan – Explore Children’s Right to Education Around the World Inform your school’s charity fundraising efforts with the pointers contained within this lesson plan from Richard Wood. Students begin by exploring the notion of children’s right to an education and the extent to which this can vary in different countries, before looking at the ways in which they can support efforts at improving children’s access […]

Four Algebra Settler Activities for Factorising Expressions – No Marking Needed! This is a 20 question settler activity for KS3 or KS4. There are four different versions, each containing the same questions but arranged in a different order. Students factorise the 20 expressions, shading in their answers on the grid on the left-hand side. When they have finished, there will be five unshaded answers to be […]

Algebraic statements mini whiteboard game

Algebraic statements – Mini whiteboard true or false game For this maths game, pupils will need a mini whiteboard, marker and sponge. They’ll need to write their answer to each statement you display on their mini whiteboard. Give pupils a moment of thinking time, then count students down from three before asking them to show you their answers. This approach allows you to discuss […]

Anna And The Swallow Man Reading Notes – Literacy Resource For KS2/KS3 English A 16-page PDF containing discussion questions for WW2 story Anna and the Swallow Man that’s perfect for the classroom or book clubs. This handy guide will help get your class talking, exploring the social, moral and historical questions raised by this critically acclaimed book. Kraków, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a […]

Pupils Profit Enterprise Leader Application Form – PSHE Activity Sheet For KS2/KS3 Business Studies The Pupils Profit ‘Enterprise Leader Application Form’ is a template application form that allows you to assess your pupils’ understanding of the qualities required to be enterprising. Suitable for KS2 and KS3, it can be set as a home learning task or for group work in class. The information pupils provide does not have to […]

Dove ‘Confident Me’ Single-session Workshop – Lesson Plan For KS3 PSHE This 45-60 minute single-session workshop can be used as part of the KS3 PSHE curriculum addresses the topics of representations in advertising, social media and peer pressure, and explore strategies for promoting and protecting body confidence. The Dove ‘Confident Me’ Single-session workshop includes a mix of class discussion and small group activities, with accompanying worksheets […]

KS3 Science Lesson Plan – Engaging Meteorology Activities to get Pupils Thinking about Weather, What Influences it, and How it is Predicted Dr Joanna L Rhodes presents a series of engaging classroom physics activities and app-based homework suggestions to get your pupils thinking about weather – the factors that influence it, and how weather predictions are made and presented. From viewing film clips, to making rainbows with water-filled pans and even building their own weather station, there’s […]

Ensuring Effective Staff Retention and Succession Planning – Checklist for school leadership Checklist for senior leadership across all key stages to assess the effectiveness of a school’s existing staff retention and succession planning. For more information, visit blueskyeducation.co.uk

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Show how Line and Rotational Symmetry are Linked by Inventing and Drawing Your Own Shapes From this page you can download the ‘Shape Up’ lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.5 ‘Shape Up’ teaches students about line and rotational symmetry and how they are related, getting them to invent and draw their own shapes with particular symmetries… For more information and further maths resources from Colin Foster, visit […]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Develop Algebra Skills to Help Students Rearrange Equations Confidently This maths lesson plan develops pupils’ algebra skills so that they can rearrange equations confidently, which is an important skill both in mathematics and other subjects like science and design and technology…. For more information and further maths resources from Colin Foster, visit foster77.co.uk/mathematicalbeginnings. Browse more KS3 maths games and lesson ideas. We also have maths question […]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Pythagoras’ Theorem in an Investigation to Examine the Properties of Shapes From this page you can download the ‘Hopping Along’ lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.1 ‘A Day at the C-Side’ gets Pythagoras’ theorem stuck in learners’ minds by allowing them to discover it themselves. In this lesson, pupils draw tilted squares and find their areas, then use these values to draw conclusions […]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Creative Approaches to Calculating Angles of Overlapping Polygons to Deepen Mathematical Understanding The angles created by overlapping regular polygons can be easy or difficult to calculate, depending on what information you are given. So, taking a creative approach to important mathematical processes like this can deepen students’ understanding of the principles involved and develop vital skills of reasoning and deduction. Browse more Colin Foster maths lessons.

KS3 RE Lesson Plan – Expand Students’ Knowledge of Today’s Spiritual Landscape Develop great learning habits and expand learners’ knowledge of today’s spiritual landscape, with this intriguing lesson from Craig Wright

KS3/4 History Lesson Plan – Help Students Absorb Knowledge Quickly with a Fast-Paced Pictionary-Style Activity Jeff Tooze’s pacey history lesson suggestion will get every student in the room competing to absorb the most information possible.

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