Resources
Percentage Increase
The match card resource consists of six cards which require the students to increase an amount by a percentage, six cards which contain a multiplier and six cards each containing a value. Students are require to match the question with the multiplier and the solution.
The percentage increase worksheet...
Percentages
This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of percentages, from the pictorial representation of the definition of a percentage to finding percentage increase.
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This excel file begins with finding percentages of amounts without using a calculator. There are various options to allow for different degrees of difficulty of the questions posed. Answers can be revealed and new sets of questions generated.
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This resource contains eleven instant maths ideas covering a whole range of suggestions that may be used as starter questions, extension questions or probing questions to assess understanding. Topics include: comparing fractions by converting to percentages, exploring the difference between increasing by 200% and...
Percentages
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on percentages 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...
This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘percentages and fractions’. Resources comprise:
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Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem
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Act Two:...
Percentages in finance: assessment
To complete this Core Maths students need to be familiar with financial concepts including taxation, National Insurance, and buying and selling shares.
The assessment task os based on the use of...
Perception
This article looks at how signals from the eyes are interpreted by the brain, unconscious perceptions, and what brain disorders can tell us about consciousness.
This set comprises of one set of lateral distortion goggles (vision offset by approx 30 degrees); a set of inversion goggles (everything appears upside down); and two soft balls (one green and one orange).
Activites can be downloaded from www.uniview.co.uk.
Perfect and Mersenne Numbers
Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.
In this presentation the definition of a perfect number is explained and students are challenged to show that 496 is a perfect...