Kangaroo Maths ... putting the bounce back into teaching!

 
 Number
All new resources are now accessed through the relevant interactive scheme of work, but some are still listed below.

Projector Resources

  • Arithmetic: One Thousand - a totally addictive dice game that requires a bit of adding up, an understanding of likelihood and absolutely no dice

  • Arithmetic: A PowerPoint slideshow to aid a lesson on divisibility testing

  • Fractions: Using a spreadsheet to add fractions using the 'Battenburg' method. A great activity for pupils to try themselves.

  • Fractions, decimals & percentages: Try this Year 8 'Bring on the Maths' activity focusing on calculations

  • Fractions, decimals & percentages: A general revision PowerPoint - good for GCSE intermediate groups

  • Place Value: Try this KS3 Top-up 'Bring on the Maths' activity focusing on equivalent calculations

  • Integers: This spreadsheet allows you to hide various elements of the answer or question in otherwise straightforward addition/subtraction problems including negative numbers

  • Multiplication: This spreadsheet shows how the grid method works, and has a built in puzzle feature!

  • Proportion: A Year 9 'Bring on the Maths' activity looking at currency conversions

  • Square numbers: An interesting square numbers puzzle. You might want to hand out this sheet to help.

Worksheets

  • Addition: Practising addition through a simple investigation

  • Addition: Remember the 20th February 2002? Look at these palindromic numbers.

  • Approximation: Introducing rounding by looking at money problems

  • Approximation: Using significant figures to approximate calculations. The last column is for percentage error - a nice plenary!

  • Arithmetic: Welcome to the world of happy and sad numbers. I'm not making this up!

  • Big or small: Interesting and slightly daft numbers for use when looking at standard form or significant figures

  • Coordinates: A coordinate picture that is quite challenging to complete - it includes decimals

  • Decimals: Multiplication of decimals linked with finding areas

  • Decimals: Placing the decimal point correctly in a variety of decimal calculations

  • Fractions: Equivalent fractions in fact

  • Fractions: An interesting activity that can be used to demonstrate multiplying fractions

  • Multiplication: Practical multiplication problems

  • Multiplication: A multiplication jigsaw - surprisingly challenging if you cut off the reference row and column!

  • Multiplication: Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100

  • Negative Numbers: Adding with negative numbers by looking at patterns

  • Negative Numbers: Multiplication and division of negative numbers through patterns

  • Number Properties: A lovely way to sum up multiples, factors, primes, squares and so on

  • Number Properties: The sieve of Eratosthenes with instructions for finding primes

  • Number pyramids: An OHT useful as a starter for addition or simple algebra

  • Percentages: Compound percentage problems and some very silly names

  • Percentages: An activity designed to ensure that pupils think carefully about what the question means. Lots of very similar questions and answers are given: Cut out and match them up! You might want this slideshow to start the activity.

  • Percentages: Ideal citizenship opportunity that makes humbling reading

  • Proportion: Looking at graphs of direct and inverse proportion through two examples

  • Proportion: Using a spreadsheet to investigate proportion - based on Numeracy Strategy ideas.

  • Ratio: An idea to be adapted. See what maps you can get from the Geography department

  • Ratio: Converting a ratio to the form 1:n. Some crazy facts too!

  • Square Roots: Considers the link between squares and square roots

  • Square Roots: A worksheet with good questions

  • Square Roots: A calculator game of estimating square roots

  • Standard Form: Interesting trivia disguised as a Maths worksheet