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

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

Projector Resources

  • Angles: A Year 7 'Bring on the Maths' activity focusing on finding missing angles in various diagrams

  • Area: A Year 8 'Bring on the Maths' activity looking at finding areas of various shapes

  • Area: An area and volume revision slideshow suitable for GCSE intermediate students

  • Construction: A slideshow to demonstrate one historical example of accurate mathematical constructions: rose windows

  • Mensuration: A 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' activity

  • Plans and Elevations: A quick(ish) starter

  • Nets: A quick starter - complete the diagram to make a net of a cube

  • Pythagoras' Theorem: A Year 9 'Bring on the Maths' activity which requires the use of Pythagoras' Theorem to identify right-angled triangles

  • Pythagoras' Theorem: A spreadsheet that identifies many Pythagorean triples. If pupils know how to use conditional formatting, this is a lovely activity for them to try.

  • Transformations: A Year 9 'Bring on the Maths' activity covering reflections, rotations and translations

  • Trigonometry: A trigonometry revision slideshow suitable for GCSE intermediate students

  • 3D shape: A mulitlink challenge - can students get the plan / elevations at the end?!

Worksheets

  • Angles: Cut and stick vocabulary activity

  • Area: A totally mad area trick. Guaranteed to amaze!

  • Bearings: A trimmed down version of the topograph on the summit of the Malvern Hills. With a bearing protractor overlaid it is a useful OHT to introduce the concept of measuring bearings.

  • Congruence: Investigating the ways of splitting a grid into congruent pieces

  • Construction: Group activity involving construction of plans and elevations

  • Loci: Some practical loci problems. Good as an introduction.

  • Measurement: Metric to imperial conversions

  • Measurement: Cut and stick - placing important events on a time-line

  • Polygons: Identifying the properties of various special polygons

  • Polygons: Investigating the exterior angles of polygons

  • Polygons: A quick (and basic) quadrilateral quiz

  • Pythagoras' Theorem: A lovely cut and stick activity to introduce or to recap

  • Symmetry: Using reflection to complete Rangoli Patterns. Lovely display material.

  • Tessellation: Completing tessellations and constructing your own tessellating shapes

  • Time: A no-handed clock for an OHT. Just get some pointy things to place, and ask the time!

  • Transformations: Complete the diagram for these reflections

  • Transformations: Investigating the effects of enlargement on area and volume.

  • Transformations: An introduction to translation including vectors

  • Transformations: A simpler version of the above sheet, this time no vectors

  • Transformations: The answer sheet for the above sheets (omnigraph required)

  • Transformations: A basic completing enlargements activity. The teacher needs to choose the center of enlargement to suit the ability of the group.

  • Transformations: A template for a measuring activity to enable pupils to discover how to carry out an enlargement when the centre of enlargement and scale factor are given

  • Trigonometry: Plotting the graphs of trigonometric functions

  • Volume: How many grains of rice fill your classroom?!