Friday Afternoon GCSE Mathematics: Resource Pack

Summary:
Friday Afternoon Mathematics is packed with many fun and engaging revision activities. The activities have been chosen to allow GCSE students to apply their knowledge using a variety of learning styles, and to review and reinforce their understanding of key terms and concepts. They include a host of popular games like bingo, dominoes and a range of card games. These enjoyable activities make revision exercises fun and can be used at any point within a lesson. The pack is fully photocopiable and once the teacher has a set of cards prepared they can be used over and over with all groups, bringing variety and fun to any revision session. The free CD-ROM provides a PDF version of the pack for easy printing. Also included in the pack: a specification matching chart to allow easy integration into any course, answers, suggested timings and teaching notes.

• Provides a range of enjoyable and engaging activities to develop learning styles and reinforce knowledge and understanding of key concepts
  

• Activities can be adapted for individual, paired or group work.
  

• Activities can be used flexibly in revision sessions or throughout the course.
  

Table of Contents:
1 Fractions, decimals and percentages
Foundation Bingo: Percentages
Foundation Crossword: Fractions of amounts
Foundation Dominoes: Addition and subtraction of fractions
Higher Jigsaw: Fractions and decimals
Foundation Matching and Ranking: Identifying and ordering fractions
Higher Triominoes: Percentages
2 Rounding and approximations
Foundation Bingo: Rounding to the nearest
Foundation Crossword: Rounding
Foundation Dominoes: Estimating
Higher Jigsaw: Significant figures
3 Expressions, equations and inequalities
Foundation Bingo: Simplifying algebraic expressions
Higher Crossword: Factorisation
Foundation Dominoes: Collecting like terms
Foundation Jigsaw: Solving equations
Higher Jigsaw: Solving inequalities
Foundation/Higher Triominoes: Solving equations
4 Measures
Foundation Bingo: Units of measure
Foundation Dominoes: Speed, distance and time
Foundation Jigsaw: Metric measures
Foundation Matching: Areas of 2D shapes
Higher Matching: Circles and sectors
Higher Play Your Cards Right: Dimensional analysis
5 Number properties
Foundation Bingo: Factors, multiples and primes
Foundation Codeword: Negative numbers
Foundation Crossword: Squares and cubes
Higher Dominoes: Indices
Foundation/Higher Jigsaw: Standard form
Higher Matching and Ranking: Simplifying surds
6 Angle properties
Foundation Bingo: Angle definitions
Foundation Crossword: Angles
Foundation Dominoes: Angles
Higher Dominoes: Circle properties
Foundation Matching: Angle facts
Teacher answers
Crosswords
Codewords