Pie Chart Free Resources up to Higher GCSE Maths

A quick blog to share free set of pie chart resources, require no-prep printable downloads, that we produced when NumberLoving joined up with LittleStreams in collaboration.

Reading and interpreting pie charts activity free download GCSE Maths 9-1 Higher

 

The worksheets produced by Littlestreams help introduce how to calculate angles in order to construct Pie Charts. Once pupils are able to construct, you can move them into completing the NumberLoving Treasure Hunt. This requires pupils to interpret pie charts; finding amounts from pie chart sectors and includes questions like those included in Higher EdExcel and AQA GCSE 9-1 Maths papers.

The two resources can be downloaded for free using the links below;

LittleStreams drawing pie charts worksheets Free Download

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Check out our Teacher Hack blog post below which will mean no excuses when pupils say “I haven’t got a protractor”! Maths Teacher Hack- Part 1

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Pimp Your Displays

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I want to talk about ‘pimping’ those display! This year one of our focuses is displays, in and out of the classroom. We want to not only update them but reinvigorate them, move away from the dull, nonnegotiable displays that have existed for years, to exciting and movable, easily updated and useful displays!! This year we are rotating department time around the maths classrooms, each teacher hosts; setting up tables, providing a puzzle and putting the kettle! The department then decide on 2 stars and a wish for the room! I got this idea from Mr Jon Colebrook @ColebrookJon at the SSAT London Achievement Show 2015, so simple but effective as everyone takes pride in their classroom and the learning environment they provide!

Celebrating Pupil Work

Great Work Hangs Out Here

Check out my newest display, eagerly awaiting great work! The pegs make this one of the most versatile displays for celebrating pupils work. I’ve used it to peg Y12 A Level maths work up after marking a homework assessment. Also great during the lesson to peg examples of excellent answers!

I also love ‘This work is Incredible’ with Hulk presiding over the work shared by @HeadofEnglish here! Another example using pegs for interchangeable displays!

Variations on this could be an ‘In the Spotlight” display using paper that looks like stage spotlight and a “Wall of Fame”.

How do you measure up?measure2

This display is perfect for the classroom or communal areas to encourage numeracy conversations as well as give pupils more experience of estimating heights. Using a printed ruler (or Ikea paper rulers), pinned at the correct height. Update regularly with the heights and pictures of the latest A-Z list celebrities.

 

 

BIDMAS/Countdown Corner

Simple idea, give pupils a target and they have to use the operations to make the target number just like the game show.

Alternatively create a countdown corner, like the program. Both ideas are great for starters, or on-going challenges.

 

 

 

 

 

How to Learn Maths

 I found this great resource on the TES website here, by Complex_Number.

I agree completely that we have to encourage pupils to recognise mistakes as learning opportunities!

I printed two copies on two different colours to create two displays for different classrooms by mixing up the colours! Here is one of the displays

 

 

 

 

 

 

Door Display

Simply use the classroom  door to remind pupils of the difference between area and perimeter.

Use our free door (or a window) display to provide a visual of the key terminology vertical and horizontal. Download from the link below;

Maths Display; Door Display

 

Suduko Challenge

Interactive display, I let pupils complete the suduko. By using PVC electrical tape I have created a damage free display on a painted wall. The tape peels away leaving no marks. You can see the black velcro tabs, these are placed on top of the yellow tape, i.e. damage free walls and a great activity.

The pouch at the bottom holds the remaining cards and a book of suduko’s of varying challenge.

This display is total versatile because it is essential a 9 by 9 grid. Therefore it can also be used when teaching place value, multiplying and dividing by powers of ten, translations, enlargements, coordinates and so much more!

Mathematics Around the World

Create a display by asking pupils to create a Facebook profile for famous mathematicians from around the world and use string to show their country. Thank you to Mrs Walters for this awesome display!

Instant Display Work

Post-it notes and window crayons, rolls of back paper, magic whiteboard and any surface can become a display area.

We have blogged about window crayons before, check out our blog here.

Magic whiteboard, wallpaper rolls also great to create instant display of pupils’ work.

 

Bunting
So many great bunting ideas to choose from JustMaths have blogged here about A-Z keyword bunting here. Or Miss Radders discusses how to make bunting from old maths text books here. Also MissBResource’s has an awesome collection of display resources including shape and formulae (by Mr Collins) bunting here.

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Literacy in Maths Displays

Boggle
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Mrs Rojas shares how she has created her boggle display here and includes free printables. This is my next project which is ideal for the maths classroom too!

Pupils have to make words using the letters on display, award double points for mathematical words. Increase the difficulty by adding the rule that the letters must ‘connect’, vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Using sticky back Velcro again allows the alphabet cards to be changed on a daily basis!

Key Action Words

In every maths classroom, all the key action words. These are referred to on a daily basis.

 

 

 

Corridor Displays

Elements of Maths: From the awesome Just Maths team find their elements of maths display and resources here. Great for classroom or department display.

Room Numbers: Pimp your room numbers, instead of 5 use operations that give an answer of 5.

Celebration Wall: Celebrate success in using Wall of Fame, in the spotlight!

NumberLoving’s Display Shopping List

Pegs– essential to make your displays interchangeable.

Pre-cut lettering– Widely available on the internet, or if your DT has a laser cutter get them to cut some out! How have I not known about this until now?!

Velcro tabs– these provide another way of keeping your displays adaptable (Suduko or Boggle). Remember stick these on top of PVC electrical tape to avoid damage to walls.

Velcro Wall- Use felt to create a velcro wall, a great idea shared at the recent school Learning Fair by Miss Austin.

Laminator– Essential, means you can keep display for re-use in a year or two or in another classroom.

String or Ribbon– for bunting or clothes line (see great work hangs out here)

Sticky Back Plastic– reinvigorate old filing cabinets or book shelves!

Window Crayons- instant display as pupils complete questions on glass

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Creating a Multi Surface Learning Environment

Tables On a budget

Create a multi-surface learning environment on a budget is simple using paper tablecloths. Table Paper can be bought from most large supermarkets. Asda sell a pack of four for p and currently have this brightly coloured ones on offer for 50p. Alternatively banquet rolls are very handy, like this one available from Amazon.

Magic White Board

Magic whiteboard is an absolute classroom essential with a multitude of uses, check out this magic whiteboard now with a grid. This can be used again for group work in the same way as the table cloth, place one sheet in the middle of each group table, with pens and wipers.

I used the white board in this way whilst doing some Christmas relay races; check out our post Anything but More Past Papers for details of  how to run a relay race. Also check out these relay race resources by Chris Smith, as well as the weighted relay race here all kindly uploaded to the TES.

The advantage of using the whiteboard is that they can be wiped clean and used again. Check out Mr Collins post describing how he uses the magic whiteboard sticky notes instead of tracing paper here.

The Complete Multi Surface Learning Environment

Make the glass, the walls, floors and even the tables as learning surfaces!

Windows

Using window crayons you can change windows/glass into a learning surface, check out our blog Who wants Clean Windows anyway for more details.

Walls

These can become learning surfaces using the magic whiteboard described above.

Carpets/Playground

Using chalk why not try some life size constructions or loci. Use the old store cupboard equipment to construct angle bisectors, check out our post Carpet Constructions

Tables

My blue sky thinking and dream would be a department full of these write on and wipe off tables!

GALANT Desk IKEA 10 year guarantee. Read about the terms in the guarantee brochure.

Ikea sell this Gallant desk to the left which also wipes clean. Top tip from Professor Heppell and his post here is to give tables a good clean with polish, but as always test first.

Good excuse for another trip to Ikea to stock up on Ikea rulers. Check out our post Teaching Loci of how to use the Ikea rulers.

 

This kidney shape table is available from Flaghouse but be prepared for shipping, link here.

I have found a picture of what I want, this flip write on wipe off table which flips into a display or presentation board.  I think these from Merseyside Paper suppliers (page 10-11) are a possibility just need to check that the surface is dry wipe! If anyone has these type of flip dry-wipe table let me know as it would be great to get some!

If I cant any or funding my alternative budget whiteboard tables will have to be created using a product like this dry erase paint and check out a school who have created white board surfaces using the paint here.

Check out this post by Mr Adamson on his Living by Numbers Blog on how he uses his whole classroom.

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Pimp your classroom

A good display can engage students, involve them, help them recall essential facts and more than anything make your classroom a nice place to be (remember you have to spend all day in there!)

Here are some top ideas and resources to help pimp your classroom…

Interactive Displays:

How do you measure up?

By far my most popular display is this one, a tape measure with various celebrities marked on. Students will be queuing up to see whether they are as tall as Katy Perry and never again will you have to mark an exam paper where someone has estimated that a giraffe  is 2m tall.

Calculation Corner

A good display if you have students who finish and you haven’t prepared an extension. It is just lots of numbers and symbols laminated and cut out, there are lots of possibilities for this:

  • Give students a target number and use it like countdown.
  • Ask them to use all the numbers and symbols to make a calculation which is correct
  • Model how you type something into a calculator

Level & Grade ladders

What do you need to do to improve? The dreaded Ofsted question, a simple way to combat this is with these level and grade ladders. I have adapted these from several sources, printed in A3 and stuck on the wall in a ladder type pattern. Students can check against them to see what they need to do to reach the next level / grade. I also have A4 laminated copies in a wallet underneath for students to check off with a white board pen.

Display students work

Obviously a great thing to do is display students work, they love this and it gives them real pride in their work. But why stop there? Often we have different classes studying similar topics so why not let one class ‘assess’ another’s work. When you put work up have a laminated sheet of plain paper stuck next to each piece, get students to write comments on here with a white board marker.

3D shapes mobile

We blogged a while ago about making 3D shapes from cocktail sticks and midget gems. The beauty of this is that the midget gems go hard after a week or so making the models perfect to display, I have hung mine from the blinds so whenever a question comes up about a 3D shape it’s ready and waiting.

Other display ideas:

Everyone has an opinion on this and I personally think it’s good to have key words and facts displayed, students have said it helps them remember by picturing it in the classroom. This is a good example shared by kute val on the TES, another version probably best for A3 is here.

Mr Taylor has made some fun posters for fans of the popular ‘keep calm’ range, I particularly like the ‘keep calm and use a pencil’ one which now has pride of place above my desk.

This great powerpoint has been shared by allisoncam on the TES, it consists of loads of optical illusions, great to print, laminate and put up.

You can use this resource to create a timeline, each slide on the powerpoint has a famous mathematician from throughout history, you may want to update to include some more recent discoveries.

Most of us have seen word clouds, this is a great website which allows you to make them in a given shape, I’m thinking all the different shapes made up of their properties!

Other fun things you can buy:

I have regularly blogged about using the windows for display, this is such an easy way to make your classroom a bit more interesting, buy the pens here and off you go!

Lots of places stock number magnets, these are great to have on a radiator or filing cabinet and are just another thing for students to interact with.

So go on, pimp your classroom… If you have any suggestions to add to the list, let me know I am also on the look out! Get in touch @numberloving and visit our NumberLoving store for free and premium resources!!

Who wants clean windows

Recently I have developed a bit of an obsession with writing on the windows. It really attracts the pupils attention more so than a normal display and is surprisingly fun (simple things)!

You can buy washable chalk pens from most stationary shops for about £3. Underneath is a picture of my windows at the moment with some work on representing data in bar charts and pictograms. Also I have a quick plenary window for ‘one thing I have learnt’ and ‘one question I still have’ post its.

Students LOVE writing on the windows with the pens so I often use this as a prize for them winning bingo or other little activities. I will let pupils write a fact they have learnt or a little example on the window. The possibilities are endless… try it and your windows will never be clean again!

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