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Missing DigitsA nice activity in which students have to find the missing digits in the given additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions. Other resources by this author can be found at:
Integer flipchartsThese are some ActivStudio flipcharts that I created for teaching integer operations. Note that some of the pages are from flipcharts that I downloaded from the Promethean Planet website. To view these flipcharts, you need to have ActivStudio on your computer. Or ... Go to It is a big download, about 230 MB. But it is free. And you are allowed to use this software in your classroom with any IWB, or even with just a computer and data projector. Once it is installed, you can then open the flipcharts. And you also have access to hundreds (thousands?) of other teacher-created maths flipcharts at http://www.prometheanplanet.com/ You may have to register again as this is a different Promethean website, but once you are registered, click on Resources / Lessons etc. You will find a large collection of teacher-created Maths flipcharts. The quality varies from great to ... well, useful for ideas.
Cell Phone MathsThis resource attempts to emulate a cell phone calculator. The teacher can demonstrate how to use the simple calculators to do useful real world maths. At the moment 2 types of real world questions can be generated by the resource: percentage discounts and area. Instructions Resource
Circuit MathsA challenging activity - students have make all of the correct connections between a question and its answer whist working under a tight time limit. If you are too slow .... well BOOM! Three thumbs up!
Follow-On MathsA really cool mental computation activity. Love it! Three thumbs up!
Number Facts BingoA bingo game to reinforce basic number facts and mental computation. The bingo books to accompany this activity can be found at
Order of Operations GameA very cool activity, and a fun way to practice the order of operations. http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mejhm/html/object_interactives/order_...
Percent of MoneyA short series of interactive demonstrations to see how to find percentages of money. http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perce...
One to TenThe computer randomly chooses 4 digits. Use the four digits and the arithmetic functions - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division (and also Exponents and Parenthesis) to form the numbers from 1 to 10.
Fraction Operations with the TI-NspireBelow are two TI-Nspire documents from Spencer Williams that show visually the operations of adding and subtracting fractions. There is also a pdf file to support the use of these in the classroom. Thanks, Spencer, for sharing these.
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