Teaching Ideas

Lots of brilliant lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources to use in the primary classroom.

Meteor Multiplication

Shoot the meteors that have the answers to the multiplication questions. This will really test your knowledge of all your times tables! There are three levels of difficulty.

Data Analysis Explorer

In this game you need to help the Jelly Fish Fruit Snack Factory to see which flavours are the most popular with their customers. You will need to collect data, order data by tallying and make a bar graph.

Speed Challenge

Speed Challenge has now been updated to be tablet-friendly. The new version is called Daily 10 and it has new features and more curriculum coverage.

Demolition Division

A game which helps you to learn division. Tanks with division problems move towards your blaster. Fire at the correct problem to save your blaster from destruction. Good for sharpening mental maths skills.

Placing Numbers on a Number Line

A versatile number line that can be used at many different levels beginning at numbers 1 to 10 up to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. Place numbers on a number line and see how close you can get.

Diennes and Coins

Useful place value teaching resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. They cover hundreds, tens and ones and UK money. With some you will need to drag the Diennes blocks to represent the number you want. Please note the decimals section is faulty.

Match the Times

A flexible matching pairs game which can help you to tell the time.

Countdown

A great mental maths challenge where you need to use the numbers available and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target. The game does not check your solution. Works well on IWB.

Geoboard

A wonderful teaching resource for exploring shapes. Choose from three different geoboard designs and stretch out the bands to make your shapes.