Maths of Dance Music Resources

Image resources to spark ideas for a great lesson. As a single zip file above or separate images below:

Use with the following YouTube videos of The Chemical Brothers 'Star Guitar' for great effect:

Salaries

Cut out and match up the careers to the salaries. Includes a template for students to arrange the cards onto and many more links to info on other careers, average salary, MP's salaries...

Credit Cards, Mortgages, Income Tax

MS Excel file for showing how expensive mortgages and credit cards can be. Useful as a good starter for explaining how compound interest accumulates and the difference that high/low payments can make. Also shows how income tax is calculated.

Personal Finance Products

Table of suggestions for pupils to begin considering aspects of personal finance products such as pensions, loans, savings and insurance.

Cost of Living

Worksheet to assist pupils in suggesting sensible estimates for the cost of living. Includes scenarios for four different lifestyle situations.

Know Your Payslip

Worksheet to prompt students for terms to understanding on a standard payslip.

Know Your Cards

Images of four different types of financial cards - credit, debit, storecard and reward card. Use as a starting point to ensure pupils know the differences between them.

Know Your Bank Statement

Worksheet to prompt students for terms to understanding on a standard bank statement.

Loop Cards

Blank 'Loop Cards' for pupils or teacher to create loops of your choice!

Numberlines

Excel file of numberlines for general use, with several different starting values and increment options.

Eye Gymnastics

Good relaxing exercise for students, they follow your pen with their eyes - not their heads - as you move it slowly around any of the paths. Perhaps students will take turns too. Afterwards get them to close their eyes whilst one of them counts to 20.

Mathematical Notation

Crib sheet for the various mathematical notation.

Autograph File: Standard -8 to +8 Equal Aspect Mode Coordinate Grid

Save setting up the page each time you open by loading this file

Quiz Files

These are the files for making your own quiz. Download, unzip and edit with dreamweaver. Don't use MS Word as it makes errors for some reason! You'll also need to edit the javascript file too.

Maths Hangman

Hangman with mathematical words

Maths Pairs

Match up the pairs of cards. There are 4 different versions of this activity here.

Matching Pairs

This is created as an example of how an interactive whiteboard can be used interactively with pupils. This one's unfinished but provides a good template to create your own 'matching pairs' activities.

Find the pairs of numbers and roman numerals!

Maths Activities

Various starter type questions for pupils and teachers to ponder. (Sorry but you'll have to work out the answers for yourselves!)