A game designed to be played on the interactive whiteboard, probably with a small group with the intentions of encouraging development of mental maths skills.  It is best used for a maths competition at the end of the lesson.  Entering the answer with an interactive whiteboard is easier within the given time as there is no need for the mouse to travel. There are two versions; one which gives multiplication questions and one with addition questions. The difference between the given answer and the correct answer is how many ballons are burst. Inspired by old fashioned theatre.

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This learning resource helps compare which fractions are bigger, smaller or equivalent.  The fractions are shown on a pulley system.  The larger fraction will hang below the smaller one.  When they are equal they will be at the same level.  Below each fraction is shown its decimal value.

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Teach your maths students how to compare positive and negative numbers using your Interactive Whiteboard.  Primarily useful as a method of questioning a class.  A map of Europe is presented on the whiteboard.  Clicking on a country produces a note showing the name of the country and its average January temperature.  Clicking on a second country produces the same for it allowing the temperatures to be compared.  Europe’s widely varying winter temperatures allows the teacher to question students on the difference between given negative and positive numbers.

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A maths game that encourages students to remember the prime numbers below 100.  This game can only be played by using the keyboard.  Students may use it on a single PC to practice or their game could be projected on to the interactive white board for a class competition.  The game is kept intentionally difficult to allow a number of students to be able to take a turn in a short time.

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The game will begin paused.  Pressing one of the arrow (cursor) keys will start it.  Use the left and right arrow keys to steer the snake.  Points are scored by eating eggs with prime numbers on them.  There will always be 2 eggs on screen, one with a prime number, one without.
Each egg eaten will make the snake grow a little longer.  The game is lost by hitting the edge of the screen, eating an egg without a prime number on it, or biting part of the snake.  A lady bird will appear and move randomly, eating this will also end the game.
A score of over 150 can be considered a great achievement! 

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This teaching resource for your Interactive Whiteboard is useful for starters or plenaries in maths lessons where you would like to practise basic money addition with your students.  A list of items appears on a receipt.  When you feel ready the students are asked to total the prices.  It is useful for the students to use mini whiteboards with this teaching resource.

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Depending on the size of your room the values may be a little small to see from a distance so it is useful to read them out as they appear.  It works well using mini-whiteboards with a competitive element added to it.  Students hold their answer up as soon as they have calculated it.  The winner is the one who gets it correct first.

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