A Level Math RevisionThemed maths: seasonal lessons for A Level Maths
Ready-to-teach lesson packs for the days in the school year that classes look forward to. Each pack has a 5-minute starter, a 30–40 minute main activity, an extension, suggested timings, full worked answers and a printable student sheet. Every question is original and every answer is checked by computer.
Level: A Level Maths (Year 12 and Year 13). Free to use and print.
Next up
Through the year
October
Ada Lovelace Day
Algorithms, loops and sequences: trace a step-by-step method, then meet the Bernoulli numbers.
Open the lesson pack → 31 OctoberA LevelHalloween
Zombie outbreaks, pumpkin volumes, trick-or-treat probability and a haunted-house coordinate maze.
Open the lesson pack →November
Bonfire Night
Firework rockets as quadratics and projectiles, and ‘Remember, remember’ number patterns.
Open the lesson pack → 23 NovemberA LevelFibonacci Day
The Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, recurrence relations and the limit of the ratios.
Open the lesson pack →December
February
e Day
Compound interest, continuous growth and the limit that defines e.
Open the lesson pack → 14 FebruaryA LevelValentine’s Day
Heart curves, cardioids and the probability of a perfect match.
Open the lesson pack → FebruaryA LevelWomen in maths
Mathematician cards: Sophie Germain primes, the curve named after Maria Agnesi and Florence Nightingale’s rose diagrams.
Open the lesson pack →March
July
Any time, or the date varies
Spring egg geometry
Ellipses, egg-shaped curves, volumes and similar solids.
Open the lesson pack → Summer termA LevelBig tournament statistics
Made-up tournament data: averages, spread, scatter graphs, correlation and predictions.
Open the lesson pack → Any timeA LevelEclipse geometry
Similar triangles and angular size: why the Moon can just cover the Sun.
Open the lesson pack →How to use a pack
Open the pack, put the starter on the board as students arrive and hand out the student sheet for the main activity. The answers are in a closed ‘For teachers’ section on each page and in a separate answers PDF, so you can project the page without giving them away.
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