Tes Maths: Effective formative assessment

Quizzes, puzzles, challenges and homework tasks to use as formative assessment tools for secondary mathematics

Tes Resources Team

Secondary maths student using formative assessment tools including homework tasks, quizzes and challenges to self assess learning

Delve deeper into what formative assessment really means for you and your students

Frequent formative assessment in lessons offers students a great opportunity to gain immediate feedback from teachers and, in turn, for teachers to assess students' understanding and comprehension of a concept or problem. Formative assessment is a fantastic tool to employ as part of your everyday pedagogy, so why not help students self-assess their strengths and weaknesses in maths, with a view of continuous improvement, using this fantastic collection of resources?

Multiple choice and pop quizzes

30 Number Starters- Multiple Choice Quizzes
bcooper87

30 Number Starters- Multiple Choice Quizzes

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A PowerPoint with 30 multiple choice quizzes, good for AFL if you give students cards labelled a,b,c,d to wave. Ideal for KS3 and GCSE students. Includes lots of percentage work, decimals, addition, multiplication and division practise, rounding, decimals, primes, squares, HCF, LCM. Hope you fi...
Multiple Choice Starter Questions
pbrucemaths

Multiple Choice Starter Questions

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A multiple choice question linked to every objective (I think?!) on the GCSE syllabus. Use them to assess what pupils need teaching, what misconceptions need addressing or what students already know. \*\* a few slides have been corrected 2/10/17 **
Functional Skills Maths - Multiple Choice Quizzes
colinbillett

Functional Skills Maths - Multiple Choice Quizzes

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Functional Skills A set of multiple choice quizzes that I created for Functional Skills Mathematics, covering the mathematical topics as revision for functionality. Equally they can be used at any level for starters, fillers, or just a bit of fun. (All images are mine, I think, and mostly taken b...
Multiple Choice quizzes - GCSE maths higher
steele1989

Multiple Choice quizzes - GCSE maths higher

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Multiple choice quizzes to help recall knowledge through low stakes testing. Answers included. Powerpoint included for those who would like to edit any questions \*\*updated 04.06\*\* Two more multiple choice quizzes put on. Re uploaded 150517 edition due to wrong answer. Hope they are s...
Maths KS3 KS4 Quiz powerpoint
Daniel Burke

Maths KS3 KS4 Quiz powerpoint

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As the title suggests, I made this as an end of year quiz to end the year with a bit of fun and competition, but could be equally used as a revision tool. Loosely speaking, the 1 point questions are level 4, up to the 5 point questions which are level 8, so suitable for a wide range of abilities.
Function Machines - Multiple Choice Quiz
empowerlearning

Function Machines - Multiple Choice Quiz

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Engage your students with this interactive formative assessment resource. This PowerPoint presentation is designed to help assess students knowledge and understanding of function machines, allowing the teacher to receive instant whole-class feedback. **Key features:** * Interactive PPT Format: ...

Maths mazes and homework tasks

Maths worksheet: Negative numbers maze inc BIDMAS
Tristanjones

Maths worksheet: Negative numbers maze inc BIDMAS

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A challenging maze. Join the question number to its answer. Lines can only go horizontally or vertically but may at times pass through other points to get to their destination or even over other lines. Do not answer the questions in order, start with 7 and then do the questions in the sequence ge...
Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity
MissEHoney

Solving 1 Step Equations Maths Maze Activity

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These self-checking, no-prep printable maze worksheets will give KS3 students a fun way to practise Solving One Step Equations (with positive x's). These maths mazes can be used for class work, warm-ups, additional practise, homework or you can give them to early finishers. Included: 3 mazes (la...
Probability homework or revision resource
silvestertim

Probability homework or revision resource

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This resource is accompanied by an answer document. It is aimed at students who have been taught probability and relative frequency. The questions include a wide range of contexts (with Venn diagrams, pie charts and various other diagrams requiring correct interpretation to derive relative frequency...
Percentage increase/decrease maze
jmathsresources

Percentage increase/decrease maze

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This is a maze worksheet designed to consolidate learning on percentage increase and decrease. Students need to work through the maze by answering the questions. This maze includes a variety of questions, such as worded, algebra and fraction questions. Students may require a calculator for some ques...