NRICH have put together a range of activities suitable as Starters - Click here

The ideas on Mental Maths provide excellent starter ideas

The Mathematical Association have produced an excellent PowerPoint with 80 short problems - Click here

A really nice idea for getting pupils to co-operate and communicate adaptable for any topic with a numerical outcome.  You could add the proviso that the team only wins if you ask a random member of the group who can justify their answer - Click here

Click here for 25 Maths starter activities produced by the Essex Mathematics Team

GCSE Starter Activities Foundation and Higher Tier - Click here

Functional Skills Starter Questions - Many thanks to a team of teachers from Brighton and Hove for the following PowerPoint presentations which are designed to be used as a Starter question to prepare pupils for less structured problems, the answer is provided as well as common mistakes to look out for - Click here

Badger Publishers are extending the range of the popular Badger Starter Activities by providing versions for the INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD.

The first CD-ROM contains 30 activities selected from our maths, science, >literacy and foundation subjects books. Because they are short activities from such a variety of subjects, these GENERIC STARTER ACTIVITIES are ideal for introducing teachers to how effective the Interactive Whiteboard can be.

For the more experienced user, the activities can be easily adapted to include your own content.  They are also publishing -
* Interactive Whiteboard versions of the year 7 starter activities for MATHS
* MATHS STARTERS for Key Stage 4, starting with Year 10 in autumn 2005
* MULTIPLE LEARNING ACTIVITIES - Providing for different learning >preferences - 80 activities from Barnwell School, Stevenage - book & CD

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Click here for 50 Ideas for Mathematics Plenaries 

How about using a pack of cards or numbered cards to practice a range of mathematical skills - Click here

To visit emaths with an extensive list of links - Click here

For a document with some possible ideas for the use of individual whiteboards (show me boards) - Click here

Plenary Ideas

Word Box
Get a small box and at the end of each lesson on a topic get the class to suggest things that you should write on a small piece of paper to post in the box. This could be key vocabulary or concepts etc. Then, when you get to the end of a topic take all the pieces of paper out of the box and use these to guide a class discussion of key things to remember about the topic.

Go For Five
Don’t give out your lesson objectives at the start of the lesson! Get the pupils in the plenary to guess what your lesson objectives and things you wanted them to learn were. Tell them to go for five! Brilliant as an AFL tool for finding out what they actually did learn rather than what you wanted them to. You can be open with them and then share your lesson objectives which can lead to interesting discussions if they were different to what they suggested!