The old Standards Units produced a great set of resources including lesson activities and a booklet supporting teachers in using these and other rich tasks. They seem now to be managed or have changed into the QIA and the resources were called "Improving Learning in Mathematics." They can be downloaded or viewed on line at:
http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/teachingandlearning/downloads/default.aspx#math_learning
The general booklet supporting teachers in using these resources or in taking some more risks to develop mathematical understanding can be downloaded via this link to the NCETM website: http://www.ncetm.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=13&module=res&mode=100&resid=1442

Helping Year 11 revise

After the SL day in February Fred circulated the questions that could be used by year 11 to categorise the types of questions they could be asked and then to devise strategies for answering them. These are available from this link: http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/media/maths-documents/index.php
A quick summary of the topics is as follows:
Percentage questions
A to D grade factorising questions
Percentage right and wrong
Ratio and proportion questions
Similar shapes, circle theorems and sectors (also answers available.)

You may want to direct students to the sites listed as "Revision sites" on the left of this page. Check them yourself first though, some of them, like Kangaroo maths, might need some explanation as to how to navigate to what you want them to look at. Some, (Kangaroo maths again) include the answers too so you might want to keep this secret if you are going to use the resources as tests/homework tasks.

Transition Poster from Subject Leaders' Days

Here is the link to the poster that primary school students may be using this summer to complete a picture of "My Maths" as mentioned on the SL day in February. I was thinking that this sort of thing could also be used by students facing exams as a revision exercise - e.g. one for fractions with categories breaking down all the way fractions may be addressed and their notes as to how to tackle such questions.
The link again is http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/media/maths-documents/index.php

APP resources from Subject Leaders' Day Feb 2009

Here are some of the resources we looked at on the Subject Leaders' Day in February 2009. The are all accessed from the same link but a quick summary is as follows:
"APP Assessment Guidance" is a spreadsheet showing what the skills are at each NC level for the 6 categories in the APP assessment document.
"bap markbook" is nothing to do with bread rolls but is actually a very useful spreadsheet for keeping a record of the recognising of evidence for students you teach. Completing a class list on the first page updates all of the others and a simple colour coding shows a record of what each student has achieved.
"Very Simple Version" is Fred's spreadsheet simply showing the headings on a termly basis which you could use to track the recognising of achievement in each category. The sort of spreadsheet my mum understands.
The link to all of these is http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/media/maths-documents/index.php