Starters

Short tasks that get students thinking early.

This section is focused on three classroom-ready starter formats: Odd One Out, Always Sometimes Never and Spot the Mistake.

Each one is being polished as a complete interactive tool for projection, discussion and quick mathematical reasoning.

Starter collections

Choose a quick activity to project.

Project four options and ask students which one does not belong. Each grid is designed to allow several defensible answers.

Useful for discussion, reasoning, vocabulary and challenging students to justify their thinking.

Project a mathematical statement and ask students whether it is always, sometimes or never true.

Useful for examples, counterexamples, misconception checking and precise mathematical language.

Show incorrect working and ask students to identify the first mistake, explain it and correct it.

Useful for diagnosing misconceptions and getting students to discuss mathematical reasoning.