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"An amazing collection of printable maths sheets, and questions/activities for the class whiteboard on a huge array of topics for all levels of schooling."

"While I did enjoy David Burgess' Teach Like a Pirate, and the hangout that she shared with us, I'll admit… it made me kind of sad.  Not because of the content itself!  But because of the hard memories it brought up.  I used to teach creatively and encourage innovation in my classroom like that.  When I graduated college, I was chock full of ideas and adored hands-on learning.  But my communication skills was parents was very weak and my administrator was a frustrated man who decided his best way of control was micromanaging.  It's a bit of a long story, but the end result is I was knocked down to stop being creative; to just follow the curriculum and to push worksheets. " Wow. As I read this teacher from Dr. Lee Graham's class (they are in gamifi-ed with my students) I'm so touched by how the teacher helps us feel what is happening to TOO MANY TEACHERS. Too many teachers are being pushed down to teach the wrong way. Worksheet wonders and we wonder why no one loves to learn. This is sad and must change. I hope you'll comment.

some free resources, as well as purchasable booklets/individual activities.

Tinkering works. Read Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager's book "Invent to Learn" which talks about tinkering and how to use Maker Spaces to promote it to learn more. Great points from Lifehacker: "Research in the science of learning shows that hands-on building projects help young people conceptualize ideas and understand issues in greater depth. In an experiment described in the International Journal of Engineering Education in 2009, for example, one group of eighth-graders was taught about water resources in the traditional way: classroom lectures, handouts and worksheets. Meanwhile, a group of their classmates explored the same subject by designing and constructing a water purification device. The students in the second group learned the material better: they knew more about the importance of clean drinking water and how it is produced, and they engaged in deeper and more complex thinking in response to open-ended questions on water resources and water quality... it involves a loose process of trying things out, seeing what happens, reflecting and evaluating, and trying again."

This is a wonderfully simple maths quiz site with a good collection of activities for the 4 operations. Choose your category and get 10 randomly generated questions to answer. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

High school topics. Click on a topic and find lessons in that area.

A great site which has a vast amount of English language resources for both native and learners of English as a second language. Sections include business English, grammar, games and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language

A great maths site with flash resources, online tests and worksheets on a range of maths topics to print or use on your whiteboard. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

This site has a good collection of Maths, English, Science & Social Studies PDF worksheets and online interactive resources to use with your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Create a 'doubles' worksheet. The sheets can be customised by choosing the size of the numbers to double. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Create a 'number bonds to...' worksheet. The sheets can be customised by choosing which number to total to. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good maths website from the US with online questions, worksheets and factsheets on a range of numeracy topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good site with lots of resources for teaching time, including worksheets and an interactive clock at http://time-for-time.com/swf/myclox.swf. http://j.mp/JjSQvt http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Make maths worksheets with this tool from microsoft. Just write one example question and the program will generate more questions of the same type and even provide an answer sheet. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A superb site for creating a range of English game and activity sheets to use in your class, including word and paragraph scrambles, matching pairs and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A fabulous maths blog with a huge catalogue of Primary maths resources, many of these available to download as PDFs. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths