One area of my practice that I'm not very good at is writing resources. I would much rather find something already written and tweak it for my needs. Nothing serves this purpose better than a regenerating worksheet on Excel (other spreadsheet programmes are available). During a recent scour of the mathsnet, I came across these absolute nuggets. They are from the South Yorkshire Maths Hub and it's their Rainbow Arithmetic Materials. There are starter questions in a whole range of difficulties as well as an adaptable worksheet covering all the levels available in the starter questions workbook. The resources can be found
here.
Within the department we are currently using them as starters for S3 and S4. These worksheets cover a lot of the non calculator skills required by our N4 and N5 candidates and it is historically a weak area we're trying to address year on year. Pupils are really responding to them and are slowly working their way through the levels.
Until my next pilfering session.
