1. Starter Cards - EXAMPLES Dave Carden Liverpool LEA

2. Introduction These cards are designed to be used as oral and mental starters at Key Stages 2 to 4 Ideally they should be laminated with the sample key questions on the back Please add key questions of your own and adapt the cards to reflect the ability of your students

3. N1

4. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION If I have 4 Liverpool, how many Everton ? If I have 12 Everton, how many Liverpool ? I have 20 badges altogether ….. I have 21 badges …. If there are 3 Liverpool badges … How many Liverpool Badges can you see? How many Everton? How many badges altogether? If I had 10 badges altogether, how many would be Liverpool, Everton ?

5. N2

6. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION What is the 6 th term? ….10 th term, 20 th … What will the 5 th blue number be? What is the 10 th blue term? What is the nth term? Use the nth term to find the 30 th term, 50 th … What is the 1 st number in this sequence? …the 3 rd, 4th On your whiteboards, write the number that you think comes next. What will the 8 th number be? What will the next red number be?

7. N3

8. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION What is the 6 th term? ….10 th term, 20 th … What will the 5 th blue number be? What is the 10 th blue term? What is the nth term? Use the nth term to find the 30 th term, 50 th … What is the 1 st number in this sequence? …the 3 rd, 4th On your whiteboards, write the number that you think comes next. What will the 8 th number be? What will the next red number be?

9. A2

10. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION On your white boards, write down One bigger than 5m 2 greater than 5m 4 less than 5m Double 5m 5m less than 5 Let m = 0.2, 0.5, a quarter …… On your whiteboards write down m bigger than 5m 4 less than double 5m 3 greater than 5m and then doubled 5m squared less than a Let m = 1.2, 0.6, … On your whiteboards, write down If m = 2 what is the value of 5m ? How about m = 3, 1, a half ……

11. A4

12. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION On your white boards, write down As many pairs of fractions which satisfy this equation On your whiteboards write down As many pairs of whole numbers which satisfy this equation – one number must be negative As above with decimals and fractions Express x in terms of y On your whiteboards, write down As many pairs of whole numbers as you can which make sense in this equation

13. HD1

14. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION There were 18 people in the survey. How many are represented by the red bar? The yellow bar represents 150 people. How many in the survey altogether? …… This bar chart shows hours of sunshine for two days this week. If the red bar shows 3.5 hours, how many hours of sunshine were there in total? …… In my survey there were 6 pupils altogether. How many are shown by the yellow bar? The red bar? The red bar shows 3 people. How many were in my survey altogether? The yellow bar represents 12 students. How many …….

15. HD4

16. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION There were 21 people in the survey. How many are represented by the red bar? The green bar represents 30 people. How many in the survey altogether? …… This bar chart shows hours of sunshine for three days this week. If the green bar shows 2.1 hours, how many hours of sunshine were there in total? …… In my survey there were 7 pupils altogether. How many are shown by the green bar? The yellow bar? The blue bar shows 4 people. How many were in my survey altogether? The green bar represents 3 students. How many …….

17. HD8

18. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION In my survey there were 18 pupils altogether. How many are shown by the red slice of the pie? The yellow slice? The blue slice shows 4 people. How many were in my survey altogether? The red slice represents 3 students. How many ……. There are 16 pupils represented by the blue part of the pie chart.How many people are in the survey altogether? The yellow sector represents 30 people. How many in the blue sector? …….

19. SSM4 ( 0, 0 ) A C B

20. SSM4 SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION If the square has side 2 units and is reflected in the x axis what are the new coordinates of point A, B …… The square is reflected in the y axis …… If the square has side 6 units find the coordinates of the centre of the square. If the perimeter is 8 units find the coordinates of the centre of the square If the area …… If the square is rotated clockwise ….Each side of the square is 2 units long. If I move the square 2 units to the right, what are the new coordinates of points A, B …. The square is moved up two units …..

21. SSM7

22. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION The point(0,0) is the mid-point of the line. If A = (4,4)) what are the coordinates of point B? …A=(12,1) ….. ….B=(-3,-1) …. If this line is the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle, find the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle if B = ( -2,-2) Find the area …...