1. What are the possibilities?
Situation
Choose the activity(ies) that best suit your students’ learning needs
Warm-up
Use this short activity to get students to think about the information in a question . Ideal for the beginning of the lesson
Four questions that encourage students to think about alternative questions using the same information
What are the possibilities?
Thinking harder
Four questions that require students to use higher order thinking skills in order to consider question alternatives
Some more to try
Opportunities to use the same approach in different contexts
Reflection
Students can assess what they still need to learn and the grade they are working at.
Content covered
Test yourself cards
Print so students can learn the key points. Take home or work in pairs.

2. Situation – Content covered
Reflection E
Length, area and volume
Work out the area of rectangles and shapes made up of rectangles D
Work out the area of a triangle
Calculate the area of compound shapes
Recall and use C = 2πr and A = πr² C
Use Pythagoras' Theorem
Solve perimeter and area problems involving shapes involving circles
Calculate the volume and surface area of cuboids, prisms and cylinders

3. The diagram shows a prism. The prism is 9 cm long.
Warm up
Situation – Warm-up
Answers
The diagram shows a prism.
The prism is 9 cm long.
1. What is the length of EF?
2. What is the length of CD?
3. What is the size of ACD?
4. Make up a simple question about this situation.

4. Situation – What are the possibilities?
The diagram shows a prism.
The prism is 9 cm long.
1. What can you work out from this information?
2. How long is AC? (4 marks)
3. Make up a mark scheme for this question.
4. Write your own exam question about this situation.
Question 3
Three kinds of marks can be given:
B for something being correct, irrespective of method
M for carrying out a correct step
A for a correct answer
Question 4
Use the prompts button below to help students who are unfamiliar with this style of question
Use the thinking prompts button to help students be more creative with their questions.
Thinking prompts
Prompts
Answers

5. Situation – Thinking harder
Warm up
Situation – Thinking harder
Answers
The diagram shows a prism.
The prism is 9 cm long.
1. Work out the volume of the prism.
2. Work out the surface area of the prism.
3. A bug travels from C to D to A. How far does it travel?
4. Can you think of a real life situation where you would come across a shape like this? 5

6. Situation – Some more to try Answers
Warm up
Situation – Some more to try
Answers
1. This is a cylinder, radius 6 cm, height 5 cm.
Work out the surface area of the cylinder. Use π = 3.14.
2. The larger radius is 8 cm.
Calculate the area of the shaded part. Use π = 3.14.
3. All of the angles are multiples of 45.
Calculate the area of this shape.

7. Click below the button to reveal the grades
Warm up
Situation – Reflection
Click below the button to reveal the grades
I can   
Calculate the area of compound shapes
Recall and use C = 2πr and A = πr²
Use Pythagoras' Theorem
Solve perimeter and area problems involving shapes involving circles
Calculate the volume and surface area of cuboids, prisms and cylinders D D C C C
Self assessment
Self assess
Find or write some evidence to support your assessment
Write down your next steps
You may wish to use the Test Yourself cards.

8. Situation – Test yourself cards
Warm up
Situation – Test yourself cards
These cards have the things you may need to learn in order to do length, area and volume questions.
Copy down the ones YOU need or ask your teacher for a printout.
radius
How do you calculate the circumference of a circle?
distance from the centre to the edge of a circle
Pi (π or 3.14) times the diameter)
circumference
How do you calculate the area of a circle?
distance around a circle (its perimeter)
Pi (π or 3.14) times the square of the radius
How do you calculate the area of a rectangle?
How do you calculate the volume of a cuboid?
length times width
length x width x height
How do you calculate the area of a triangle?
What is Pythagoras' theorem?
half base times height
a2+ b2= c2 in a right angled triangle with c on the longest side
Test Yourself cards

9. Situation – Answers for Warm-up
1. 5 cm
2. 9 cm
3. 90
Possible simple questions include:
What is the length of AE? [answer: 9 cm]
What is the length of FD? [answer: 12 cm]
What size is EFD? [answer: 90°]

10. AC² = AB² + BC² = 25 + 144 1 mark = 169 1 mark AC = 1 mark
Situation – Answers for What are the possibilities?
1. Possible things that could be worked out include:
Length of BF
Length of DE
Length of AD
Area of triangle ABC
Q2. and Q3.
AC² = AB² + BC²
= mark
= mark
AC = 1 mark
= 13 cm 1 mark
4. Possible exam questions include:
Calculate the volume of the prism. [3 marks, grade C]
Calculate the surface area of the prism. [4 marks, grade C]

11. Situation – Answers for Thinking harder
cm³
cm² cm
4. A piece of cheese; a wedge for a door; a ramp;

12. Click on the question to reveal the solution
Situation – Answers for Some more to try
Click on the question to reveal the solution
1. This is a cylinder, radius 6 cm, height 5 cm.
414.48
cm²
Work out the surface area of the cylinder. Use π = 3.14.
2. The larger radius is 8 cm.
100.48
cm²
Calculate the area of the shaded part. Use π = 3.14.
3. All of the angles are multiples of 45.
72 cm²
Calculate the area of this shape.

13. Think of a really obvious question Think of a really easy question
Situation – Prompts
Think of a really obvious question
Think of a really easy question
Think of a really boring question
Think of a really short question
Think of a really hard question
Think of a really strange question

14. Situation – Thinking Prompts
Could I make a question with fractions in it?
Is there a question that would involve the number 90?
Is there a question that would mean adding some of the numbers?
Is there a question that would mean dividing?
Could I make a question with an answer less than 1?
Could I make a question worth 2 marks?
Could I make a question worth 5 marks?
Is there a question that would involve multiplication?