Smarties & Love Hearts
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Collect organise represent, Averages and range
ICT: Developing, presenting and communicating information
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Resource type: ICT task sheet, Investigation or project
Level: L1, L2
Here is another Level 1-2 variant on the classic ‘Smarties’ investigation which incorporates the use of a PC and Excel. I stopped using Smarties and Skittles because of the health and hygiene issues.
I stumbled upon the Foam squares at www.craftpacks.co.uk ‘Giant Jar of Foam Squares for £4.75 + 20% VAT. The exercise is in two parts: the first part a bit like Smarties and then the second part covers ‘mean, mode, median and range’.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N2/L2.3, N2/L2.4
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: L2
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, Worksheet or assignment
Another great worksheet in the never-ending Smarties series. Three level 2 tasks covering evaluating one number as a fraction of another, and adding and subtracting fractions. You will need at least one tube of Smarties.
Numeracy: Data Handling
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Smarties graphs and pie charts is yet another adaptation of our ever-popular resource. This version is aimed at L1-2 and covers pie charts, bar charts, averages and tallies.
Numeracy: Data Handling
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project
M&Ms Investigation is an adaptation of the 2007 L1-2 Smarties resource from Judith White – it is particularly useful now as it seems that sadly the Smarties factory now uses an accurate counter and all tubes contain the same number of sweets! Covers bar charts, pictograms, tallies. Also discusses averages and analyses collective data.
Numeracy: HD1/E3.2, HD1/L1.1, HD1/E3.4
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Resource generator
Skittles pictogram creator is a very clever Excel sheet to accompany our ever popular Smarties data handling resource and it a great way of combining numeracy and IT skills(many tutors are now using Skittles as an alternative to Smarties because there is more variation in the numbers/colours of sweets per packet).
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Revision material
Smarties Challenge makes a great general revision activity for L1 – L2. Covers averages, representing data, pi, fractions, percentages and more. With extension tasks.
Numeracy: HD1/E3.2, HD1/L1.1, HD1/E3.4
ICT: Charts & graphs
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Resource type: Resource generator
Level: E3, L1
A very clever Excel sheet to accompany the ever-popular Smarties data handling resource and a great way of combining numeracy and IT skills.
Numeracy: N1/E3.6
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: E3
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, Worksheet or assignment
A fabulous activity which takes learners through grouping, division by subtraction, and remainders – in a structured, logical fashion so that their pile of Smarties will gradually get eaten!
Literacy: Rs/E1.1, Rt/E1.1, Rt/E1.2, Rw/E1.1, Rw/E1.2
Free tags: Valentine's Day, Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: E1
Resource type: Assessment material, Reading comprehension
A reading comprehension exercise written in the style of a practice OCR E1 reading assignment (Task 1). It also includes OCR style tasks 2-4 (purpose of text, reading signs and symbols) – these are NOT about Love Hearts.
Love Hearts task 1 can also be used independently or alongside our popular Valentine’s Day E2-L2 Love Hearts Assignment (see below) in mixed ability classes.
Literacy: Rt/E3.1, Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3, Rt/L1.4, Rt/L1.5, Rt/L2.1, Rt/L2.3, Rt/L2.7, Rw/E2.4, Rw/E3.4, Ws/E2.2, Writing: sentence focus (punctuation & grammar)
Free tags: Valentine's Day, Smarties & Love Hearts
Context: History, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Covers alphabetical ordering, adjectives, reading comprehension, sentences and web research for E2-L2.
*Sadly the original background history (on which the comprehension is based) is no longer available on the Swizzels Matlow or Love Heart sites.
