Comment recorded on the 19 October 'Starter of the Day' page by E Pollard, Huddersfield:

"I used this with my bottom set in year 9. To engage them I used their name and favorite football team (or pop group) instead of the school name. For homework, I asked each student to find a definition for the key words they had been given (once they had fun trying to guess the answer) and they presented their findings to the rest of the class the following day. They felt really special because the key words came from their own personal information."

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"I am thankful for providing such wonderful starters. They are of immence help and the students enjoy them very much. These starters have saved my time and have made my lessons enjoyable."

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"We all love your starters. It is so good to have such a collection. We use them for all age groups and abilities. Have particularly enjoyed KIM's game, as we have not used that for Mathematics before. Keep up the good work and thank you very much
Best wishes from Inger Kisby"

Comment recorded on the 9 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Mr Jones, Wales:

"I think that having a starter of the day helps improve maths in general. My pupils say they love them!!!"

Comment recorded on the 12 July 'Starter of the Day' page by Miss J Key, Farlingaye High School, Suffolk:

"Thanks very much for this one. We developed it into a whole lesson and I borrowed some hats from the drama department to add to the fun!"

Comment recorded on the 21 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Mr Trainor And His P7 Class(All Girls), Mercy Primary School, Belfast:

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Comment recorded on the 10 April 'Starter of the Day' page by Mike Sendrove, Salt Grammar School, UK.:

"A really useful set of resources - thanks. Is the collection available on CD? Are solutions available?"

Comment recorded on the 28 May 'Starter of the Day' page by L Smith, Colwyn Bay:

"An absolutely brilliant resource. Only recently been discovered but is used daily with all my classes. It is particularly useful when things can be saved for further use. Thank you!"

Comment recorded on the 1 August 'Starter of the Day' page by Peter Wright, St Joseph's College:

"Love using the Starter of the Day activities to get the students into Maths mode at the beginning of a lesson. Lots of interesting discussions and questions have arisen out of the activities.
Thanks for such a great resource!"

Comment recorded on the 19 June 'Starter of the Day' page by Nikki Jordan, Braunton School, Devon:

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Comment recorded on the 3 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Fiona Bray, Cams Hill School:

"This is an excellent website. We all often use the starters as the pupils come in the door and get settled as we take the register."

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"This is a great memory aid which could be used for formulae or key facts etc - in any subject area. The PICTURE is such an aid to remembering where each number or group of numbers is - my pupils love it!
Thanks"

Comment recorded on the 1 February 'Starter of the Day' page by Terry Shaw, Beaulieu Convent School:

"Really good site. Lots of good ideas for starters. Use it most of the time in KS3."

Comment recorded on the 9 April 'Starter of the Day' page by Jan, South Canterbury:

"Thank you for sharing such a great resource. I was about to try and get together a bank of starters but time is always required elsewhere, so thank you."

Comment recorded on the 3 October 'Starter of the Day' page by S Mirza, Park High School, Colne:

"Very good starters, help pupils settle very well in maths classroom."

Comment recorded on the 8 May 'Starter of the Day' page by Mr Smith, West Sussex, UK:

"I am an NQT and have only just discovered this website. I nearly wet my pants with joy.
To the creator of this website and all of those teachers who have contributed to it, I would like to say a big THANK YOU!!! :)."

Comment recorded on the 1 May 'Starter of the Day' page by Phil Anthony, Head of Maths, Stourport High School:

"What a brilliant website. We have just started to use the 'starter-of-the-day' in our yr9 lessons to try them out before we change from a high school to a secondary school in September. This is one of the best resources on-line we have found. The kids and staff love it. Well done an thank you very much for making my maths lessons more interesting and fun."

Comment recorded on the 5 April 'Starter of the Day' page by Mr Stoner, St George's College of Technology:

"This resource has made a great deal of difference to the standard of starters for all of our lessons. Thank you for being so creative and imaginative."

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"I would like to thank you for the excellent resources which I used every day. My students would often turn up early to tackle the starter of the day as there were stamps for the first 5 finishers. We also had a lot of fun with the fun maths. All in all your resources provoked discussion and the students had a lot of fun."

Comment recorded on the 17 November 'Starter of the Day' page by Amy Thay, Coventry:

"Thank you so much for your wonderful site. I have so much material to use in class and inspire me to try something a little different more often. I am going to show my maths department your website and encourage them to use it too. How lovely that you have compiled such a great resource to help teachers and pupils.
Thanks again"

Comment recorded on the 18 September 'Starter of the Day' page by Mrs. Peacock, Downe House School and Kennet School:

"My year 8's absolutely loved the "Separated Twins" starter. I set it as an optional piece of work for my year 11's over a weekend and one girl came up with 3 independant solutions."

Comment recorded on the 19 November 'Starter of the Day' page by Lesley Sewell, Ysgol Aberconwy, Wales:

"A Maths colleague introduced me to your web site and I love to use it. The questions are so varied I can use them with all of my classes, I even let year 13 have a go at some of them. I like being able to access Starters for the whole month so I can use favourites with classes I see at different times of the week. Thanks."

Number Jigsaws: Online, interactive jigsaw puzzles of grids of numbers.

Prime Numbers Jigsaw: Interactive jigsaw puzzles of different types of grids containing prime numbers.

Online Psychic: Let the psychic read the cards and magically reveal the number you have secretly chosen. What is the mathematics that makes this trick work?

Addle: Arrange the numbers from 1 to 14 in the spaces to make the sums correct. How fast can you do it?

Four Sum: Arrange the given number tiles to make two 2 digit numbers that add up to the given total.

Brainbox: A puzzle requiring the arrangement of numbers on the function machines to link the given input numbers to the correct output.

Stepwise Sums: Arrange the numbers one to nine on the stairs to obtain the given sums.

Tangram Table: Use the pieces of the tangram puzzle to make the basic shapes then complete the table showing which shapes are possible.

Multitude: Arrange the given digits to make three numbers such that the third is the product of the first and the second.

Nine Digits: Arrange the given digits to make three numbers such that two of them add up to the third.

Roman Numerals Jigsaw: An online interactive jigsaw puzzle of a grid of Roman numerals.

Overloaded Fraction: A set of ten puzzles requiring you to arrange the given digits to make an equivalent fraction.

Camp Bosrow: Place the camping items into the plots on the camp site according to the clues given.

Path Puzzle: A great puzzle requiring you to use all of the cards to create a continuous red line from start to finish.

Equatero: Find the expression from a series of guesses and clues.

Prime Labyrinth: Find the path to the centre of the labyrinth by moving along the prime numbers.

Arithmagons: Find the missing numbers in these triangular, self-checking puzzles and discover the wonders of these fascinating structures.

Yohaku Puzzles: Fill in the blank spaces so that the cells give the sum or the product shown in each row and column.

Magic Square Jigsaws: Interactive jigsaw puzzles of four by four magic squares.

Awe-Sum: Arrange the given digits to make six 3-digit numbers that combine in an awesome way.

Largest Product: A drag and drop activity challenging you to arrange the digits to produce the largest possible product.

Area Maze: Use your knowledge of rectangle areas to calculate the missing measurement of these composite diagrams.

Ludicross: Arrange the given numbers on the cross so that the sum of the numbers in both diagonals is the same.

Magic Square: Each row, column and diagonal should produce the same sum.

Triside Totals: Arrange the digits 1 to 9 on the triangle so that the sum of the numbers along each side is equal to the given total.

Not Too Close: The students numbered 1 to 8 should sit on the chairs so that no two consecutively numbered students sit next to each other.

How Many Squares? 2: How many different sets of four dots can be joined to form a square?

T Puzzle: Use the pieces of the T puzzle to fit into the outlines provided. A drag, rotate and drop interactive challenge.

Squorder: The Transum version of the traditional sliding tile puzzle.

Area Wall Puzzles: Divide the grid into rectangular pieces so that the area of each piece is the same as the number it contains.

Without Lifting The Pencil: Can you draw these diagrams without lifting your pencil from the paper? This is an interactive version of the traditional puzzle.

Mixpressions: Arrange the cards to create a valid mathematical statement.

Factor Trees Challenge: Can you determine the unique digits that will complete these factor trees?

Quad Areas: Calculate the areas of all the possible quadrilaterals that can be constructed by joining together dots on this grid.

Frustration: A logic challenge requiring a strategy to update each of the numbers in a grid.

Calculator Words: Turn your calculator upside down to make words out of the answers to these questions.

Nine Nine Nine: Use the digits 1 to 9 to make three 3 digit numbers which add up to 999.

No Partner: Find which numbers in a given list do not combine with other numbers on the list to make a given sum.

Thrice: A challenge to place all nine counters on the grid in such a way that they form exactly 10 straight lines, with each line containing three counters.

Express Percentage Puzzle: Drag the numbers into the percentage statements to make them true.

Centexpression: Arrange the numbers from 1 to 9 to make an expression with a value of 100.

Cubical Net Challenge: Find all the ways of painting the faces of cubes using only two colours.

Maths Crossword: An interactive mathematical crossword for you to do online. Find the missing words from the given clues.

Numskull: Interactive, randomly-generated, number-based logic puzzle designed to develop numeracy skills.

Vector Cops: Help the cops catch the robbers by finding the vectors that will end the chase.

Jugs: Can you make four litres if you only have seven and five litre jugs?

Car Park Puzzle: Can you get your car out of the very crowded car park by moving other cars forwards or backwards?

One Digit Only: Find expressions using only one digit which equal the given targets.

Shunting Puzzles: Move the trams to their indicated parking places in the shunting yard as quickly as possible.

Lemon Law: Change the numbers on the apples so that the number on the lemon is the given total.

Pattern Clues: An interactive activity challenging you to reproduce a pattern of coloured squares according to given clues.

Vowelless: Vowels have been taken out of mathematical words. Can you recognise them?

Partial Pyramids: Calculate the missing numbers in these partly completed pyramid puzzles.

Mine Find: Find where the mines are hidden without stepping on one.

Pentadd Quiz: Find the five numbers which when added or multiplied together in pairs to produce the given sums or products.

Shapes In The Stars: Join up the stars to find the hidden regular polygons.

Clue Sudoku: A different way to complete a Sudoku puzzle with clues available at every stage.

Pick Up Sticks: If you were to pick up the sticks from this pile so that you were always removing the top stick what calculation would you create?

Logic Puzzle: Solve this deduction logic puzzle to find who, where and what.

Plane Numbers: Arrange numbers on the plane shaped grid to produce the given totals

Pu Wiang: A fewest-moves, counter-swapping challenge invented in northern Thailand.

River Crossing: The traditional River Crossing challenge. Can you do it in the smallest number of moves?

Goal Products: Arrange the numbered footballs on the goal posts to make three, 3-number products that are all the same.

Plus: A number arranging puzzle with seven levels of challenge.

Latin Square Puzzles: Arrange the given digits to make a Latin square with the given row and column calculation results.

Xmas Ornaments: A hands on activity requiring students to arrange Christmas ornaments in a square box.

Pyramid Puzzle: Numbers in the bricks are found by adding the two bricks immediately below together. Can you achieve the given target?

Pancake Day: Toss the pancakes until they are neatly stacked in order of size. Find how to do this using the smallest number of moves.

Pentominoes: Arrange the twelve pentominoes in the outline of a rectangle.

Where's Wallaby?: Find the hidden wallaby using the clues revealed at the chosen coordinates.

Cryptographic: Fill in the squares according to the clues given by the string of numbers for each row and column.

Polygon Pieces: Arrange the nine pieces of the puzzle on the grid to make different polygons.

Vocabero: Find the mathematical word from a series of guesses and clues.

All For One: Drag the numbers one to nine onto the outlines of three fractions that combine to make one.

Egg Timers: The classic hourglass puzzle; Time the boiling of an egg using only the two egg timers provided.

Scallywags and Scoundrels: Arrange the scallywags and scoundrels on the chairs so that the numbers of any two sitting next to each other add up to a prime number.

Spinsum: Arrange the numbers on the squares so that the totals along each line of three squares are equal.

Thai Numbers Jigsaw: An online interactive jigsaw puzzle of a grid of Thai number symbols.

Go Figure: Arrange the digits one to nine to make the four calculations correct.

Suko Sujiko: Interactive number-based logic puzzles similar to those featuring in daily newspapers.

Divisive: Arrange the digits one to nine on the spaces provided to make two division calculations containing multiples of three.

Word Search: Find the mathematical words in the grid of letters.

Tantrum: A game, a puzzle and a challenge involving counters being placed at the corners of a square on a grid.

Chinese Numbers Jigsaw: An online interactive jigsaw puzzle of a grid of Chinese number symbols.

Partition Clues: Partition numbers in different ways according to the clues given. The higher levels are quite hard!

Product Square: Arrange the given numbers in a three by three grid to obtain the diagonal, row and column products.

StatGrid Challenge: Arrange the numbers one to nine in a three by three grid to obtain the given means, medians and ranges.

The Miller's Puzzle: This is an interactive version of the puzzle described by Henry Ernest Dudeney in The Canterbury Puzzles

Circumfraction: Quite a challenging number placing puzzle involving fractions.

Tools: In how many different ways can the numbers be arranged to give the same totals?

Satisfy: Place the nine numbers in the table so they obey the row and column headings about the properties of the numbers.

Perfect Magic Square: Arrange the sixteen numbers on the four by four grid so that groups of four numbers in a pattern add up to the same total.

Puzzle Cube Net: A jumbled moving-block puzzle cube is shown as a net. Can you solve it?

Unmagic Square: Like the magic square but all of the totals should be different.

Olympic Rings: Place the digits one to nine in each of the regions created by the Olympic rings so that the sum of the numbers in each ring is the same.

Online Sudoku: An online, interactive version of the popular number placing puzzle.

Triangled Hexagram: Arrange the twelve numbers in the triangles on the hexagram so that the numbers in each line of five triangles add up to the same total.

Zygo: Interactive, randomly-generated, number-based logic puzzle designed to develop numeracy skills.

Code Cracker: Crack the code by replacing the encrypted letters in the given text. There are lots of hints provided about code breaking techniques.

Tower of Hanoi: Move the pieces of the tower from one place to another in the minimum number of moves.

Magic Square Puzzle: Find all of the possible ways of making the magic total from the numbers in this four by four magic square.

Hexagram Star: Arrange the twelve numbers on the hexagram so that the numbers in each line add up to the same total.

Fleur-De-Lis: Click on six fleur-de-lis to leave an even number in each row and column.

Prime Square: Drag the numbers into the red cells so that the sum of the three numbers in each row and each column is a prime number.

Digivide: Arrange the numbers from 1 to 6 in the spaces to make the division calculation correct.

Satisfaction: This is quite a challenging number grouping puzzle requiring a knowledge of prime, square and triangular numbers.

The Broken Chessboard Puzzle: The chessboard has been broken into 13 pieces. Can you put it back together?

Double Treble: Arrange the digits to make three 3 digit numbers such that the second is double the first and the third is three times the first.

Doughnut Dissection: A puzzle to find four different ways of making 900 by multiplying together three different numbers.

Separated Twins: Can you find a 6 digit number containing two each of the digits one to three which obeys the rules given?

One Torch Tunnel: Solve the problem of getting four people through a tunnel with one torch in the minimum amount of time.

Octagram Star: Arrange the sixteen numbers on the octagram so that the numbers in each line add up to the same total.

Unbeknownst: Some picture grid puzzles which can be solved by using simultaneous equations.

Delightfully Divisible: Arrange the digits one to nine to make a number which is divisible in the way described.

Framed Numbers: Figure out which numbers will complete the sentences in the frame correctly. A drag and drop activity.

Scheduling Puzzle: Make a schedule for the 24-hour Darts Marathon which will take into account everyone's requests and keep everyone happy.

Truculent: Can you arrange the seven counters on the grid despite their truculent behaviour?

Power Shift: Arrange the given numbers as bases and indices in the three-term sum to make the target total.

Trafalgar Square: Solve the number puzzles drawn on the pavement of Trafalgar Square in London.

Congruent Parts: Use the colours to dissect the outlines into congruent parts.

Groups of Four: A simplified, mathematical version of the challenge seen in the British TV programme Only Connect. Find the connections between the terms.

Similar Parts: Use the colours to dissect the outlines into similar parts.

Window View: Drag the 20 flowers into the gardens so that 9 flowers are visible from each window of the house.

Scouts in Boats: Arrange a rota for the Scouts to travel in boats so that they are with different people each day.

Dominoes Puzzle: Arrange the dominoes in seven squares. The number of dots along each side of the square must be equal to the number in the middle.