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Amanda Austin
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Maths and Further Maths teacher | Parent to three boys and a Cockapoo | Lover of origami and maths art |Creator of draustinmaths.com | Resource creator for Dr Frost Learning
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Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who continues to support my site through spreading the word, buying coffees and reporting mistakes. Many more resources to come in 2026, starting with some harder indices practice strips I've made for my Year 9s next week. Enjoy!
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Two strips of practice questions for students studying fractional and negative indices. The first strip involves simplifying algebraic powers and roots and writing them in index form. The second strip involves solving equations with unknown indices.
January 2, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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A belated Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
Some new resources added today:
✨ Generating formulae from words match-up
✨Quadratic formula problem in context practice grid
Find them both at www.draustinmaths.com/algebra
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December 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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🎄🎁⭐For anyone, like me, who happens to be teaching negative and fractional indices in the final week of term, here's a Christmas colouring sheet I've made that you might find useful.
www.draustinmaths.com/powers-and-roots
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Christmas colouring worksheet suitable for KS3/KS4 students involving evaluating fractional and negative indices then colouring each section in the correct colour. Answers to Christmas colouring worksheet suitable for KS3/KS4 students involving evaluating fractional and negative indices then colouring each section in the correct colour.
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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New resources from recent Year 9 lessons added to the website today:
✨Pythagoras pile up puzzle
✨Multi-step trigonometry practice grid
Enjoyed making and working through these! (Hopefully I got the correct answers...)
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Eight multi-step trigonometry problems increasing in difficulty and involving finding missing angles and lengths in right-angled triangles. Suitable for KS3/KS4 students. A puzzle containing lots of right-angled triangles adjacent to each other where missing lengths, areas and perimeter need to be calculated. Suitable for KS3/KS4 students.
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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New resources on congruency added to the website today:
✨Congruent triangles practice strips
✨Congruent triangle proof practice grid
Find them here:
www.draustinmaths.com/geometry
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Maths resource with six questions on proving congruency of triangles within various shapes using either SAS, ASA, SSS or RHS conditions. Suitable for KS3/KS4 students. Maths resource with seven questions on identifying pairs of congruent triangles using either SAS, ASA, SSS or RHS conditions. Suitable for KS3/KS4 students.
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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New A-level Maths and Further Maths resources:
✨Transformations of Trig Graphs Match-Up
✨Elastic Strings and Work Done Fill in the Blanks
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
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Matching activity on transformations of trigonometric graphs suitable for Year 12 AS and A-level Maths students. Fill in the blanks task on work done in extending an elastic string suitable for A-level Further Maths students.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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New Year 12 A-level resources added this week:
✨Binomial Estimation
✨Algebraic Problems with Sine and Cosine Rules
✨Algebraic Problems with Area of a Non Right-Angled Triangle
All can be found at www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
Six practice questions - algebraic problems involving area of a non right-angled triangle. Suitable for AS and A-level students. Six practice questions - algebraic problems involving sine and cosine rules. Suitable for AS and A-level students. Six practice questions on using binomial expansion to estimate values. Suitable for AS and A-level students.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It's been a few weeks since any updates, but here are some new resources from this week's teaching of solving equations:
✨Linear equations with fractional coefficients practice grid
✨Solving quadratics by factorising sort it out
www.draustinmaths.com/algebra
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Maths task suitable for KS4 students - solving quadratic equations by factorising then sorting them according to their solutions. Maths task suitable for KS3/4 students - nine linear equations to solve where the coefficients of the x terms are fractions.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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New percentages resources from Y9 lessons this week:
✨Mixed percentages fill in the blanks
✨Compound and simple interest fill in the blanks
✨Missing interest rates practice strips
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/percentages
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October 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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✨New A-level resources from this week's Year 12 lessons on graphical inequalities, algebraic fractions and algebraic division. The new A-level section is slowly growing! www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
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A-level Maths task on finding the remainder when dividing a polynomial by a linear expression using algebraic long division. A-level Maths task on shading regions in two dimensions divided by linear and quadratic inequalities. A-level Maths tasks on (i) solving linear and quadratic inequalities graphically, and (ii) simplifying algebraic fractions either by splitting the fraction or by factorising.
October 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Friday night update! Some new algebra resources:
✨Expanding Brackets Name the Film
✨Factorising Decode the Joke
✨Factorising with Bracketed Factors Practice Strips
✨Factorising Quadratics Practice Grid
Freely available at www.draustinmaths.com
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October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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In #MathsToday (this week) it's been Maclaurin series with Year 13 FM, quadratics with Year 12, and upper and lower bounds with Year 9. A couple of ✨new✨ practice strips made and added to the site - truncating numbers and using bounds to find a suitable degree of accuracy. #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths
September 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I've made a couple of changes over the summer:
✨A new homepage with a What's New section so you can easily see what's been added recently
✨A bigger focus on KS5 with separate pages for A-level Maths and Further Maths, with lots of new resources, particularly for Further Maths. #ALevelMaths
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August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It's that time of year again - your annual reminder that if you're a Maths teacher and looking for suitable resources for your classes across KS3 to KS5 then do check out www.draustinmaths.com. The site is five years old this week 🎉🎉 and in that time it's amassed over 1000 resources! 1/3
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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#MathsToday Our final topic of the year in Y12 Further Maths is roots of polynomials. I've made a few new resources for teaching this topic - some fill in the blanks and a crack the code which you can find on my website www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
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Crack the Code activity for AS Further Maths Core Pure 1 Roots of Polynomials topic. Fill in the blanks activity for AS Further Maths Core Pure 1 Roots of Polynomials topic - finding roots of quartic equations. Fill in the blanks activity for AS Further Maths Core Pure 1 Roots of Polynomials topic - finding roots of cubic equations. Fill in the blanks activity for AS Further Maths Core Pure 1 Roots of Polynomials topic - finding roots of quadratic equations.
July 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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More A-level Further Maths resources added today:
✨Sums of squares and cubes fill in the blanks
✨Sum of series crack the code
Enjoy! www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
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July 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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With my Year 12 Further Maths class we've moved on to the Core Pure content, starting with sums of series. I've made a few new resources on the topic so far:
✨Evaluating sums of natural numbers match-up
✨Sum of natural numbers fill in the blanks
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June 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Plus, I managed to get my hands on this beautiful card 😍 by @catrionaagg.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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New resources on bar charts ready for Year 7 lessons next week:
✨Constructing bar charts practice grid
✨Reading bar charts match-up
✨Frequency tables and bar charts fill in the blanks
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/statistics
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June 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This half term I'm teaching statistics to both Year 7 and 8, so expect lots of new resources, starting with frequency tables:
✨Constructing frequency tables practice grids
✨Reading information from frequency tables practice grids
Available from www.draustinmaths.com
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Reading information from grouped frequency tables, practice grid of questions suitable for KS3 students. Constructing grouped frequency tables, practice grid of questions suitable for KS3 students. Reading information from frequency tables, practice grid of questions suitable for KS3 students. Constructing frequency tables, practice grid of questions suitable for KS3 students.
June 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Some new practice strips on algebraic fractions ready for Year 9 after half term:
✨More multiplying and dividing algebraic fractions
✨More adding and subtracting algebraic fractions
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/algebraic-fractions
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Practice questions for adding and subtracting algebraic fractions suitable for KS4 students. Practice questions for multiplying and dividing algebraic fractions suitable for KS4 students.
June 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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More guided revision grids from Year 8 revision lessons last week, this time focusing on algebra:
✨Linear sequences
✨Solving linear equations
✨Expanding and factorising with common factors
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/revision
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Expanding and factorising revision questions with worked example, covering expanding single brackets and factorising by taking out common factors. Solving linear equations revision questions with worked example, covering solving two-step equations, equations with brackets and equations with unknowns on both sides. Linear sequences revision questions with worked example, covering finding next terms, finding missing terms and finding the nth term of ascending and descending sequences.
May 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Final lessons on angles with Year 8 this week, focusing on interior and exterior angles of regular polygons. Help yourself to:
✨Interior angles of regular polygons practice strips
✨Exterior angles of regular polygons practice strips
www.draustinmaths.com/angles-and-polygons
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Practice questions focused on finding interior angles in regular polygons, including finding the sum of the interior angles, finding the size of one interior angles, and finding the number of sides given the sum of the interior angles. Practice questions on exterior angles in regular polygons. Includes questions on finding the size of one exterior angle, finding the interior angle given the exterior angle, and finding the number of sides given the exterior angle.
May 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I made some guided revision grids for my Year 8s to revise for their summer exam while I was out on a trip. They seemed to go down well, so I might make some more for them! They could be of use in the run up to exams...
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Guided revision grid for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with mixed numbers. Each contains a worked example and three practice questions. Guided revision grid for prime factors and finding highest common factors and lowest common multiple. Each contains a worked example and three practice questions. Guided revision grid for different types of ratio and proportion questions. Each contains a worked example and three practice questions. Guided revision grid for calculating percentages, increase and decrease, and percentage change using a calculator. Each contains a worked example and three practice questions.
May 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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New resources from Year 8 angles lessons this week:
✨Angles in triangles practice grid
✨Angles in triangles and quadrilaterals practice grid
Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/geometry
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Twelve questions for maths students to find missing angles in triangles, including equilateral and isosceles triangles. Increasing in difficulty. Twelve questions for maths students to find missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals (no special quadrilaterals). Increasing in difficulty.
May 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM