Arrays - ten investigations for Y1 to Y6

Introduce the fascinating world of arrays across school with this resource. This set of PowerPoints helps pupils to move from concrete materials, pictorial depictions to more abstract and varied calculations. As pupils become more adept, they will begin to see patterns, various calculations and connections. You can ask them to prove, explain and convince you about their interpretations of each array.

Great for: developing discussion, explaining ideas, linking concrete to pictorial and bridging on to a more abstract interpretation.

Each PowerPoint presents ten challenges for pupils in Years 1 to Year 6 with increasing depth. Variation is built in with arrays presented as objects, counters and in various orientations.

Each set of arrays has tips, examples and sample answers to exemplify reasoning that might be developed.

Great for staff training and development, mastering the four number operations, fractions and arithmetic.

Requires PowerPoint. Works best with PowerPoint 2016 onwards (uses the Morph transition - but works fine without it).