Mental Maths Daily Warm Up - Free Sample

What’s the best way to improve your students’ mental maths skills? … Practice! Use these sets of ten questions every day to improve key mental maths skills.

Read the ten questions to your class, followed by the answers. Students mark their own or each others - the whole process is done within minutes.

“We start every maths lesson with these ten quick questions, not only is this brilliant practice, but it acts as a great settler - silent students within seconds of the lesson starting!”

This sample includes six sets of questions at the ‘easier’ and ‘trickier’ level. A free tracker grid is also included (trimmed, fits nicely stuck in the back cover of an exercise book).

Complete sets for the whole year available here: easier and trickier

At the ‘easier’ level, the skills covered are:
Timestables (up to 10 x 10)
Multipliying/dividing by 10 and 100
Number bonds to 100
Adding/subtracting with negatives
Using the order of operations
Timestables (up to 15 x 15)

At the ‘trickier’ level, the skills covered are:
Timestables (up to 10 x 10)
Multipliying/dividing by 10 and 100
Number bonds to 100
Percentages/fractions of an amount
Common powers and roots
Adding/subtracting with negatives
Using the order of operations
Timestables (up to 15 x 15)