Find included a SATs questions PowerPoint, going over all the place value questions. Suitable for year six.
Elevate your Year 6 students’ SATs preparation with my SATs Questions PowerPoint on Place Value. This comprehensive presentation is expertly designed to cover all aspects of place value questions, as featured in past SATs exams. It’s an essential tool for educators aiming to thoroughly prepare their students for the rigorous demands of the SATs.
The PowerPoint slides delve into each component of place value, from understanding the significance of each digit’s position to more complex concepts like decimal places and the effects of multiplying or dividing by 10, 100, and 1000. By reviewing actual SATs questions, students will gain familiarity with the exam format and develop confidence in their abilities to tackle similar questions during their assessments.
Introduce your Year 1 students to the joys of mathematics this autumn with our Scaffolded Autumn Tests for Arithmetic. Tailored to support young learners as they begin their mathematical journey, these tests are designed to accommodate every child’s needs with three distinct levels of difficulty: low ability (LA), medium ability (MA), and high ability (HA).
Key Features:
Scaffolded Approach: Each test is carefully structured to build confidence and ensure comprehensive understanding, allowing students to progress at their own pace.
Curriculum-Aligned: Perfectly aligned with the Year 1 arithmetic curriculum, ensuring all core concepts are covered.
Engaging Content: The tests are crafted not only to assess but also to engage, with visually appealing formats that encourage young learners to enjoy their arithmetic practice.
These tests are an excellent tool for assessing the early arithmetic skills of Year 1 students, providing valuable insights into their understanding and readiness for the year ahead. Equip your students with the skills they need to succeed and develop a lasting love for mathematics!
Find included a hilarious scaffolded SATs negative numbers PowerPoint (meme edition!) This scaffolds the questions with funny meme images, suitable for primary school, year six. It will cover all key negative number concepts that typically appear in SATs, scaffolded with humor and memes to keep students engaged. Each day, the class will aim to get through a set of negative number questions in preparation for the SATs. Also includes detailed answers and working out at the end of the PowerPoint so that you can go through it as a class.
Find included a cut and match 2D shapes activity, suitable for both KS1/KS2. Also includes sheet of the different shapes with names attached and famous mathematicians to do with shape.
Find included a dots and boxes maths starter, suitable for KS2.
INSTRUCTIONS: players take turns to draw lines between two adjacent dots. The person who draws a fourth and final line to create a 1 x 1 square wins that square (box). The person with the most boxes wins!
Find included addition and subtraction word problems (HA, YR 6), all real SATs questions from previous years. Great for SATs preparation!
NC: solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
A fun back to school quiz, suitable for primary school.
Instructions:
With students seated at their desks or tables, ask a series of “Would you rather …?” questions, like these. For example, “Would you rather fly like a bird or swim like a dolphin?”
Have students give a thumbs-up for the first option or thumbs-down for the second. Make sure to pause for a few seconds to give students the chance to look around and see how everyone votes.
Find included a hilarious scaffolded place value PowerPoint (meme edition!) This scaffolds the questions with funny meme images, suitable for primary school, year six. It will cover all key place value concepts that typically appear in SATs, scaffolded with humor and memes to keep students engaged. Each day, the class will aim to get through a set of place value questions in preparation for the SATs. Also includes answers as a pdf.
Engage your primary students with the Ladders Maths Game, a fun and educational challenge designed to enhance their number sequencing skills. In this interactive game, the teacher reads out ten random numbers between 0 and 99, one at a time. Students must listen carefully and strategically place each number in the correct order from lowest to highest on their game ladders.
Game Objective:
Winning Condition: Successfully arrange all ten numbers in ascending order.
Losing Condition: Any numbers placed incorrectly result in losing the game.
This game not only sharpens students’ understanding of numerical order but also boosts their attention and quick thinking skills. It’s perfect for making math lessons lively and is a great tool for reinforcing number recognition and sequencing concepts.
Find included the nim maths starter, suitable for primary school.
Instructions:
Nim is a very old game that is usually played with stones or tokens. But it’s also a game that can be played with pen and paper.
Draw 1, 3, 5, and 7 marks (or tokens) in the shape of a pyramid as shown in the illustration.
The objective is to force your opponent to cross out the last remaining mark.
Players alternate turns crossing out as many marks as they wish on each turn. However, they can only cross out marks on one line per turn.
The person who crosses out the last remaining mark loses
Find included a space algebra maths starter, suitable for year six. Included are instructions on how to play the game.
Instructions:
The first player throws two dice
With the two numbers generated, they decide which number will represent ‘A’ and which number will represent ‘B’
Player one picks one of the six equations, using the two numbers generated to represent ‘A’ and ‘B’
Player one works out the answer and covers the correct answer with a counter
Player two does the same
Players take it in turns until one player has positioned three counters in a row and are declared the winner.