Position, direction and movement, anti-clockwise, clockwise, fractions of turns
*Review clockwise and anti-clockwise turns by means of animated images of clocks and 11 other fun animated revolving images.
*Learn quarter, two-quarter/half, three-quarters and four-quarters/whole fractions of a circle
*simple following instruction game to review clockwise and anti-clockwise quarter, half, three-quarter and whole turns prior to or after watching a birds-eye animated image of a man standing on a divided circle making animated turns.
*In pairs practice turning a pencil clockwise and anti-clockwise quarter, half, three-quarter and whole turns prior to or after viewing an example.
PowerPoint whole-class teaching resource
Two page worksheet (in word & PDF format) using the same pencil turns image to consolidate learning.
Made for my grade 3 class who are just starting to formally learn their times-tables.
Highly visual, interactive slides with arrays of dots, hundred square, step counting, various sum flashcards, animated finger trick illustration, and slides showing some of the patterns for the nines times table.
PowerPoint activity/presentation progressing in this slide order:
Counting in steps of nine up to 216 from 0.
100 square count in steps of nine with pattern being revealed (1.5 seconds each step).
9 times table in order with array
9 times table in order with no array
9 times table out of order with no array - 12 questions
9 times table out of order with no array - 24 questions
9 times table - see answer - give sum, out of order, no array, 12 questions
9 times table in order with finger trick
Animated slide that shows that the digits of the answers to nines times table sums always add upto 9.
Animated slide that shows that the tens digit goes up by one, and the ones digit goes down by one when the nines times table is recited in order.
With PDF to support 8) and 9) above.
Subject Verb Agreement PowerPoint with 5 worksheets about the basic rules of subject-verb agreements.
Subject Verb Agreement PowerPoint progression:
1)Starts by reviewing what the subject and verb of a sentence is.
2)Then an example slide of the grammar rule.
3)Main part of the PowerPoint provides example sentences with various different subjects and students choose the correct form of the verb, on a click the correct form of the verb floats into place.
(rule is removed after a few slides, but then reappears so that you can reinforce [or correct] the rule).
Fun story style to keep students engaged.
4)Ends with a simple task instructing students to write examples for different subjects and pronouns.
I use it with a ESL after-school class and mini-whiteboards for pairs of students to make it into a quiz game format.
Also included are 5 carefully designed, story-style, fun worksheets which provide reinforcement and practice for the rule.
1 of the worksheets repeats the examples used in the PowerPoint.
Homonyms, Homographs & Heteronyms PowerPoint & Crossword.
Homograph PowerPoint with simple clues and clear (labeled for reuse) clip-art.
Each slide is animated: 1st click written clues are presented, 2nd click clip-art is shown, 3rd click answer is revealed - I use it with mini-whiteboards in a quiz game format.
25 common homographs presented (fit, ring, saw, gum, letters, light, train, table, club, watch, calf, coach, jam, dear, wave, cross, bark, park, orange, bat, right, tear, bow, wind, polish) ( - please see a screen shot of 9 of the slides)
Also comes with a crossword using 17 of the 25 homographs to use as a homework or reinforcement activity.
Differentiated crossword - one with clues and word box of spellings, one with only clues.
I use it with ESL grade 2-5 students in an after school club and with my grade 3 (8 & 9 year olds) when we study this in grammar, but would be enjoyed by grades 2,3,4 and 5)
An introduction of the ‘think multiplication strategy’ to help with division.
An animated, interactive PowerPoint presentation with arrays of dots to help students visualize related multiplication and division facts.
A partially covered array showing only the number of rows in an array, but not the number of dots in each row is shown, along with a matching fact statement (e.g. “Altogether there are 40 dots”)
Students are encouraged to give the multiplication sentence AND related division sentence using the information shown (total number of dots & number of rows/groups) that helps work out the array proportions. e.g. 5 x ? = 40 and 40 ÷ 5= ?. 14 example arrays.
Includes 3 level differentiated division / multiplication worksheet in same style, plus colour matching facts for all tables x2-x10
Grid Method / Place Value PowerPoint uses arrays and smiley faces to show the mental multiplication strategy of using place value and knowledge of multiplication to work out a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number - with exchange (such as 8 x 35, 9 x 33 etc.).
No text to read or get distracted by.
12 examples which build from 4 x 18 & 3 x 22 on the first two slides up to 9 x 33 & 8 x 83 on the last two slides.
All slides follow the same animations:
*Array and multiplication problem is shown.
Confused smiley bounces in (teacher explains that if you don’t know your 83 times table you’re going to be confused)
*array changes to show place value calculations.
*Confused face is replaced by a happy face as he can now do the multiplication problem.
12 examples clearly help grade 3,4 or 5 students master and understand this important skill.
With matching differentiate worksheets for multiplying 2-digit number by a 1-digit number.
A PowerPoint which introduces the ‘Doubling-and-Halving Strategy for Multiplication’.
This PowerPoint uses an array to show the multiplication strategy of doubling one factor and halving the other factor to help to work out some multiplication problems. Doubling and halving is therefore related to thinking that ‘restructures’ an array to make it more manageable to multiply (e.g. 3 × 18 = ___ can be rewritten as 6 × 9 = ___).
Very visual resource which helps students see that the total number of circles in an array (the product) stays the same when an array is cut and rearranged.
No text: so recommend that the teacher walks through the first couple of example slides and then students verbally explain the following examples to their peers.
Order of animations:
Tricky array and sum is shown.
Confused smiley bounces in. (explain here that if you don’t know your 15 times table etc. this could be hard)
Scissors appear and cut the array - array restructures into simpler array (double of one factor/half of the other)
New corresponding sum appears - click & answer is shown
Array restructures to first formation and tricky sum is shown again
As the total number of circles has remained the same throughout the sequence the answer should be obvious :-)
I use it alongside other strategies so that it is presented as an option for mental computation involving multiplication.
Made for my year 3 class who are just starting to formally learn their times-tables.
Highly visual, interactive slides with arrays of dots, hundred squares, step counting, and various sum flashcards;
PowerPoint activity/presentation progressing in this slide order:
Counting in steps of three up to 102 from 0.
Repeated addition/counting up in 3s to 190 on click
Repeated addition/counting up in 3s to 190 automatic timed steps
100 square count in steps of three with pattern being revealed (2 secs each step).
100 square count in steps of three with pattern being revealed (1 sec each step).
3 times table with array in order
3 times table in order no array
3 times table out of order with array
3 times table out of order no array
3 times table, out of order, no array x24 questions
3 times table - see answer - give sum, out of order with array
3 times table - see answer - give sum, out of order no array
Includes differentiated worksheets.
4 times multiplication with double-double strategy. To help learn four times table.
Highly visual, interactive slides with arrays of dots, hundred squares, input-output machine, step counting, and various sum flashcards.
PowerPoint activity/presentation progressing in this slide order:
Counting in steps of four up to 100 from 0.
100 square count in steps of four with pattern being revealed (3 secs each step).
100 square count in steps of four with pattern being revealed (2 sec each step).
100 square count in steps of four with pattern being revealed (1 sec each step).
Double Double Machine (with reinforcemnt of relationship x4)
4 times table in order with array
4 times table in order with no array
4 times table out of order with array
4 times table out of order with array (24 questions)
4 times table - see answer - give sum, out of order, no array, 24 questions
Includes differentiated double-double worksheets
Eight Times Table trick of double-double-double.
PowerPoint with an animation showing the double-double-double strategy to help students work out answers when multiplying by 8.
Starts with some easier multiplications (1x8, 2x8, 5x8, 3x8),
Then covers all the x8 facts upto x12,
Then has some trickier numbers to multiply (two digit and three digits)
Includes 7 matching style differentiated worksheets
Also see my Multiplication Strategies pack which includes this trick and other common multiplication strategies;
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mental-multiplication-strategies-11756501
Made for my grade 3 class who are just starting to formally learn their times-tables.
Very visual resource using arrays with dots, hundred charts, step counting and various sum flashcards.
PowerPoint activity/presentation progressing in this slide order:
Counting in steps of two up to 120 from 0.
Count to 24 in steps of 2 with array being built.
100 square count in steps of two with pattern being revealed (2 sec each step).
100 square count in steps of two with pattern being revealed (1 sec each step).
Double the number with numbers in random order (doubling function in-out machine design).
2 times table with sum and array in order.
2 times table with sum and array turnaround in order.
2 times table with sum but no array
2 times table with sum and array out of order.
Answer shown and student to give sum.
Also included are the x0 and x1 timetables. Often overlooked when teaching multiplication, but essential to grasping a true understanding.
First slide is ‘times zero’ times table and shows a fixed golden zero with sum twisting in and out.
Emphasizing the rule that;
“When you multiply a number by zero, the answer is always zero”
Second slide is ‘times one’ times table and shows the multiplicand (the number being multiplied) emerging from itself and sliding over to the product (the answer)
Emphasizing the rule that;
“Any Number Times One is that Number / 1 x anything = itself”
Input-Output Tables to help relate multiplication and division.
PowerPoint focuses on building a connection between multiplication and division operations using an active model to reinforce the connection between the two operations.
Visual of the relationship between division and multiplication using input and output tables to show that division is sharing and multiplication is combining.
The PowerPoint is designed to encourage students to combine equal groups of clipart images to make a total (multiplication), as well as share a collection to form equal groups (division).
The PowerPoint uses a variety of public domain clipart images to act out a multiplication or division problems to encourage students to determine the total and reverse the action to determine the quotient and vice versa. Your students can make up little stories to help them understand each operation.
x3/÷3 & x4/÷4 Facts used (28 slides).
Includes differentiated worksheets for 3’s and 4’s facts
Gold, silver and bronze certificates for students who have learnt their multiplication tables to different levels.
Also includes the reverse side showing test results (you just need to delete ticks corresponding to results to match the front side)
Comes with a checklist / test sheet.
Levels are;
BRONZE
For being able to say a complete multiplication table in order.
e.g. "One times two is two. Two times two is four etc."
SILVER
For being able to give the product of the numbers multiplied together, out of order.
e.g. Q: “What is six x two?", "What is twelve x two?" etc.
GOLD
For giving facts when presented with the product only
e.g. “24?” “12 x 2”
Please rate and comment if you find them useful.
Beginner division speed math worksheets introducing/reinforcing division as being the inverse of multiplication - "Think multiplication" (to do division)
Files - 'speed division inverse of multiplication_worksheet1' & 2 present multiplication turnaround facts followed by matching inverse division facts in groups of 4.
e.g.
5 x 2 =
2 x 5 =
10 ÷ 2 =
10 ÷ 5 =
File - 'speed division inverse of multiplication_using multi to divide_missing multiplier2_4_6_8_9'
Present only one multiplication followed it's inverse division, in columns of facts for 2, 4, 6, 8, and 9 times tables:
e.g.
2s Facts
2 x ___ = 18
18 ÷ 2 =
2 x ___ = 14
14 ÷ 2 =
Other worksheet presents mixed problems with the multiplication having the missing multiplier
e.g
2 x ___ = 18
18 ÷ 2 =
Students are therefore encouraged to 'think multiplication' when doing division.
Visual introduction to square number patterns . Useful as a visual introduction to exploring square numbers and/or as a lesson starter.
A square is slowly built by adding the next odd number of squares to the first to make a bigger square (number).
3 animated slides (don't bore your students too much, just use 1 a lesson)
*Slide 1 uses a growing pattern of odd numbers in an addition sentence (underneath the square) to create square numbers.
*Slide 2 uses the above plus the matching multiplication sentence.
*Slide 3 uses the visual and only the multiplication sentence.
I like to show slide 1 with just the addition sentence first off and impress my students with my quick fire maths skills ;-) "1+3+5+7+11+13+15+17+19+21+23 = 135". The following day I'll teach them the trick of multiplication. A few of my higher ability will be able to answer the addition sentences on their own at the end of a lesson.
You'll need a bit of patience as the squares reveal themselves.
Hope students around the world enjoy it (?) and that it makes multiplication that little more understandable.
Please rate and comment politely, all my resources are shared freely.
Simple against the clock sorting game for students to practice times tables.
Print onto card and get students to cut them out.
To play the game:
1) Turn cards upside down and mix them around
2) Begin turning them over and sorting them into the correct order when the stopwatch starts.
3) Record your time for each day of the week.
4) Keep cards in an envelope ready to play the following day.
I print one set for each pair of students in my class and they play as a teams against the other students in the class. (cooperative, social constructivist learning etc.) But can also be used as an individual fast finisher game.
Provided are cards for the 4 times table, as that is what my class are learning this week, but very easy to edit for any times table.
Provided three versions:
one with the 'x symbol, multiplicand. & = symbol' on one card (least number of pieces) [this version also includes 4 wrong answers to make it a little more difficult] ,
one with 2 digit product on one card (harder),
and one with each digit on separate cards (hardest, and also easiest for them to lose cards of ;-))
Posters for students to set class/school goals, with a space below each for them to list the steps they will need to take to achieve their goals.
4 versions:
3 pdf files with sassoon font: one with lines, one with numbers, and one with numbers and only 2 callout bubbles.
1 word doc with comic sans.
I will edit the documents and replace 'my' with the name of the student and print one off for each child in my class. Plus one for myself, so that I can set some personal (teaching) goals for myself.
I will also print out a large 'to achieve by xx/xx/xxxx' so that the goals are time sensitive and display this alongside the student's posters.
Also included some display headings, quotes, and stars to make a classroom display.
(star clipart is 'for reuse from clipartpanda.com)
Most common suffix (-ful, -est, -ing, -less, -ly, -er) and prefix (re-, un-, dis-, mis-, pre-) investigation worksheets.
Each suffix and prefix meaning is given, plus an example.
Can be differentiated in numerous ways:
1) Students think of their own example of words with common prefixes and suffixes. [page 1 & page 2]
2) Students can sort the provided examples. [page 3] and add some of their own
3) Students can decide which prefix or suffix works with the given base words and then add them to the table in the appropriate place. [page 4] (answers will vary)
You may choose to do just suffixes or prefixes in one lesson or print back to back and do it all at once.
I always like to get students to work in pairs and help each other complete worksheets and also add other examples.
Uploaded a PDF in a Sasson Font & an editable word doc. in comic sans.
Hope students around the world enjoy them. Please rate and comment, all my resources are shared freely.
A fun introductory presentation activity about abbreviations.
Students can use mini-whiteboards (or scrap paper to make it into a quiz game) - they have to work out the common abbreviations of words or phrases (many they will know already, others they may have to work out)
Also thrown in a few challenge questions (How many metres in 1km? etc.)
Comes with an accompanying worksheet:
Full words or phrases at the bottom of the page have to be used to match the abbreviations at the top (and/or vice versa)
PowerPoint with 12 different animal skulls: students to decide if the animal was a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore by looking closely at the animals teeth.
Includes lesson objectives
*To know the names and jobs of each of the teeth.
*To know why we need teeth.
*To understand what a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore are and how this effects the shape of teeth.
with some small group work activities.
Exciting introductory activity.
Please rate and comment if you use it. Enjoy!