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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
This Easter themed resource will give your class loads of practise with number bonds to 10 using the bar model method. It’s a non-prep resource which contains three levels of differentiation.
Diff. 1: Complete the bar models by filling in the missing number.
**Diff. 2: **Complete the bar models by filling in one or two of the missing numbers + a word problem challenge.
**Diff. 3: **Complete the bar models filling in one or two of the missing numbers + two word problem challenges.
B&W copies are included with this resource.
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A fun Easter maths activity which consists of 24 differentiated maths puzzles that make Easter themed shapes where children must work out the answers to questions to match the pieces together. This is a perfect activity for fun revision lessons as you are winding down for the holidays!
There are four puzzles for each age group that are differentiated 2 ways (8 puzzles per age group in total), which cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
This Bundle contains the following products:
- Easter Maths Puzzles: Grades 1 – 2
- Easter Maths Puzzles: Grades 3 – 4
- Easter Maths Puzzles: Grades 5 - 6
Contents for each pack:
- Addition puzzle X 2
- Subtraction puzzle X2
- Division puzzle X 2
- Multiplication puzzle X 2
Although each puzzle is differentiated, you can also change the level of challenge by asking the children to work out the answers in their head or by allowing them to write down their workings out.
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This is a great physical outdoor math investigation that looks at measuring, averages, and division. For this activity students will measure out a running course (20 meters works well) and see how fast they can run the length of it.
They can have three or four attempts before working out the average of their times. Once they’ve figured out their average they can then use the formulas to work out how was they were running in meters per second and kilometers per second.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation as well as a challenge question extension sheet for those early finishers.
Equipment needed:
Meter stick / measuring wheel
Stop watch - Calculator (depending on the level of challenge you want to provide)
Resource sheets
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This activity gets your students looking at fact families through the very popular bar model. This pack contains 10 differentiated sheets where they must use the halloween themed bar model to help them complete the blank boxes to make the fact family by finding the appropriate additions and subtractions. The sheets contains bonds to 20, 30, 50 and 100 with the bonds both complete and incomplete.
It’s perfect for halloween as a starter, filler or main lesson!
The bar model is a great visual way for students to visualise the problem.
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These inverse operation challenge cards will give your students loads of practice using the inverse operation to figure out a variety of word problems (using multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division). You can use these task cards in a variety of ways from placing them randomly around your outdoor space and letting students find them to using them as extension or exit cards.
This pack contains 18 task cards with three levels of differentiation.
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This activity will get students sorting leaves and looking at different percentages as well as getting them to convert between percentages, decimals, and fractions.
**Teaching Structure:
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Before this activity students need to have an input on working out fractions and converting them to percentages and decimals.
Take students outside and ask them to collect the specified number of leaves (ability dependent).
Get them to complete the table by sorting out the leaves into certain groups before working out the fraction, percent, and decimal.
This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation.
Diff.1: Students will work out the percentage after collecting 10 leaves and sorting them into groups.
Diff. 2: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 10 leaves and sorting them into groups.
Diff. 3: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 20 leaves and sorting them into groups.
Diff. 4: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 15 leaves and sorting them into groups.
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This activity is a great lesson to do before our ‘simple addition’ task cards as it’s slightly more adult led. Students will look at dividing a group of sticks into equal groups and seeing if there are any left over. It’s a great way to introduce multiplication and division to your students in a very visual and practical way.
Teaching directions:
Give your students an amount of time (1-2 minutes works well) to collect as many sticks as they can.
Come back together with their sticks and get them to work through the differentiated worksheets.
You can either let students complete the worksheet individually / in small groups or go through the worksheet as a group or class together.
As you go through the sheet, try to introduce them to vocabulary such as ‘divide, division, share, remainder, etc.
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This is a fun and practical activity for continuing patterns that’ll get your students identifying and continuing patterns without them even realizing they’re learning! These activity sheets are great for the main lesson, filler, or extension activities.
They will roll a dice and complete the matching patterns on the activity sheet until all number patterns are complete.
You can even add a level of competition by seeing how quickly they can complete the game.
This resource contains 12 differentiated activity sheets for grades 1 - 5.
Check out our other Roll and Multiply Bundle for times tables 2 - 12:
Roll & Multiply Bundle
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise mental multiplication for tables 2 - 10 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their multiplications. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
2 - 10 Times table cards
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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Building a bug hotel is great fun for all ages groups, however this pack will encourage students to look more carefully at the different insects their hotel is attracting and the habitats they thrive in.
For this project they’ll design a hotel and observe the changes over time.
It is a great cross-curricular project if you are looking at data handling, habitats, living things, and even engineering.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Instructions
Design Sheets
Results Table (before)
Bar Graph (before)
Results Table (after / during)
Bar Graph (after)
Conclusion Questions
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with and without carrying without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
Playing cards with carrying
Playing cards without carrying
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with decimals without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
Playing cards with carrying
Playing cards without carrying
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Column Subtraction With and Without Carrying
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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Board games are a fun way for your students to practice different Mathematica skills. Perfect for home learning, filler activities, or as the main lesson. They’ll be having so much fun they don’t even realize they’re learning!
This growing bundle is packed full with board games for the following topics:
Addition With + Without Carrying
Addition With Decimals
Column Subtraction With + Without Carrying
Column Subtraction With Decimals
Elapsed Time Problems
Mental Multiplication (2 - 10 times tables)
Multiplying By 10, 100, and 1000
We are building this recourse with more boards games so buy it now and receive the new games when they’re added for free.
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These differentiated task cards are perfect for your students to get loads of practice at working out missing angles for 3, 4 and 5 sided shapes as well as other missing angles as part of your shape, space, and measure topic.
This pack contains 20 differentiated cards along with an answer sheet for students to fill in as well as an answer key.
These cards can be used in loads of different ways. We love to stick them up around our outdoor space and get the students to hunt them out before solving the missing angles.
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These cycling records are perfect to keep track of your cycling activity while looking at some mathematics skills such as addition and averages.
This pack contains 5 levels of differentiation to suite ages from 4 - 12 (or older!).
**Diff. 1: **Students will record the day and draw a picture for each of their rides.
Diff. 2: Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles (great for simple addition practice). Two design options available.
**Diff. 3: ** Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles at the end of each ride (great for simple addition).
Diff. 4: Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles at the end of each ride. Once all of their rides are complete they will answer some questions involving subtraction, averages, and division.
Diff. 5: Students will record the day, miles, total miles and time taken before working out their average speed for each ride. Once all of their rides are complete they will answer questions involving subtraction, averages, and division.
This record is perfect for national cycle weeks but is also a great way to teach mathematical skills in real world situations.
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The tree age investigation is a great activity if you’re focusing on perimeter, measuring, or data handling. Your class will use a simple formula to figure out the rough age of the trees around your outdoor space, completing some fun challenges, or collecting data to input into graphs.
This resource pack contains two different activities you could do when looking at the ages of trees.
Challenge questions – For this activity your class will figure out the age of trees while completing the different challenges on the sheet.
Data handling – Students will collect data by identifying trees and calculating their age. They will then use this data to complete bar graphs and answer some questions about their findings. Both of these activities work best in pairs as it makes it easier to measure the diameter of trees.
Resources needed:
Flexible tape measure
Activity pack sheets
Calculator
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This part-whole bar model subtraction worksheet pack is great to give your students loads of practice at using the bar model method to solve subtraction word problems.
The bar model is great to help children visualize and solve mathematical problems.
This pack contains 20 differentiated worksheets from numbers 1 - 20.
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This part-whole bar model subtraction worksheet pack is great to give your students loads of practice at using the bar model method to solve subtraction word problems.
The bar model is great to help children visualize and solve mathematical problems.
This pack contains 22 worksheets with an increasing level of challenge throughout.
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Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students first look at how they can carry out this investigation, completing an investigation plan.
After the seeds are planted they’ll measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table. As part of the sheet they’ll need to work out differences in heights. We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate.
How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available. It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions.
It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities.
Suggested Plants:
Tomato
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Bush Beans
Green Onions
Summer Squash
Beets
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Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students will measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table as well as drawing a picture of the plants.
We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate. How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available.
It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions.
It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities.
Suggested Plants:
Tomato
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Bush Beans
Green Onions
Summer Squash
Beets
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