I am a KS2 teacher, Primary Maths Specialist, mum of two and music lover! Lots of maths resources with a sprinkling of English and music planning and display resources. Thank you for looking at my resources; I hope that they help you in some small way to take back the weekend!
I am a KS2 teacher, Primary Maths Specialist, mum of two and music lover! Lots of maths resources with a sprinkling of English and music planning and display resources. Thank you for looking at my resources; I hope that they help you in some small way to take back the weekend!
A mixture of geometry starter and revision activities that I have used with my Y6 pupils over the years. Ideal for easy starter activities, mental maths lessons, morning task, early finishers’ task, or even homework. I have also used some of the activities for focus groups, baseline assessments and quick revision to keep this area of maths fresh in pupils’ minds.
There are 26 activities that cover the following mathematical ideas:
- Properties of 2D shapes: symmetry, angles, vertices etc.
- Area of compound shapes.
- Surface area of 3D shapes.
- Perimeter.
- Finding missing angles.
- Co-ordinates.
There is a mixture of closed-questions, as open-ended investigations and mysteries to develop pupils’ ability to reason and make rich links between different areas of mathematics. There are also several ‘Always, sometimes, never?’ investigations, which can also be found on my ‘Always, sometimes, never?’ PowerPoint.
Simple ready to go worksheet with accompanying PowerPoint- originally used in Year 6. Provides pupils with the opportunity to practise calculating the area of compound shapes. The PowerPoint is really simple with just the same questions as the sheet, but it allows you to display on the interactive whiteboard for the purpose of whole class marking, supporting groups and modelling and discussing strategies.
A ready to go worksheet and PowerPoint of problem solving questions that require pupils to convert between litres and millilitres, kilograms and grams and metres and centimetres. I have also put the questions on to a simple PowerPoint so that you can do a bit of whole class marking, model solving a problem, discuss the different strategies used by pupils or gather a group who are struggling together and work through as a team (annotating on the interactive white board as you go).
All four number operations are covered and some of the questions are two step problems. I used this with a Year 4 class, but it could be used across Key Stage 2 for different groups of pupils. For example, I have used this activity in Year 6 as a quick revision activity and a baseline assessment.
Comes complete with teacher answer sheet and answers on the PowerPoint are below each slide in the notes section. As well as PDF, the resource is provided in Word format so that it can be edited to suit your pupils.
All the starter or morning task activities that you will need for a year! Covering all of the areas of maths, these PowerPoints have an array of activities that have been tried and tested with Year 6 pupils but would work throughout Upper KS2 and even KS3. There are quick-quizzes and closed questions - perfect for baselines and revision, but also loads of open-ended investigations and mysteries that will encourage pupils to reason and cerate rich links between different areas of mathematics (one of the founding principles of the new National Curriculum). Really quick and easy to use and enjoyable for teacher and pupils. Ideal for starter activities, morning task, extensions, tasks for early finishers, homework, baseline assessments and group work.
Ready to go activities that I have used throughout the year with my Y6 pupils and collated onto one power-point. Ideal for starter activities, morning-task, early finishers’ task, mental maths sessions, revision, homework or even display.
The resource is comprised of 16 activities and the mathematical ideas covered include:
- Averages: mean, mode, median and range.
- Interpreting graphs, tables and pie-charts.
- Probability.
I have also included some pictures that may be helpful if you would like to take the mean exploration further.
I have found these particularly useful for my Y6 pupils to keep refreshing them on this area of maths, but I think that they could also be used in Y5. There is a mixture of closed-questions, open-ended investigations and mysteries.
I am passionate about developing pupils ability to reason mathematically and - as the current National Curriculum states - make rich connections across mathematical ideas.
The bundle features:
PowerPoint that can be used for staff CPD to encourage them to create opportunities to develop reasoning in their maths lessons.
PowerPoint of ‘Always, sometime, never?’ investigations. Where children have to reason and justify their decisions with evidence.
PowerPoint of ready-to-go reasoning activities. These are all open-ended activities that have a low entry and high ceiling - suitable for across KS2, but especially useful in Years 5 & 6.
A ready-to-go quick reasoning activity to use on a maths display or in the staffroom.
There are hours worth of activities here that prioritise reasoning but will touch on all areas of the mathematics curriculum.
This is a maths trail that I devised for my pupils and involves them exploring the school grounds. It consists of two A4 pages of questions that can be really easily adjusted to suit your school grounds and the age/ability of your pupils. A great way for pupils to apply their mathematical skills and knowledge in context. The questions touch on many areas of maths including: percentages, measures (length), area, difference, calculation, time, shape, symmetry, reasoning and perimeter. I used this as a general baseline assessment at the start of the year and got lots of data to work with - not only from marking their work, but also from observing how confident they were with maths and listening to the things they were saying whilst going around the grounds. The resource is provided in WORD format as well as PDF so that you can adjust to suit your school grounds or the ability of your pupils if necessary.
Ideas for use:
Moving Up Day: get to know the personalities and mathematical abilities of your new class before September.
End of year fun outdoor activity - no prep but can stretch out for a whole afternoon!
Small guided group activity or assessment opportunity.
Make it a team building exercise by using mixed ability groups and introducing a prize for the first team back with the answers!
Baseline assessment at the start of a new school year.
Activity to be left with a supply teacher or a group of pupils who are staying behind from a school trip/residential.
Ready-to-go PowerPoint with 12 different activities based on the area of measures. These are activities that I have used with my class of Y6 pupils and I have collated them onto one PowerPoint for ease. Really helpful as starter activities, homework, revision, mental maths lessons, morning task and early finishers’ task. Some of the activities could also be used as a main lesson activity whilst you are working with a guided group as there are quite a few questions on some of the slides.
The mathematical ideas covered include:
- Converting units (mass, length and capacity).
- Worded problems involving measure.
- Time.
- Imperial measures.
This is a set of 37 ready-to -go activities based on fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion that should save you lots of time.
I have collated these from lessons that I have taught throughout the years - so they are all tried and tested with Y6 (and some Y4 pupils). Ideal for starter activities, morning task, homework, extending pupils, tasks for early finishers, mental maths lessons, revision and baseline assessments.
I have described them as starter activities, but you will perhaps find that many of the activities can keep pupils busy for a whole lesson.
The mathematical ideas covered include:
- Calculating % of amounts.
- Equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Calculating fractions of amounts.
- Solving worded problems involving fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion.
Activities include closed-questions, quick- quizzes, open-ended investigations, ‘Always, sometimes, never?’, scaling up recipes and worded problems.
I really hope that you find this resource useful.
A ready to go resource with six activities based on algebra. Perfect for starter activities, homework, extension task for early finishers or morning task. Although I have labelled this as a starter, several of the activities could easily keep pupils busy for a whole lesson - particularly finding the 10th, 100th and nth term of sequences and the ‘Always, sometimes never’ activity based on four different expressions.
Mathematical ideas covered include substituting numbers into algebraic expressions and finding the nth term of sequences.
Some of the activities are closed questions, but most require pupils to investigate and use the higher level skills of reasoning and justification. I used this activities with my Year 6 pupils as various points of the year and have collated them on one PowerPoint for ease. I would say they are suitable for able Y6s and could also be used in Key Stage 3.