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A set of four differentiated mazes for student to colour a path through, counting on in tenths or hundredths (or just ones for SEN). Plus a blank grid for students to design their own mazes.
Year 4 Learning Objectives: count up and down in tenths and hundredths.
Inspired by NCETM guidance (which is attached), this bundle of multiplication resources is superb for moving students through CPA process (concrete, pictorial, abstract), also includes NCETM lesson plan and questions from the `Models and Images`resources. Bundle includes:
Multiplication as an arrray
Multiplications as repeated addition
Multiplication on a number line
Problem solving
This is a fun activity which encourages problem solving and mastery within place value, (plus a little bit of revision with co-ordinates too!) My class loved it.
Learning Objectives for this activity:
Y5 Learning objective - to multiply whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
Y5 Learning objective – to determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1 million.
Y5 Learning objective - to add whole numbers with more than four digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction).
Y4 Learning objective – describe positions on a 2-D grid as co-ordinates.
Two activities for students to practice representations of tenths as fractions, pictures, decimals and in words.
Covers LO:
LO: Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts
Inspired by the Year 5 Mastery documents, these maths trails practice basic addition and subtraction skills. Calculations are presented within parenthesis to begin to expose students to algebraic layouts in Year 5.
Four differentiated trails:
High ability (numbers to 10,000),
Medium ability (numbers into 1000`s),
Lower ability (numbers in the 100`s)
SEN (numbers up to 100)
This was so useful in showing the class a range of different graphs for the same data, and in improving their reasoning ability on what each graph shows. Correct reasoning is modelled in the task and the students then went on create their own, using mastery level reasoning skills.
Superb for sparking discussion.
In both powerpoint (editable) and pdf format
This Talk time discussion activity was inspired by NCETM Mastery documents.
Zippy Onion our class mathematician sparks reasoning and discussion on place value around the Year 4 Learning Objective - Find 1000 more or less than a given number.
I have given four to page for ease of printing.
True or false activity to promote reasoning with rounding.
Suitable for Year 4 and/or a quick revision activity for Year 5
Year 4 LO - To round decimals up to 2 decimal places.
Plot quadrilaterals and then transform the shape, using this game.
Learning Objectives (from New Curriculum) covered are:
LO - classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties.
LO - describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.
LO - describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down.
LO - plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon.
A bundle of 10 Addition and Subtraction activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents. Perfect for lesson starters to encourage discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them, means you always have written evidence of students problem solving and reasoning skills! Presented in easy to photocopy format, with 4 activities to a page.
LO`s included:
LO – To add and subtract 3 digit numbers mentally. (Yr. 3 - Mastery and Mastery with greater depth)
LO - Solve problems including missing number problems, using place value and more complex addition and subtraction. (Yr. 3 – Reasoning & Problem Solving)
LO - Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones; a three-digit number and tens; a three digit number and hundreds. (Yr. 3 – Reasoning & Problem Solving)
This activity combined our History topic of Romans, with our Maths focus of measurement, plus a little bit of shapes and fractions thrown as an assessment of the previous units taught.
Students receive a letter from Emperor Hadrian, with the command to rebuild sections of Hadrian`s Wall. They then worked in differientiated groups for calculate the correct measurements for the wall. Once the correct measurements had been calculated they then used their knowledge of 3-D shapes to build the wall. I have included the activity and instructions in pdf and word format for editing.
My class loved it, but I have to be honest - it took them all morning!
Learning Objectives covered:
Geometry: Property of Shapes:
• Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials.
Measurement:
• Measure, compare, and add lengths (m/cm/mm)
• Continue to measure using the appropriate tools and units, progressing to using a wider range of measures, including comparing and using mixed units and simple equivalents of mixed units (for example, 5m = 500cm).
Fractions:
• Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects.
• Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10
16 activities to help your class count on in tenths, and recognize and use fractions on a number-line.
This includes 15 exercises investigating fractions on a number-line, including some concept cartoons to encourage student reasoning. Plus an additional snap/matching game, matching fractions to number-lines to diagrams.
Inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery documents - Zippy Onion sparks discussion on rounding, students are encouraged to record their reasoning on facts known, also includes a self-assessment grid.
Year 4 objective - To reason on rounding facts known.
I have included four per sheet for ease of photocopying.
3 STEM inspired Place Value activities, which cover the place value objectives from Yr 2 through to Yr 5 and come complete with planning.
The STEM Challenge and Mystery Number Activity use the Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract (CPA) model currently recommended to encourage Greater Depth of understanding of number, as used in Singapore.
Learning Objectives included are:
• Represent numbers using different representations.
• Find 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000 more or less than a given number.
• Recognise the place value of each digit in a 2, 3, 4 or 5- digit number (hundreds, hundreds, tens, and ones).
• Read and write numbers up to 10,000 in numerals and in words.
• Solve problems, including missing number problems and place value.
A second bundle of 10 Place Value activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents. Perfect for lesson starters to encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them, means you always have written evidence of students problem solving and reasoning skills! Presented in easy to photocopy format, with 4 activities to a page.
LO`s included:
(Yr. 3 Fluency & Reasoning) – Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number.
(Yr. 3 Fluency & Reasoning) – Count in multiples of 50 from zero.
(Yr. 3 Fluency & Reasoning) - Identify 100 more or 100 less than any given number.
(Yr. 3 – Problem Solving & Reasoning) - Solve number problems involving recognising the place value within a 3 digit number.
(Yr. 3 – Problem Solving & Reasoning) - Compare and order whole numbers to 1000.
A bundle of 11 Place Value activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents (includes negative numbers). Perfect for lesson starters to encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them, means you always have written evidence of students problem solving and reasoning skills! Presented in easy to photocopy format, with 4 or 2 activities to a page.
Learning Outcomes included are:
LO - Recognise the place value of each digit in a 4-digit number (Yr. 4 - Problem solving)
LO - Solve number and practical problems with number and place value, with increasingly large positive numbers (Yr. 4 - Problem Solving & Fluency)
LO: Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers (Yr. 4 Problem Solving & Fluency)
LO - Solve problems including missing number problems, using place value and more complex addition and subtraction (Yr. 4 Problem Solving & Reasoning)
LO - Find 1000 more or less than a given number (Yr. 4 Problem Solving & Reasoning)
LO - Count in multiples of 1000`s through negative numbers (Yr. 4 Fluency)
Struggling with bar modelling and finding multiplication and division tasks which do more than test you students calculation skills?
These activities encourage lots of talk, lots of reasoning and provide examples of your students fluency with calculation skills. They are also an excellent way for students to show their understanding of Concrete, Abstract and Pictorial representations of the process of division and multiplication.
A printable template to encourage children to see calculations as arrays, on a number-line , as repeated addition and pictorially. Shrink them down and use them for starter activities too.
I used it this week with my Year 3 class and they loved it.
Ten bar multiplication and division problems (all using multiplication facts for the 3 and 4 times-tables), with a choice of 3 possible bar models. Great for collecting evidence of fluency and reasoning. Presented 2 to a page for easy photocopying.
Learning Objectives covered:
LO: To solve multiplication problems using the 3 & 4 times table.
LO: To use a bar model to support calculations
A set of 10 Time related problems. Great for starters, to prompt reasoning and discussion, and also gather evidence of fluency skills. Includes concept cartoons and Roman Numerals
Learning objectives covered:
LO: To tell the time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3)
LO: Convert between analogue and 12-hour digital clocks (Fluency – Yr. 3)
LO: To know the number of seconds in a minute. (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3)
LO: To know the number of days in the month and months in a year. (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3)
LO: Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3)