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.

I have broken the GPS (SPaG) progression documents into objectives per strand, to make it easier to track progress, or isolate gaps in student knowledge. Really useful if you have a mixed year group class or a class with a wide range of abilities.

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

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)

My mixed Year 3/4 loved these activities. A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The Scarecrow and his Servantby Philip Pullman. Planning and text attached .

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.

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.

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `Beaky`by Jez Alborough. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.

Make basic addition and subtraction more engaging with these triominoes. Students simply cut out the individual triangles on each sheet, and then reassemble into a larger triangle with each calculation matching its correct answer. Four differentiated sheets: Higher ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into millions) Middle ability (addition and subtraction with numbers to 1 million) Lower ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into thousands) SEN (addition with numbers to 25) In two different formats - pdf and powerpoint (editable)

Inspired by the Year 5 mastery document, Zippy Onion and his Spanish moustache return to help students solve reasoning place value problems. I have presented to identical sets on the same sheet for ease of photocopying. Learning objective – to determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1 million

A thinking skills activity to encourage students to consider why the Romans were such successful invaders. All discussion points are true, students need to order them in a diamond ranking, there are no wrong answers so all students can safely enjoy discussing their ideas, without fear of failure. As a further challenge I asked students to design one more battle tactic to add to the Roman arsenal. Learning Objective is from the new 2014 Curriculum.

Everything you need for your reciprocal reading unit, contains over 20 differentiated activities organized into the 5 reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Questions, Infer, plus addition GPS activities. No cutting - just print and go! Detailed planning for each day matching Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014).

A week of planning, spelling and resources for guided reading/reciprocal reading to accompany an extract from the book Clockworkby Philip Pullman. All learning objectives taken from the Year 3 / 4, National Curriculum guidance (2015).

A bundle of 10 Multiplication talk time 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 reasoning skills! Set out in easy to photocopy format, 4 to a page (sometimes 3 to a page). Includes the following Learning Outcomes: LO – Yr. 3 – Problem Solving - Calculate mentally using multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables, including two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers. LO - Yr.3 – Problem Solving & Fluency - Using multiplication and division facts for the 2, 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables, including two-digit numbers multiplied by one-digit numbers to solve problems. LO - Yr.3 – Problem Solving & Reasoning - Solve calculation problems involving multiplication and division, including missing number problems, simple positive integer scaling and simple correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects. LO - Yr. 3 – Problem Solving - Solve number problems using multiplication facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.

Ten rounding activities, including rounding of decimals, with reasoning and problem solving. Use them to start every maths lesson, encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them means you always have written evidence of students reasoning skills! Set out in easy to photocopy format, 4 to a page (sometimes 2 to a page). Learning Outcomes included are: LO - Solve problems involving rounding (Yr. 4 – Fluency & problem solving) LO – To round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 (Yr. 4 – Fluency) LO – To round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 (Yr. 4 – Reasoning) LO – To be able to reason on rounding facts known (Yr. 4 - Reasoning) LO - Solve problems involving rounding decimals (Yr. 4 – Problem Solving & reasoning)

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 bundle of resources to help with reasoning and visual representations of fractions. Learning Objectives covered: Show using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators. Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator up to one whole. Find pairs of fractions that add up to a whole. Solve fraction problems using what I know so far about fractions.

I have used these resources this week to introduce grid method of multiplication and build on advice from White Rose Hub resources. Pack includes initial discussion prompt, 5 days of talk-time activities (or 2 lessons worth of questions), and a matching activity to assess pupil understanding and reasoning skills.

Inspired by Nrich & White Rose hub materials this is a bundle of 11 different problem solving activities, to practice working systematically. I have been using them as starters to get discussion and reasoning flowing, and to collect and share different ways of setting out problems.