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)

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 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)

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 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)

Looking for fraction lesson starters? This bundle has you sorted for the next 10 lessons! Ten Fractions lesson starters covering the following learning outcomes: LO - Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators - (Yr. 3 – Fluency) LO - Solve problems involving fractions of a number - (Yr. 3 – Fluency & problem solving) LO - Recognise and use fractions on a number line - (Yr. 3 – Fluency) LO - Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator LO - Solve problems involving fractions (Yr. 3 – Reasoning) LO – Recognise simple equivalent fractions (Yr. 3 – Reasoning) LO – To order fractions with the same denominators (Yr. 3 – Reasoning) LO – To compare and order fractions (Yr. 3 – Reasoning) Set out in easy to photocopy format 4 to a page (sometimes 2 to a page). I use them with my class to start every maths lesson, encouraging discussion and reasoning between students. AND as a cheeky bonus using them means I always have written evidence of students reasoning skills!

A bundle of 6 Place Value talk time activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents. Perfect for lesson starters, presented with 4 activities to a page for easy photocopying. Includes the following Learning Outcomes: LO – To be able to recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (hundreds, tens, and ones) (Yr. 3 LO. Mastery with greater depth). LO - Solve place value problems (Yr. 3 LO. Problem Solving) LO – To solve number problems and practical problems with number and place value. (Year 3 LO) LO – To be able to recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (hundreds, tens, and ones) (Place Value Reasoning- Yr. 3 LO)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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.