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This is a simple but fun activity that will help improve your classes measuring skills. Using a ruler, meter stick, trundle wheel, tape measure, or other measuring tool get your class to measure and record different items in your outdoor space.
It can be useful to give clear demonstrations as to how to use the different equipment. This activity can be further differentiated by allowing students to use a variety of equipment as well as asking them to measure to a greater level of accuracy.
Diff 1 - Students are given a pictures of which objects to measure.
Diff 2 - Students get to choose their own objects to measure.
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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for grades 3 - 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
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The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.**
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A FREE sample of our Christmas themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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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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In this active math lesson your students will use subtraction with carrying to work out whether they are better at certain activities first or second time around. They will complete each practical activity twice, working out the difference between their scores using column subtraction or different preferred method.
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This resource contains 3 levels of differentiation.**
Diff. 1: Whole number subtraction
Diff. 2: One decimal place subtraction
Diff. 3: Two decimal place subtraction
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Resources needed:**
Activity sheets
Timers
Tape Measure
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Easter Maths Activity Freebie! This download is one differentiated puzzle from the following product:
A fun Easter maths activity for grades 1 – 2 which consists of 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!
This pack contains four puzzles that are differentiated 2 ways (8 puzzles in total), which cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Contents:
- 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.
If you like this freebie why not check out our complete Easter Maths Puzzles Bundle for grades 1 - 6!
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Observing weather changes over time is simple but fascinating and a great learning experience for students where they will look at measuring and reading scales before presenting their results in a line graph (for the older children). For this activity they will record the temperature everyday for a week.
There is two activity sheets. One where they record the temperature once a day, the other where they will record the temperature twice a day.
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A FREE sample of our Christmas themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 and 6. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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Full description:
A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 - 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 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 will help reinforce students’ understanding of place value as they sort numbers on a number line in a fun and practical way.
The pack contains two number lines and sets of number cards, one with numbers from 1 – 10 and another from 1 – 100.
Set up:
Print out the number line cards and number cards (laminate if possible so they can be re-used).
Create the number line by sticking / tying the number line cards to something (a fence, the floor, trees, etc.). Try to make the scales as accurate as possible.
Teaching structure:
Give each child a number card and get them to run to the correct place on the numbers line.
Once all students are in the correct place, get them muddle up, swap cards with somebody, then find the correct place on the number line.
You can do this several times, giving students lots of practise at finding numbers on a number line. This activity is great both as a whole class and with smaller groups.
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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for grades 2 - 3. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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Start your math lessons outdoors with this FREE fun activity where your class will get into groups following different criteria, for example getting into even numbered groups.
This activity works well if you get the students running around until they hear a whistle (or similar), they must then stop and wait for the instructions before getting into the correctly sized groups. Students who are left out must then check all of the groups to see if they are correct.
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Outdoor scales are a great way to introduce and refresh measuring weight and comparing different objects. Students will build their own (or the teacher can pre-build) simple outdoor scales so they can have fun measuring different objects as well as completing our differentiated activity sheets where they are required to find and compare the weight of different objects.
Materials Needed:
Activity pack
Coat hangers
String
Buckets (or similar)
Teaching Structure
Build the scales: This is great for the students to do, however if you’re short of time this can be done prior to the lesson.
Have fun playing with the scales: Give students time to experiment and have fun with the scales.
Differentiated activity sheets: Students can now have more of a focus, completing the differentiated challenges on the activity sheets.
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This is a fun and practical game to teach students how to tally as part of your data handling topic. This game is best done in pairs or small groups. For this game each player will need 20 small sticks and each group will need a set of playing cards (if you use the third page of playing cards students will need 30 sticks each).
Get them to place the cards in a pile face down and turn over one at a time. Each time they turn a card they need to create the correct tally using their sticks. The first player to create the correct tally gets a point.
Equipment needed:
20 Sticks Per Player
Playing Cards
Score Sheet
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This free activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for finding least common multiples. It’s a great lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ multiplication skills without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a both complete cootie catchers with all the least common multiples filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the questions must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
2 x completed cootie catchers
2 x blank cootie catchers
Folding and playing directions as well as a blank template are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for equivalent fractions. It’s a great lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ fractions skills without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a both complete cootie catchers with all the equivalent fractions filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the questions must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
2 x completed cootie catchers
2 x blank cootie catchers
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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A FREE sample of our Christmas themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for grades 3 - 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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