Cut up the squares with the dienes pictures and letters in. Place these around the classroom. Give each child a recording grid. When they find a card, they must count the dienes and write the number in the box with the same letter on their grid. Answers included to help self-marking!

Ancient Egyptian themed. The Nile Stores sells lots of items - prices are differentiated 3 ways. Print out and cut up lots of copies of the medium and spicy numberlines. Children choose mild, medium or spicy and take a copy of the price list and some numberline challenges. At the left, they write the price of the item, at the right they write how much money they have (stated on the challenge card). They then counting up to the number and work out their change by figuring the size of the jumps. Model this carefully. The children really enjoyed this activity and found the new method for working out change accessible.

An introduction to adding fractions using physical apparatus and pictoral representations. There are worksheets differentiated 3 ways (mild, medium and spicy) and a notebook to guide you through the initial lesson. It includes discussion points, key questions and visual aids. Loop cards for adding AND subtracting fractions with the same denominator. Cut along the red and the blue lines. Enough for 1 card each in a class of 30. Fractions board game, themed around star wars. Roll the dice, move on that number, the star you land on you have to say what you would need to reach one whole e.g. if you land on three quarters, say one quarter. If you get it wrong you miss a turn next time.

Worksheets differentiated 3 ways (aimed at Year 3 pupils) to evidence problem solving skills using counting in 50s and 100s

A guide to bar modelling across all areas of maths and all year groups. Collated using a variety of quality sources (all referenced in the document) and from my own teaching experience and professional development as maths lead. Hopefully you will find it useful.

Designed for a Year 3 class modelled on the vocabulary and bar models used in White Rose Maths. 3 different activities look at using bar models for adding and subtracting (including finding the difference)