20 Lessons: Maths in Context

Why I made this resource
Every maths lesson you teach, you give a clear learning outcome (or TBAT or WALT or Success Criteria - whatever it’s called in each school.) Your class follow your carefully planned steps, and succeed. However, in my experience, children then struggle when faced with:
-multi-step problems
-multi-operation problems
-questions without a clear method to use
-changes in maths skill required (E.g. suddenly needing to write an answer as a fraction)

How to Use
These lessons are designed to have limiting teaching beforehand, if at all. Instead, children tackle the real-life situation using a broad range of skills (money, decimals, written methods, mental strategies, converting between fractions and % etc) and get used to:
-thinking independently
-being less reliant on adults (“learned helplessness”)
-using a blend of skills at once

What’s included?
-20 real-life contexts (whole lessons) which each include:
>printable data pages (price lists, menus, information pages, league tables, timetables, fact files, recipes)
>15 differentiated questions (Band A = easiest, Band E = hardest. Harder Qs can be trimmed off the page, depending on your maths groups)
>Answer sheet