After a very happy career spanning over three decades (mostly in UKS2), retirement has enabled me to learn how to play the piano badly and run slowly...or is it the other way round? I shall also endeavour to upload various resources across the curriculum that I have created for others to use so please be patient as I learn more about the TES website.
After a very happy career spanning over three decades (mostly in UKS2), retirement has enabled me to learn how to play the piano badly and run slowly...or is it the other way round? I shall also endeavour to upload various resources across the curriculum that I have created for others to use so please be patient as I learn more about the TES website.
If your children like mathematical conundrums like Sudoku or love the beauty of algebra, then they will find arithmagons truly fascinating. The 23 slides in this PowerPoint presentation, which can last several mornings, introduce children to these polygon number puzzles before deepening their understanding by applying algebraic formulas or using more complex shapes.
Not only will your children enjoy being challenged with identifying missing numbers but they will also be challenged in trying to find a method for their solution (and in my experience, some will even find their own which work).
Although aimed directly for those teaching Years 5/6, it is also relevant for any KS2 or Y7 teacher.
I will always appreciate some feedback on the content of the lesson and any improvements that could be made.
If you like these lessons, please visit my shop for other resources and lessons aimed at upper keys stage 2 and lower key stage 3 at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/RobLlewellyn
Whether you prefer the triangle because it’s the strongest shape or the rounded beauty of the circle, 2-D shapes are truly fascinating. The 49 slides in these two PowerPoints revise our two-dimensional friends: an area of geometry that is often forgotten about in Y5/6 as we often wrongly presume that the children have remembered everything from previous years.
However, children enjoy being challenged with knowing more than just the names and basic properties of shapes.
There are 49 PowerPoint slides covering 4 lessons:
• The Euclidean plane, open and closed shapes, links to 3-d shapes, polygons, regular and irregular shapes, parallel and perpendicular sides, lines of symmetry, sorting shapes using Venn and Carroll diagrams, and identifying shapes using decision trees.
Although aimed directly for those teaching Years 5/6, it is also relevant for any KS2 or Y7 teacher.
I will always appreciate some feedback on the content of the lesson and any improvements that could be made.
I am so glad if you have found any of the free resources worthwhile; however, I do recommend investing in these additional ones which I have refined and used over many successful years as a Y6 teacher - trust me, you will not be disappointed. Together, these make an invaluable set of resources that you can use for teaching as well as revision.
In this bundle there are four sets of materials for Smart Notebook or PowerPoint: two relating to maths reasoning questions across all the programmes of study that typically appear each year; one reading resource where the children will quickly learn to spot weak answers and why other answers achieve a higher number of marks; and an extensive collection of SPaG questions that are similar to those that the children will undertake along with teaching points relating to common errors and misconceptions.
The slides in this Smart Notebook contain various questions that often appear in the arithmetic paper. These are best used for half an hour or so on the morning of the test before the children undertake it as a quick recap of methods used, ‘tricks’ that might need to be remembered and various prompts with regards to do’s and don’ts.
Although aimed directly for those teaching Years 5/6, it is also relevant for any KS2 or Y7 teacher.
It is intended that the slides are used on the morning of the test, prior to the children undertaking it.
If you like of the free resources, please check out the premium ones, including Bundle options such as the SATs Revision Collection with 44 slides of Reading resources, 67 slides to support teaching and learning in SPaG and 114 slides of Maths resources.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12830891
Any reviews or feedback on the content of the lesson and any improvements that could be made would be greatly appreciated.
The 36 slides in this PowerPoint or Smart Notebook contain NEW SATs-style reasoning questions that the children will encounter in their Y6 tests covering place value and operations, fractions, decimals and percentages, ratio and proportion, algebra, measurement, geometry with properties of shape as well as position and direction and statistics.
Although children could work independently, discussion with a partner would be encouraged so that they can share problem-solving skills.
Although aimed directly for those teaching Years 5/6, it is also relevant for any KS2 or Y7 teacher.
It is intended that the slides are used over one or two revision sessions.
The 78 slides in this PowewPoint or Smart Notebook contain SATs-style reasoning questions that the children will encounter in their Y6 tests.
Although children could work independently, discussion with a partner would be encouraged so that they can share problem-solving skills.
Although aimed directly for those teaching Years 5/6, it is also relevant for any KS2 or Y7 teacher.
It is intended that the slides are used over several revision sessions.
The slides in this Smart Notebook contain SATs-style reasoning questions that the children will encounter in their Y6 tests.
Although children could work independently, discussion with a partner would be encouraged so that they can share problem-solving skills.
Although aimed directly for those teaching Years 5/6, it is also relevant for any KS2 or Y7 teacher.
Any reviews or feedback on the content of the lesson and any improvements that could be made would be greatly appreciated.
If you like of the free resources, please check out the premium ones, including Bundle options such as the SATs Revision Collection with 44 slides of Reading resources, 67 slides to support teaching and learning in SPaG and 114 slides of Maths resources.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12830891
