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Problem Solving in Early Years Maths CPD Session!
This informative session offers Early Years practitioners a more in-depth understanding of how to employ problem-solving activities effectively in their classrooms. It is intended to be used in a short, introductory, information-sharing CPD environment, and took me about 45 minutes to deliver. The session is rooted in findings from educational research (links included) and goes through:
Exactly what constitutes problem-solving, and why it is so essential in the broader context of maths education;
Key ingredients for ensuring that problem-solving tasks are engaging and effective;
Some excellent model examples of problem-solving activities;
How to incorporate ‘incidental problem-solving’ into classrooms;
Useful links for resources and task ideas, and further reading.
I hope that you find it useful!
Time Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to understanding time. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Reading the Face of a Clock - including understanding the minute and hour hands;
Key Time Facts - understanding the duration of days, weeks, months, years, etc;
Roman Numerals - to aid children in telling the time on old-fashioned clocks;
Digital and Analogue Times - looking at different ways to express the time using the 12 and 24 hour clocks, using both digital and analogue clocks;
Average Time Spent in a Day Timeline
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
The resource could be adapted for a variety of ages and abilities, but I originally used this with Key Stage 2 children.
Year 1 Place Value (within 10) Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for Year 1 teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Place Value (within 10)’ mathematics content.
The content is organised into ‘Entry Knowledge’, ‘Core Knowledge’ and ‘More Advanced Knowledge’ and contains information relating to the following objectives:
-Sort up to 10 objects -Count objects to 10
-Count objects from a group of 10 -Represent up to 10 objects
-Represent numbers up to 10 -Count forwards to 10
-Count backwards from 10 -Count one more for numbers within 10
-Count one less for numbers within 10 -Perform counting activities
-Learn one to one correspondence -Compare up to 10 objects
-< > and = for numbers within 10 -Compare numbers within 10
-Order up to 10 objects -Order numbers up to 10
-Learn about ordinal numbers -Know the number line from 0-10
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth and Darcy's Relationship Graph Task!
This interesting task provides students with an opportunity to track Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship throughout 'Pride and Prejudice.'
Students first rate Elizabeth and Darcy's feelings for one another at different points in the text on a 1-10 scale, plotting their rating on the graph. They then justify the rating with an explanation and textual evidence, in the table beneath.
It's great for helping them to see how the relationship develops over the course of the text, and also offers a novel cross-curricular link with maths.
Shameless plug - if you like this resource, please take a look at my paid 'Pride and Prejudice' resources, available as single lessons or in the lesson bundle. Thanks!
Y2 Addition and Subtraction - Maths Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for Year 2 teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Addition and Subtraction’ in mathematics.
The content is organised into the following sections:
-Overview: Learning areas covered, key definitions, why this learning is important;
-Add and Subtract 1s and 10s;
-Number Bonds to 20;
-Column Addition and Subtraction;
-Key Vocabulary.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Y6 Statistics - Maths Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for Year 6 teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Statistics’ in mathematics.
The content is organised into the following sections:
-Overview: Learning areas covered, key definitions, why this learning is important;
-Tables and Timetables;
-Line Graphs;
-Pie Charts;
-The Mean Average;
-Key Vocabulary.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Y5 Addition and Subtraction Knowledge - Maths Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for Year 5 teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Addition and Subtraction’ in mathematics.
The content is organised into the following sections:
-Overview: Learning areas covered, key definitions, why this learning is important;
-Addition Methods (two 5-digit numbers, inc. no exchanging and exchanging);
-Subtraction Methods (two 5-digit numbers, inc. no exchanging and exchanging);
-Efficient Subtraction;
-Using Inverse Operations;
-Multistep Problems;
-Key Vocabulary.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Wimbledon Maths Puzzles!
These short and snappy puzzles are perfect for engaging all of the Wimbledon lovers in your class in a wide range of maths problems! Using real-life statistics from the official Wimbledon website, students approach a number of varied maths topics, whilst also gaining valuable information about their favourite players and the history of the tournament. I have used these resources with a number of KS2 and KS3 classes, and have always found that students find them extremely interesting and informative.
Some of the maths topics covered include: statistics, percentages, charts and graphs, data handling, averages, ratios, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, estimation and problem solving, critical thinking, and fractions. Some of the specific tasks involved include: working out the win ratios and percentages of top players, finding out how to reach the All-England Club from different locations, working out the best ticket combinations to buy at the ground, and comparing player performance over different tournaments.
There are 30 tasks in total, in which a number of men and women players are focused upon through varied activities. The tasks are also separated by difficulty into ‘Beginner’,‘Intermediate’, and ‘Difficult’ tasks (refer to the B, I, or D symbols in the top left of each activity).
All images within this resource are licensed for commercial use, and images are cited on the final slide.
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Pointless Bundle - All of the games and template to create your own!
Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', these resources are perfect for use as a starter activity, plenary, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change the questions/answers. Containing sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, these resources are effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning.
There are several fully functional and challenging games, including:
- English ('Building Adjectives', and learning 'Macbeth.')
- Maths ('Shape, Space, and Measure)
- Science (Physics, Space.)
- History ('World War II' and 'The Tudors.')
- Geography (Populations)
Plus, a blank template for you to create your own Pointless games, based on whatever topic your class is studying!
The nature of the game ensures that this resource can challenge students of all levels.
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Jargon Hunt - KS2 Bundle! (English, Maths, & Science) Building Literacy through Riddles & Teamwork!
Welcome to Jargon Hunt! These engaging and exciting activities are perfect for building students' literacy skills; helping them to understand key English, Maths, and Science vocabulary through cryptic rhyming riddles and teamwork.
Once the game is introduced and the rules are shared (on the presentation) students are given a riddle card and an answer card. The only catch is that their answer card does not match their riddle! Through reading their riddle to others, and allowing others to read their riddles to them, students learn the English, Maths, and Science vocabulary as prescribed for teaching at KS2 in the new National Curriculum.
Provided in this bundle pack are:
- 3 x 30+ slide presentations, hosted by David Dictionary-son, who walks students through the game in a step-by-step fashion.
-3 x Class-size packs of riddle cards and answer cards. They simply need to printed on card, or printed on paper and laminated.
These resources are a valuable tool for helping students to comprehend the words that they will need to understand in the New Curriculum, build valuable speaking and listening skills, and also have lots of fun!
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Holiday Fun Activities Bundle!
Included in this bundle are hours of fun, interactive, and productive activities that have been tried and tested with hundreds of happy children. Not only are the activities engaging, they also enable young people to develop their key skills in areas as varied as: Literacy, Numeracy, Science, Art and Design, PSHE, and Speaking and Listening.
Included within the bundle are the following popular resources:
- Murder Mystery Investigation: Students use exhibits, maps, evidence, and budgeting skills in order to solve a murder mystery case;
- Fantasy Football Club Group Project: Students design and resource their own football team from scratch, using a limited budget and selection of classic and modern footballers;
- Stating Your Case for the World’s Greatest Sportsperson - Students use their researching, persuasive writing, and speaking and listening skills to argue the case for the best sportsperson of all time;
- Space Mission: Find Us A New Earth! - Students are given an imaginative scenario and real-life information about the current most hospitable exo-planets, and must use their scientific and literacy skills to build a case for the next planet humans should inhabit;
- Crazy Animal Limericks Anthology - Loads of fun animal limericks for students to read, and comprehension/ creative tasks for them to complete.
All that you have to do is print and go, everything that you need for these resources (including teacher guidance) is provided.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slides of the presentations.
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Pride and Prejudice Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Austen’s use of language.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Ratio and Proportion KS2 Bundle!
This stimulating and comprehensive lesson bundle contains a number of engaging and detailed ‘ratio and proportion’ lessons:
Ratio and Proportion: Introduction - Students understand the key terms ratio and proportion, and use these mathematical concepts in order to solve number problems involving relative quantities and unequal sharing.
Percentage Problems - Students solve a range of problems involving the calculation of percentages, including for measures and comparisons.
Similar Shapes - Students use their understanding of ratio and scale factor to solve a number of varied and real-world similar shapes problems.
Combined, the lessons enable children to meet and exceed the following curriculum standards:
solve problems involving the relative sizes of 2 quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts;
solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison;
solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found 4. solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples.
Each lesson follows a clear step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Defining, exemplifying, and understanding the key concepts through clear and simple explanations;
-Demonstrating their understanding through well-differentiated (Bronze, Silver, and Gold Challenge) application and challenge activities;
-Applying their understanding to real-life problems, for example involving recipes;
-Gauging their own understanding through both AfL activities and self-reflection tasks.
Included in each lesson is:
Whole lesson PowerPoints - clear and precise, colourful and comprehensive;
Bronze, Silver, and Gold level award worksheets - carefully differentiated and provided in both Word and PDF;
Teacher answer sheets;
A detailed teacher lesson plan.
Student helpsheets (where appropriate)
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with Year 6 (and higher-attaining Year 5) classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 4 and 9 with some minor adaptations. Some of the content really does become quite challenging (especially the Gold sheets) and so these resources could easily be used for KS3 children.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Time - Maths Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Time’ in mathematics across Years 1 to 4.
Included are 4 organisers:
-Year 1 Time Knowledge Organiser
-Year 2 Time Knowledge Organiser
-Year 3 Time Knowledge Organiser
-Year 4 Time Knowledge Organiser
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Money - Maths Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Money’ in mathematics across Years 1 to 4.
Included are 4 organisers:
-Year 1 Money Knowledge Organiser
-Year 2 Money Knowledge Organiser
-Year 3 Money Knowledge Organiser
-Year 4 Money Knowledge Organiser
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Shape - Maths Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children when covering 'Shape’ in mathematics across Years 1 to 6.
Included are 6 organisers:
-Year 1 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser
-Year 2 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser
-Year 3 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser
-Year 4 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser
-Year 5 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser
-Year 6 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Year 1 Maths Complete Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children throughout the teaching and learning of all of the Year 1 maths blocks.
Included are 14 organisers:
-Addition and Subtraction to 10
-Addition and Subtraction to 20
-Fractions
-Length and Height
-Money
-Multiplication and Division
-Number and Place Value to 10
-Number and Place Value to 20
-Number and Place Value to 50
-Number and Place Value to 100
-Position and Direction
-Properties of Shape
-Time
-Weight and Volume
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resources are designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDFs and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Measurement - Maths Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children when covering ‘Measurement’ in mathematics across Years 1 to 6.
Included are 6 organisers:
-Year 1 Length and Height Knowledge Organiser
-Year 2 Length and Height Knowledge Organiser
-Year 3 Length and Perimeter Knowledge Organiser
-Year 4 Length and Perimeter Knowledge Organiser
-Year 5 Area and Perimeter Knowledge Organiser
-Year 6 Area, Perimeter and Volume Knowledge Organiser
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Multiplication and Division - Primary Maths Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children when covering 'Multiplication and Division’ in mathematics across Years 1 to 6.
Included are 6 organisers:
-Year 1 Multiplication and Division Knowledge Organiser
-Year 2 Multiplication and Division Knowledge Organiser
-Year 3 Multiplication and Division Knowledge Organiser
-Year 4 Multiplication and Division Knowledge Organiser
-Year 5 Multiplication and Division Knowledge Organiser
-Year 6 Four Operations Knowledge Organiser
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).
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Year 2 Maths Complete Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for teachers, parents and children throughout the teaching and learning of all of the Year 2 maths blocks.
Included are 11 organisers:
-Addition and Subtraction
-Fractions
-Length and Height
-Mass, Capacity and Temperature
-Money
-Multiplication and Division
-Number and Place Value
-Position and Direction
-Shape
-Statistics
-Time
Each organiser contains clear sections covering the key learning areas, including an overview, the specific learning content, and important vocabulary. The knowledge is sequenced in alignment with the National Curriculum and most commonly-used mathematics schemes. Images are used to present and clarify ideas.
The resources are designed to be printed onto either A3 or A4, and are provided as both PDFs and Word versions (so that you can edit if you want to).