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Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding balanced equations with addition and subtraction. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles from simple additions with the numbers in the tens, hundreds, thousands, and negative numbers. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros balancing equations.
Contents:
3 x differentiated complete and mixed Tarsia puzzles.
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles
Balancing Equations (Years 2 - 3)
Equivalent Fractions
Fractions of Numbers
Long Division
Long Multiplication Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000
Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity
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This is a fun and practical activity for continuing patterns that’ll get your students identifying and continuing patterns without them even realizing they’re learning! These activity sheets are great for the main lesson, filler, or extension activities.
They will roll a dice and complete the matching patterns on the activity sheet until all number patterns are complete.
You can even add a level of competition by seeing how quickly they can complete the game.
This resource contains 12 differentiated activity sheets for grades 1 - 5.
Check out our other Roll and Multiply Bundle for times tables 2 - 12:
Roll & Multiply Bundle
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The tree age investigation is a great activity if you’re focusing on perimeter, measuring, or data handling. Your class will use a simple formula to figure out the rough age of the trees around your outdoor space, completing some fun challenges, or collecting data to input into graphs.
This resource pack contains two different activities you could do when looking at the ages of trees.
Challenge questions – For this activity your class will figure out the age of trees while completing the different challenges on the sheet.
Data handling – Students will collect data by identifying trees and calculating their age. They will then use this data to complete bar graphs and answer some questions about their findings. Both of these activities work best in pairs as it makes it easier to measure the diameter of trees.
Resources needed:
Flexible tape measure
Activity pack sheets
Calculator
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This Christmas themed coordinates activity contains 8 differentiated (4 quadrant and 1 quadrant) worksheets where the children need to find the missing Christmas themed words by using the coordinates given in the table.
This is great to be done in class or sent home as a distance learning exercise. I have used these time and time again and my class always love cracking the code.
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This halloween themed coordinates activity contains 8 differentiated (4 quadrant and 1 quadrant) worksheets where the children need to find the missing halloween themed words by using the coordinates given in the table.
This is great to be done in class or sent home as a distance learning exercise. I have used these time and time again and my class always love cracking the code.
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A set of 24 differentiated task cards to practice the bar model method with mental addition and subtraction. These task cards are perfect to give years 3 - 4 students loads of practice with mental addition and subtraction using the visual bar model method. This pack contains two levels of differentiation each with 12 cute animal themed cards. You can provide equipment to add a further level of differentiation for this who need a more concrete approach.
We love to hide these cards around our outdoor space and use them as a math scavenger hunt but there are loads more ways to use these task card to fit your needs!
**Purple cards: Addition and subtraction within 40.
Pink cards: Addition and subtraction within 210.**
An answer sheet and answer key is also provided with this resource.
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This activity is all about measuring circumferences. Children will go outside and find 8 trees to measure the circumference of, recording their answers in the table. It’s good to discuss what the easiest way to measure the circumference of a tree trunk is, hopefully coming to the conclusion that using string is a quick and easy way to measure the circumference. You can either mark out length of string or get them to measure the string after each trunk measurement.
Once they’ve recorded the circumference of 8 tree trunks they can then complete the differentiated question sheets. The second sheet has a focus on averages whereas the first sheet focuses on simple questions about the data they’ve collected.
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Become a police officer for a day while students use their measuring, division, and number skills to work out how fast cars are going in a chosen area using formulas and conversions.
For this activity your class will measure out a stretch of road before timing cars and using formulas to figure out the speed that the car is moving. They will collect a set of results in a table before creating a bar graph to clearly represent their data. After the investigation they will be given some evaluation questions to answer about what they’ve found out.
This is a fantastic real-world math investigation for those aspiring police officers!
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A set of fun space themed NO PREP differentiated practise questions and word problems using the bar model 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 while giving them loads of practise at using it with and without word problems.
Contents
3 Sets of practise questions
4 Sets of differentiated word problems
Check out our inverse operation worksheets using the bar model.
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This Halloween get your students drawing all of their favourite Halloween pictures while thinking about scaling up and measuring.
For this activity students will use chalk to draw Halloween themed pictures on your playground using a specified measurement or scale to work to.
It’s great at allowing students to practice using different equipment, measuring accurately, as well as scaling up.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Diff. 1 - Students will use the measurements given to draw the images the correct size.
Diff. 2 - Students must measure the images on the sheets and scale them up using the given scale before using chalk to draw the onto the playground.
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This activity will teach your students about the greater than, less than and equals symbols (<, >, =) as they figure out the multiplication and division number sentence and write their own number sentence according to the symbol shown.
This resource pack contains 7 differentiated worksheets. If further differentiation is required you can provide students with cubes and number lines to help them to figure out the divisions and multiplications.
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These conversion pair cards will get your students converting between different units of measure. They can be used in loads of different ways including as an outdoor scavenger hunt. They are sure to give your students tons of practice converting units of measure in a fun and engaging way.
Conversions included: Millimeter, centimeter, & meters Milliliter & liter Grams & kilograms
Ideas for use:
**Game 1: **Hide the cards around your outdoor area and get the students to go on a scavenger hunt to find the matching pairs.
**Game 2: **Give each of the children 1 card, get them to walk around and find the other person with the matching card. How quickly can they do it?
**Game 3: **In pairs, put all of the cards face down on the table. Take it in turns turning over two cards to try and find a matching pair. The person with the most pairs at the end is the winner
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This is a great outdoor activity to get students practicing column addition both with and without decimals as well as practicing their measurement skills.
They will measure two items that they find outside before adding the lengths together using column addition in the space provided on the activity sheets. This resource has three levels of challenge. Measure to the nearest whole number Measure to the nearest mm (tenth) Measure three items to the nearest mm.
For this activity provide each child with a tape measure or ruler and our activity sheet. You could also use different equipment to provide a further challenge.
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Shape builder is a great activity for shape recognition as well as looking at the properties of shapes. The students will head outside and create the shapes on the card using sticks before completing the shape ID card with its properties.
This resource contains differentiated shape ID cards.
Diff. 1 – Students are required to fill out the number of edges and corners.
Diff. 2 – Students are required to fill out the number of edges, right angles and parallel lines.
Diff. 3 - Students are required to fill out the number of edges, right angles, parallel lines, and lines of symmetry.
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These outdoor division task cards are a great way to give your class lots of practice at division using their chosen method. Each card contains a division problem that they will need to solve in your outdoor space.
In order to solve these problems, measure the given length stated on the task card using an appropriate method (string, ruler, etc.) and then divide the length by the length of the specified object (leaf, stick, or stone). For example, if the length of the playground was 25 meters and the length of a stick was 50cm, the division would be 25,000 / 50. This resource can be differentiated by getting the students to use the method of division best suited to their ability.
We find this activity is best done in pairs so that they can scaffold each others learning.
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This set of Christmas themed subtraction word problems are perfect for grades 1 – 2 to get ready for the festive season. There are 24 math word problems, 12 of which are ‘challenging’ problems for those children who need the extra level of difficulty.
These NO PREP subtraction problems can be used as worksheets, or they can be cut out and used as task cards.
Contents
- 12 X Subtraction Word Problems
- 12 X Challenging Subtraction Word Problems
- 2 X Answer Keys
We hope you have fun with these and have a wonderful Christmas! ☺
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A set of Easter themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 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.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
Have a fantastic Easter break!
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A set of Easter themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on multiplication and division for years 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.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
Have a fantastic Easter break!
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These differentiated task cards are perfect for your students to get loads of practice at working out missing angles for 3, 4 and 5 sided shapes as well as other missing angles as part of your shape, space, and measure topic.
This pack contains 20 differentiated cards along with an answer sheet for students to fill in as well as an answer key.
These cards can be used in loads of different ways. We love to stick them up around our outdoor space and get the students to hunt them out before solving the missing angles.
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