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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 math board game is a great way for students to practise column addition with and without carrying including decimals without them even realising they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated decimal addition problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach addition.
Contents:
Diff. 1: Column addition with decimals & without carrying.
Diff. 2: Column addition with decimals & without carrying (more challenging).
Diff. 3: Column addition with decimals & carrying.
Diff. 4: Column addition with decimals & carrying (more challenging).
Check out our Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game here.
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These inverse operation challenge cards will give your students loads of practice using the inverse operation to figure out a variety of word problems (using multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division). You can use these task cards in a variety of ways from placing them randomly around your outdoor space and letting students find them to using them as extension or exit cards.
This pack contains 18 task cards with three levels of differentiation.
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with decimals without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
Playing cards with carrying
Playing cards without carrying
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Column Subtraction With and Without Carrying
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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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 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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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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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 pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. The bar model is great to help children visualize 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.
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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 animal themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 - 4. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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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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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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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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These cycling records are perfect to keep track of your cycling activity while looking at some mathematics skills such as addition and averages.
This pack contains 5 levels of differentiation to suite ages from 4 - 12 (or older!).
**Diff. 1: **Students will record the day and draw a picture for each of their rides.
Diff. 2: Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles (great for simple addition practice). Two design options available.
**Diff. 3: ** Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles at the end of each ride (great for simple addition).
Diff. 4: Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles at the end of each ride. Once all of their rides are complete they will answer some questions involving subtraction, averages, and division.
Diff. 5: Students will record the day, miles, total miles and time taken before working out their average speed for each ride. Once all of their rides are complete they will answer questions involving subtraction, averages, and division.
This record is perfect for national cycle weeks but is also a great way to teach mathematical skills in real world situations.
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Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students first look at how they can carry out this investigation, completing an investigation plan.
After the seeds are planted they’ll measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table. As part of the sheet they’ll need to work out differences in heights. We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate.
How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available. It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions.
It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities.
Suggested Plants:
Tomato
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Bush Beans
Green Onions
Summer Squash
Beets
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