We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
A scaling activity your children are sure to love. This pack contains a selection of worksheets along with a main outdoor learning activity where they have to scale a picture up to draw real sized animals. This allows them to put into practice lots of different mathematical skills while being amazed at the size of some of the animals.
Skills it focuses on:
- Scaling
- Measuring
- Timetables
- Accurate Drawing
Contents:
- 2 x differentiated worksheets where they scale up a simple shape into a grid
- 1 x worksheet where they draw a simple image and scale it up into a grid and then onto the playground
- 5 x animal scaling activity sheets where they must scale up the animals to their real size
Get your children outside, engaged, and learning!
This resource will give your class loads of practise working out number bonds to 100 using the bar model method. It’s a non-prep resource which contains multiple levels of differentiation from working with multiples of 10, working outside multiples of 10, and solving word problems.
B&W copies are included with this resource.
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This board game is a great way for students to practise elapsed time problems 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 elapsed time 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 and fun way to teach time.
Contents:
Diff. 1: The board progresses in hour intervals
Diff. 2: The board progresses in half hour intervals
Diff. 3: The board progresses in half hour intervals using the 24-hour clock.
Diff. 4: The board progresses in 15-minute intervals
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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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A set of NO PREP differentiated practise questions and word problems using the bar model focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 - 6. 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
- 2 Sets of differentiated practise questions with challenge word problems
- 3 Sets of differentiated word problems
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Check out our Bar Model resources for other ages
Years 1 - 2
Years 3 - 4
Years 5 - 6
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with and without carrying 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
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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Who doesn’t love a treasure hunt!? This is a great activity for looking at compass bearings and use as well as instruction writing. For this lesson students will hide some treasure before writing instructions to get from the starting point to the treasure using compass bearings.
Once the instructions are complete they can swap with a friend and see if they can find each other’s treasure.
We hope you find this resource useful and enjoy working outside with your class!
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A set of 4 NO PREP worksheets using the bar model to look at inverse operations. 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 to solve inverse operation problems (some of which include carrying / borrowing).
Contents
5 differentiated inverse operation worksheets + answer key.
Check out our inverse operations worksheets for years 4 and 5.
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Ratios are everywhere and a great opportunity to take your math lesson outside! For this fun outdoor ratio lesson your students will collect some leaves, write some ratio sentences based on their characteristics and then convert the ratios to fractions.
It’s a great way to recap ratio to students and give them lots of practice at spotting different ratios as well as converting the ratios to their equivalent fractions.
This resource contains two levels of differentiation.
Diff 1: They must write the ratio and convert it to the fractions.
Diff 2: They must write the ratio and convert it to the fractions, before simplifying the fraction.
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Algebra can be great fun outdoors! This activity will introduce simplifying algebraic equations to your children while exploring sticks and leaves found in your outdoor space. They will be given a differentiated task card containing a formula which they must build before simplifying. The ‘x’ represents sticks and ‘y’ represents leaves. If the formula reads x + y + x they must order stick, stick, leaf and then write ‘2x + y’ underneath. This pack contains 22 card with 8 challenge cards.
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This is a great outdoor activity to get students practicing column subtraction both with and without decimals as well as practicing their measurement skills. They will measure two or three items that they find outside before subtracting the lengths using column subtraction to find the difference between the items.
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 measuring equipment to provide a further challenge.
Check out our column addition outdoor activity!
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This foldable activity consists of 2 differentiated cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising converting fractions to decimals. The children must look at the fraction given, convert it to a decimal, and fold back the paper to see if they’re right. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge and not even realise that they’re learning! They’ll be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack contains two Cootie Catchers, each with a second copy included if you would like your students to write the equivalent decimal for each fraction themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other cootie catchers:
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
The Water Cycle
This set of Christmas themed addition word problems are perfect for grades 1 – 2 to get ready for the festive season. There are 24 word problems, 12 of which are ‘challenging’ problems for those children who need the extra level of difficulty.
The first set of questions are mostly simple addition without carrying, however the challenge questions involve one and two step carrying.
These NO PREP resources can be used as worksheets, or they can be cut out and used as task cards.
Contents
- 12 X Addition Word Problems
- 12 X Challenging Addition Word Problems
- 2 X Answer Keys
We hope you have fun with these and have a wonderful Christmas! ☺
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Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding a fraction of a number. The large puzzle pieces are great to be used as a fun outdoor extension or recap activity however the small puzzles can easily be used as a full lesson activity. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are know pros at finding fractions of numbers!
Contents:
2 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles each containing
- Muddled up puzzle worksheet
- Complete puzzle worksheet
- Large puzzle pieces
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles!
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
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A fun Easter maths activity for grades 3 – 4 that consists of 8 differentiated maths puzzles that make Easter themed shapes where children must work out the answers to questions to match the pieces together. This is a perfect activity for fun revision lessons as you are winding down for the holidays!
This pack contains four puzzles that are differentiated 2 ways (8 puzzles in total), which cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Contents:
- Addition puzzle X 2
- Subtraction puzzle X2
- Division puzzle X 2
- Multiplication puzzle X 2
Although each puzzle is differentiated, you can also change the level of challenge by asking the children to work out the answers in their head or by allowing them to write down their workings out.
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Be it measuring, converting cm to m, data handling, estimation, graphing, or science, this outdoor math activity has it all. Your students will use a practical technique to measure and record the height of trees around your outdoor space before compiling their results into a chart that could be used for further investigation.
It’s useful for students to have access to books / the internet for this activity to help them identify the trees.
**Contents: **
Instruction sheets
Differentiated record sheets
Differentiated bar chart sheets
Questions sheet
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These multiplication station task cards are a fun and active way to generate numbers for one, two, and three digit multiplication practise. Simply print them out and stick them around your outdoor area or hall (a few require some basic resources e.g. balls etc.) then let the children run about, completing the challenges and working out the written multiplications using their chosen method from the numbers generated.
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- Answer / Working Sheet
- 10 X Multiplication Station Task Cards
- 10 X Challenge Multiplication Station Task Cards
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A set of Christmas 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 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.
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Have a fantastic Christmas break!
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This activity is designed to introduce your class to balancing equations in a simple and visual way. They will complete simple additions to balance the equation, with each addition having a visual representation. Students can also use physical aids, such as cubes, to further reinforce this concept while solving the worksheets.
Contents:
Balance The Equation Worksheet: Numbers 1 - 10
Balance The Equation Worksheet: Numbers 1 - 20
Black and white copies are included in this pack.
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A FREE sample of our Christmas themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 and 6. 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.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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