Maths Mastery. Want your children to be Math Masters? These posters are sure to help you and your children on that journey! 6 posters, 5 objectives for a Math Master. I have used these posters as a permanent display on the side of my Math board. We refer to them in most lessons either as a part of the main learning or as a challenge or extension at the end of a learning task. After a while, I have found that some children refer to them independently and extend their learning without guidance from me. They have helped develop both Math Masters and independent learners over the years! There are double the amount of poster that you will need here – one half are for ‘Math Masters’, the other for ‘Maths Masters’ depending on where you are in the World. Please be mindful of our planet and only print what you need. Enjoy!

Balancing equations. Visualisation. Quick lesson. Balancing equations comes up in most maths assessments. It can be an area that children fall down on but these are such easy marks to pick up! This is a mini lesson. It could be used as a teaching tool, revision or a starter to another lesson. It goes through what these calculations look like. We visualise each side of the equation on a scale and discuss how the scale needs to be balanced. There are a couple of independent activities which don’t require printing – this can all be done form the screen. The lesson ends with a challenge question. Mini assessments are done throughout with the answers being shown and children marking their work as they go. I hope that it is helpful to you and your children and saves you time.

A beginner’s guide on how to use bar models to solve worded problems as a part of Maths Mastery. Bar modelling is a visualisation tool that is used in Maths as part of Maths Mastery. It is a hugely valuable skill to have and when it is taught properly and consistently it allows children to access more challenging worded problems and reasoning tasks. Once a bar model has been drawn, multiple facts can be drawn from it. These slides give an overview of types of models, questions that can be asked and facts that can be calculated. The following slide can be used in a number of different ways: • For your own information – maybe you are unsure about some of the models, what they look like or how they can be used. • For staff training – when I was Maths Lead I used these slides in different schools as part of teachers’ CPD. • For teaching or display – if you are teaching these models to children you might want to use some of the slides as part of your lesson or display. Whatever you choose to use them for, I hope they save you time and are helpful!

This resource includes 60 task cards that are clearly differentiated: adding 2,3 and 4 digit numbers. One set does not require exchanging, the other set does. The task cards are clearly numbered and labelled so that you can easily organise which child should use which cards. Each card has a part, part, whole bar model which the children can use to visualise the question. All the questions are a similar format to support fluency in addition worded problems. They work briliantly with Year 3 -4 children. This resource also includes ‘Become a Maths Master by:’ cards which could be copied onto the back of each of the task cards to extend the children’s learning further. All answers are included. The front sheet gives teachers a ‘How to use’ idea.

Year 4 expected worded fraction lesson. Maths mastery through visualisation, bar modelling and variation. ** SATS revision lesson** - Although a ‘Year 4 expected lesson’ the targetted questions have been taken from past SATS papers. This lesson leads to answering 3 questions taken from Year 4 expected examples from Testbase. For example: ‘My Granny lives 120km away from us. We are driving to see her and are 5/6 of the way there. How far have we driven so far?’ The lesson uses Bar Modelling and Variation (both from Shanghai / Singapore Maths as a part of Maths Mastery) to build children’s skills so they have the tools they need to answer these types of questions independently. CAN BE USED AS SATS REVISION It is presented as one lesson but depending on how long your lesson is, how quickly your children understand the learning and compete the work it may need 2 sessions. It looks at worded problems as short stories and models clearly how to draw bar models from the questions to support answering questions. I have uploaded the lessons and sheets as powerpoints which are easy to adapt if you would like to. There is one powerpoint with the lesson on. The other powerpoint is printables of the bar models for the practise section, the independent activity both as worded questions and as worded questions with bar models to be annotated. There is also challenge activity. I hope this lesson is useful, helps your children learn and saves you some time. This is the first lesson I have uploaded so any feedback would be helpful to me moving forwards. Thank you!

Display lettering with a polka dot backgound theme. This lettering looks great and is super quick to cut out so a great time saver! What is included: 135 sheets Capital and lower case letters 5 different colors All the same theme so perfect for mixing and matching This resource will make you displays look great, is quick and easy to cut so will save you time compared to cutting out individual letters.

Multiplication activity cards that are perfect for Year 4 revision for the multiplication test. These cards are designed for children to practise their tables independently. The last sheet is a page of ‘Answer Slips’. The idea being that the children can cover up the answers, answer the questions, slide the sheet over and mark their work. All the cards have 3 activities for each of the timestables on – questions in order, questions out of order and their inverse. These cards are colour coded from easier to harder: Yellow 1, 2, 10, 11 Orange 5, 9 Green 3,4 Blue 6, 7, 8, 12 They could be used as starters, challenges, revision work, extension activities. They could be photocopied and sent home. However you choose to use them, I hope that they are useful to your children and save you some time.