I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
Lesson 1: Week 5
Title Mass
Learning Objective:
solve measurement problems
use words about mass and ways of measuring weight
measure using non-standard units
compare weights
estimate and measure.
Mental Warm Up:
Imagine a spider is on number 4 of a hundred square. Which number is below it?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be finding out about mass which is how heavy things are.
Educational Challenges
Make a poster of classroom objects that are heavier or lighter than a kilogram.
Lesson 5: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
make decisions and check calculations
solve money problems
use the appropriate number operation.
Mental Warm Up:
I buy two items that come to a total of 20p. How much could each of the items have cost? Write your answers as addition sentences.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to solve some money problems.
Educational Challenges
Choose two items from the café menu. Put the combinations under headings – ‘Less than 30p’ and ‘More than 30p’.
Find two items that cost a total of 37p, 46p, 47p, 48p and 56p.
Make up some prices for a friend to match to items on the café menu.
Lesson 4: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
check calculations
say what each coin is
solve money problems.
Mental Warm Up:
Find two items that would cost more than 30p in total.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be finding different ways of making an amount of money.
Educational Challenges
Get into pairs with someone from a different maths group.
Find different ways to make 50p.
Use only silver coins.
Record as a ‘spider chart’.
Lesson 3: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
choose and use correct calculations
check calculations
solve money word problems
find totals and give change.
Mental Warm Up:
What are the different ways I could pay?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to calculate totals and how much change we would need from 50p.
Educational Challenges
Each person must choose two items from the café menu. Who would get the most change from 50p?
If you had 50p to spend on any two items, what would you choose to give you the most change and the least change?
What two items from the café would you have to buy to get exactly 10p change?
Lesson 2: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
solve money word problems
recognise and use different value coins
select the right coins to pay.
Mental Warm Up:
Make these circles into coins.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to show which coins we could use to pay for our items.
Educational Challenges
Choose two items from the café menu. Which coins could you use to pay for your choices? Could you use fewer coins?
Choose two items from the café menu. Use coins to make up the totals.
Choose two items from the café menu. Which coins could you use to pay for your choices?
Lesson 1: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
select and use the right calculation
check our calculations
solve money word problems
find totals.
Mental Warm Up:
Anya has two coins of the same value. What are the possible amounts of money that she could have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be working on finding totals and checking calculations.
Educational Challenges
Choose a drink and another item from the café menu. Choose four possible options. How much would you spend each time?
Choose four different options from the café menu. What is the most and least you could spend?
Lesson 5: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add and use words to do with adding
add a teens number to a two-digit number
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
understand that addition can be carried out in any order
find pairs of numbers that make a given total
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
Play ‘Add the Throw’
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to continue our work on adding teens numbers to a two-digit number.
Educational Challenges
Find pairs of numbers that total 49.
Lesson 4: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
use the words to describe adding
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
know adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit in a circle. You will be given a number card 1–19. Put it in front of you. Let everyone see your card.Can you see whose card added to yours would make 20? Put up your hand. Tell me who has the card you need. What number is on it?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be adding a teens number to a two-digit number by breaking them up into tens and ones.
Educational Challenges
Practise adding a two-digit number and a teens number. Make up some number sentences of your own.
Sort number sentence cards into those which are correct and those which are wrong, using base 10 apparatus.
Practise adding a two-digit number and a teens number. Make up some number sentences of your own.
Lesson 3: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add and know the words which are used when adding
add teens numbers
understand that adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
My friend and I each have some money. Together we have 20p. How much could we each have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be adding teens numbers together.
Educational Challenges
Add teens numbers together. Use the numbers 11–15. Break into tens and units.
Add teens numbers together. Break into tens and units.
Add larger teens numbers together. Break into tens and units.
Lesson 2: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
know words used in adding
add by partitioning into ‘5 and a bit’
recombine the numbers.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit with children you do not normally work with. On your table is a pen and a big piece of paper. The leader is in charge of the pen.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to continue with our ‘5 and a bit’ work and use it to help us with addition.
Educational Challenges
Work in threes.Take it in turns to throw the dice. Total the three throws using the ‘5 and a bit’ strategy.
Work in pairs. Practise adding number sentences using the ‘5 and a bit’ strategy.
Work in pairs. Practise adding number sentences using the ‘5 and a bit’ strategy.
Lesson 1: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
use words about adding
add by partitioning
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
I am thinking of a number. I will give you a clue. What ways can you use to guess?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to break some numbers up into ‘5 and a bit’ to help us with our addition.
Educational Challenges
Solve ‘5 and a bit’ problems.
Differentiate by using different numbers
Lesson 5: Week 2
Title Place Value and Ordering
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers up to and over 100
know what each digit means
use words for comparing and ordering numbers
order numbers up to and over 100.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit with people you do not normally work with. Choose a number with up to three digits and write it down on a piece of paper. Hold it up if it answers my questions.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to compare and order numbers.
Educational Challenges
Order numbers.
Differentiate by different numbers.
Lesson 4: Week 2
Title Place Value and Ordering
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers up to and over 100
know what each digit means
use words for comparing and ordering numbers
order numbers up to and over 100.
Mental Warm Up:
Ten children will be given a number card between 0 and 100. What is the number on the card?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to make some numbers and then order them.
Educational Challenges Make two-digit numbers by combining 3, 5 and 9.
Make two-digit numbers by combining 3, 5 and 9. Put the numbers in order.
Try making and ordering two-digit numbers and three-digit numbers.
Lesson 3: Week 2
Title Place Value
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers to 100 and over
know what each digit in a number means.
Mental Warm Up:
What numbers can we make if there are three beads in the tens place on an abacus?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to investigate different numbers that we could make on an abacus.
Educational Challenges
Investigate which two-digit numbers you can make with six beads and an abacus.
Investigate which two-digit numbers you can make with six beads and an abacus.
Investigate which three-digit numbers you can make with six beads and an abacus.
Lesson 2:
Week 2
Title Place Value
Learning Objective:
what a digit is
what each digit in a number means
to represent numbers as tens and ones.
Mental Warm Up:
If I chose a number between 20 and 28, what number could it be?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to use different ways to represent numbers.
Educational Challenges
Show three ways of representing numbers using different apparatus. Try a number greater than 100.
Show three ways of representing numbers using different apparatus.
Show three-digit numbers using different sets of apparatus.
Lesson 1: Week 2
Title Place Value
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers in figures and words.
Mental Warm Up:
Playing Bingo with numbers
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to practise reading numbers in figures and words.
Educational Challenges
Read out number word cards. Your partner must write the figure. Swap roles.
Match words to figures. Practise writing figures for words and words for figures.
Make some number word cards for the rest of the class to read out and write the figure.
Lesson 3: Week 1
Title Number Sequences
Learning Objective:
count on or back in steps
describe number patterns
continue number patterns
make predictions.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit in a circle. Collect a card between 0 and 30. Stand up if you have number cards 1, 4, 7 and 10. What is the next number? Stand up if you have the number.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to look at some number patterns and work out the rule.
Educational Challenges
Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Write the number sequences.
Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Write the number sequences.
Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Make up a pattern for a friend using a two-step rule.
Lesson 2: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective:
count on and back in steps
describe a number pattern
continue a number pattern
make predictions.
Mental Warm Up:
Start from the start number. Count back in steps of ten when I clap my hands.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to count on in steps of different sizes using some grids.
Educational Challenges
Shade the first number on a 4 x 4 grid and count on in fours. Do the same for a 5 x 5 grid and a 6 x 6 grid.
Does the pattern look the same?
Count on in steps of 4 on different-sized grids. Explain the pattern.
Count on in steps of 4 on different-sized grids. Predict the pattern.
Lesson 1: Week 1
Title Number Sequences
Learning Objective:
count on and back in steps of 10
describe and continue a sequence
make up a number pattern.
Mental Warm Up:
Today you are going to complete a mapping diagram with a ‘+10’ rule.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be looking at sequences of numbers that have been made by counting on or back in steps of 10 or 1.
Educational Challenges Use cubes or beads in two colours to make a number sequence. Use the ‘+10’ or ‘–10’ rule.
Make a pattern using cubes or beads in two colours. Use the ‘+10’ or ‘–10’ rule.
Think of a way to show a sequence that has got hundreds in it.
As my Anti-bullying posters (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/10-free-anti-bullying-week-posters-for-every-classroom-download-and-share-today-11168376) proved so popular, I thought I would continue the series and create a set of motivational maths posters. You could add them to the classroom or all around the school. The would make an excellent resource for International Mathematics day, Pi day or any other numeracy day.
If you like these resources, please click the heart on this page to get informed of when I upload my next set of FREE poster resources.
Please also take the time to say something nice about these resources as you can imagine, they take a long time to make and nice comments motivate me to make more of them!