‘Big Maths, Beat That!’ is an assessment tool that allows teachers to see exactly what their children know and what they don’t know.
It provides children with a fun and motivational way to track their own progress and set their own targets for maths.
Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.
Three different challenges based on child’s ability.
Investigation included to further challenge children’s conceptual understanding.
Calculation lessons completed once a week.
There are five PowerPoints:
Week 1- Number line addition
Week 2- Number line subtraction
Week 3- Place value
Week 4- Addition strategies
Week 5- Subtraction strategies
These Maths STEM sentence starters are a prompt for children to use when discussing their maths.
The sentence starters provide the children an opportunity to share what they have observed and understood about their learning. This allows you to assess children’s level of understanding.
PowerPoint- examples of worded problems to complete together.
What operation will we be using? How do you know? Model the process and how to double check your answer using the inverse.
Three different challenges (dependent on child’s ability) to complete.
Challenge 1- read the properties and write down what shape has been described using the word bank to support (triangle, square, rectangle and circle).
Challenge 2- read the properties and match this to the correct shape (triangle, square, rectangle, circle, hexagon, pentagon and semi-circle).
Reasoning and problem solving activity has also been included.