Struggling with bar modelling and finding multiplication and division tasks which do more than test you students calculation skills? These activities encourage lots of talk, lots of reasoning and provide examples of your students fluency with calculation skills. They are also an excellent way for students to show their understanding of Concrete, Abstract and Pictorial representations of the process of division and multiplication.

A bundle of resources to help with reasoning and visual representations of fractions. Learning Objectives covered: Show using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators. Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator up to one whole. Find pairs of fractions that add up to a whole. Solve fraction problems using what I know so far about fractions.

I have used these resources this week to introduce grid method of multiplication and build on advice from White Rose Hub resources. Pack includes initial discussion prompt, 5 days of talk-time activities (or 2 lessons worth of questions), and a matching activity to assess pupil understanding and reasoning skills.

A bundle of 11 Place Value activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents (includes negative numbers). Perfect for lesson starters to encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them, means you always have written evidence of students problem solving and reasoning skills! Presented in easy to photocopy format, with 4 or 2 activities to a page. Learning Outcomes included are: LO - Recognise the place value of each digit in a 4-digit number (Yr. 4 - Problem solving) LO - Solve number and practical problems with number and place value, with increasingly large positive numbers (Yr. 4 - Problem Solving & Fluency) LO: Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers (Yr. 4 Problem Solving & Fluency) LO - Solve problems including missing number problems, using place value and more complex addition and subtraction (Yr. 4 Problem Solving & Reasoning) LO - Find 1000 more or less than a given number (Yr. 4 Problem Solving & Reasoning) LO - Count in multiples of 1000`s through negative numbers (Yr. 4 Fluency)

A set of 10 Time related problems. Great for starters, to prompt reasoning and discussion, and also gather evidence of fluency skills. Includes concept cartoons and Roman Numerals Learning objectives covered: LO: To tell the time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3) LO: Convert between analogue and 12-hour digital clocks (Fluency – Yr. 3) LO: To know the number of seconds in a minute. (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3) LO: To know the number of days in the month and months in a year. (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3) LO: Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals (Fluency & Reasoning – Yr. 3)

Inspired by Nrich & White Rose hub materials this is a bundle of 11 different problem solving activities, to practice working systematically. I have been using them as starters to get discussion and reasoning flowing, and to collect and share different ways of setting out problems.

A bundle of 10 talk time activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents. Perfect for lesson starters to encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them means you always have written evidence of students reasoning skills! Set out in easy to photocopy format, 4 to a page. Learning Objectives included: LO: Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines. LO: Identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle. LO: Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn.

Ten rounding activities, including rounding of decimals, with reasoning and problem solving. Use them to start every maths lesson, encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them means you always have written evidence of students reasoning skills! Set out in easy to photocopy format, 4 to a page (sometimes 2 to a page). Learning Outcomes included are: LO - Solve problems involving rounding (Yr. 4 – Fluency & problem solving) LO – To round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 (Yr. 4 – Fluency) LO – To round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 (Yr. 4 – Reasoning) LO – To be able to reason on rounding facts known (Yr. 4 - Reasoning) LO - Solve problems involving rounding decimals (Yr. 4 – Problem Solving & reasoning)

This is a week of planning and resources - all tasks are pre-assessments of LO`s covered in Year 2 to be sure all gaps are covered before you move onto the Year 3 objectives. Task inspired by NCETM mastery materials. Learning Objectives covered: LO: To add fractions with the same denominator. (Yr. 3) LO: To count in fractions up to 10, starting from any number and using the ½ and 2/4 equivalence. (Yr. 2) LO: Recognise, find, name and write fractions as 1/3, ¼, 2/4 and ¾ of a length, shape or set of objects or quantity. (Yr. 2) LO: recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity (Yr. 1)

A bundle of 10 Fraction activities inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery and Reasoning documents. I have included some Year 2 objectives to allow for quick assessment of previous objectives taught. Perfect for lesson starters to encourage discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them, means you always have written evidence of students problem solving and reasoning skills! Presented in easy to photocopy format, with 4 activities to a page.

A bundle of 10 Multiplication and Place Value talk time activities inspired by NCETM Maths Fluency and Reasoning documents. Perfect for lesson starters to encouraging discussion and reasoning between students AND as a cheeky bonus, using them means you always have written evidence of students reasoning skills! Set out in easy to photocopy format, 4 to a page (sometimes 6 to a page). Learning Objectives included: LO – To count from 0 in multiples of 50. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – To count from 0 in multiples of 4. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – To count from 0 in multiples of 8. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO - Find 10 more or 10 less than a given number. (Fluency Yr. 3) LO - Compare and order numbers up to 1000. (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (Reasoning Yr. 3) LO – Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts and place value. (Reasoning Yr. 3)

Use these Maths style starters to keep the GPS skills simmering in your class. Contains 10 activities to practice and perfect when to use a or an . L.O. from the 2015 NC - Use of the forms a or an according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or a vowel.

16 activities to help your class count on in tenths, and recognize and use fractions on a number-line. This includes 15 exercises investigating fractions on a number-line, including some concept cartoons to encourage student reasoning. Plus an additional snap/matching game, matching fractions to number-lines to diagrams.

A pack of 10 concept cartoons to promote reasoning on geometry topics, which can be used to provoke thinking, highlight common misconceptions, assess understanding or to promote mathematical discussion. This pack can be used as a whole class discussion piece, or individually with students recording their reasoning in their maths journals or books (Each example is repeated in an easy to photocopy, 4 to a page format, for individual student work). Learning Objectives covered in this pack: • Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines. • Recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them. • Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn. • Identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle. • Describe the properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes using accurate language, including lengths of lines and acute and obtuse for angles greater or lesser than a right angle. (Non- statutory guidance) • Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations (Yr. 4 LO)

Everything you need for your reciprocal reading unit, contains over 20 differentiated activities organized into the 5 reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Questions, Infer, plus addition GPS activities. No cutting - just print and go! Detailed planning for each day matching Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014).

No need to spend hours prepping for your reciprocal reading unit this week, this pack contains everything you need. No pre- cutting required – just print and go, and in line with Covid-19 concerns, all activities can be completed independently. This pack contains 20 differentiated activities organized into the reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Question, plus an addition GPS activity. Detailed planning matches the Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014).

Everything you need for your reciprocal reading unit, contains over 20 differentiated activities organized into the 5 reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Questions, Infer, plus addition GPS activities. No cutting - just print and go! Detailed planning for each day matching Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014).

Everything you need for a reciprocal reading unit on the text Matilda by Roald Dahl. Contains over 20 differentiated activities organized into the reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Questions, Infer, plus addition GPS activities. Detailed planning for each day matching Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014).

Everything you need for your reciprocal reading unit, contains over 20 differentiated activities organized into the 5 reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Questions, Infer, plus addition GPS activities. No cutting - just print and go! Detailed planning for each day matching Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014).

No need to spend hours prepping for your reciprocal reading unit this week. This pack has everything you need! It contains 20 differentiated activities organized into the reciprocal reading focuses - Clarify, Summarize, Predict, Question, plus an addition GPS activity. Detailed planning matches the Learning Objectives from the current NC (2014). No pre- cutting, or prep required – just print and go!