Here at Head Start, I care about providing you with quality resources that are simple and effective to use in the classroom. Resources currently focus on the 7-14 age range (KS2-KS3), specifically looking at the Number aspects of the curriculum, but watch this space for new resources coming your way weekly! These resources could also be used for Cover, Homework, Intervention, or Private Self Study.
Here at Head Start, I care about providing you with quality resources that are simple and effective to use in the classroom. Resources currently focus on the 7-14 age range (KS2-KS3), specifically looking at the Number aspects of the curriculum, but watch this space for new resources coming your way weekly! These resources could also be used for Cover, Homework, Intervention, or Private Self Study.
This HEAD START bundle is designed to practice key mathematical skills and challenge current levels of understanding to support with the transition from Year 6 to Year 7.
All questions are designed to follow the National Curriculum for England.
Suitable for students in Year 6 - 7 transition in class / homework / private study
Each resource / activity is designed to help students recognise their strengths, and areas for development within Number, specifically:
Adding numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.
Subtracting numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.
Adding whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column addition).
Subtracting whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column subtraction).
Solving addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
A description and suggestions on how to use each resource / activity along with a few hints and tips and differentiation strategies, are provided on the final page of each document for some inspiration, however, these are designed to be flexible and so feel free to adapt for your own requirements.
Answers to all resources / activities are provided.
All Head Start End of Topic Tests (EoTT) for the following Number and Place Value Objectives:
3N1b: count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
3N2a: compare and order numbers up to 1,000 read and write numbers to 1,000 in numerals and in words
3N2b: fnd 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
3N3: recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)
3N4: identify, represent and estimate numbers using diferent representations
4N1: count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000
4N2a: order and compare numbers beyond 1,000
4N2b: find 1,000 more or less than a given number
4N3a: recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones)
4N3b: read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C)
5N1: count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000
5N2: read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000
5N3a: determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1,000,000
5N3b: read Roman numerals to 1,000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals
6N2: read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000
6N3: determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 10,000,000
These tests could also be used as a homework, cover, or revision.
This activity is designed to practice:
solving problems involving factors and square numbers
Description of Activity:
Students should complete the table by writing all the factor pairs, listing the factors, and then writing the number of factors for each original number. Each original number in the table is a square number.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in class / homework / private study.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Subtracting whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (column subtraction)
Description of Activity:
Students should complete each calculation individually using a formal written method of their choice (e.g. column subtraction) and write their answers on the answer line provided.
Each question is progressively more challenging.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress
Suitable for Year 6 to 7 transition in class / homework / private study
All answers are provided.
Differentiation strategies including teaching hints and tips included.
Students play this game in pairs. Each pair has two piles of shuffled cards: Percentage Cards and Amount Cards. Before students select their cards in each round, they must decide whether the answer which is Higher or Lower is the winner. Each player then takes a percentage card and an amount card from each pile. Both players work out their percentage of their amount and check their opponent’s answer. The player who has the higher (or lower) answer as determined before the cards were chosen wins and keeps the cards. When one pile is empty, the player with the most cards wins.
Description of Activity:
Students should colour in / highlight the correct values within each grid and answer any questions that follow.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers provided
This activity is designed to practice:
interpreting negative numbers in context, counting forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero.
Description of Activity:
Students are to calculate with negative numbers in real life contexts including temperature, car parks / stairs and money and write their answers in the space provided.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and Teaching Hints and Tips provided.
All answers provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
Establishing whether a number up to 100 is prime.
Description of Activity:
Students should be handed a 1-100 number square. Circle the number 2 then cross out all the other multiples of 2. Circle 3 then cross out all the other multiples of 3. 4 is already crossed out so circling the next number would be 5; cross out all the other multiples of 5. Continue this process until the final number is circled (97).
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers are provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
identifying multiples and factors
Description of Activity:
Students should work their way across each maze by following the path using only the required number properties.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Suitable for students in class / homework / private study
Differentiation strategies and teaching hints and tips provided.
All answers are provided.
Negative Number Sequences
This activity is designed to practice:
count backwards through 0 including negative numbers
Description of Activity:
Students roll the 10-sided dice twice (see printable resource). The first roll is the starting number, and the second roll is the step count backwards. Students can then complete the answer grid (an example is provided). The more correct numbers they generate, the greater the number of points they receive. This game can be played in pairs with the first player to complete their grid being the winner.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and Teaching Hints and Tips provided.
This activity is designed to practice:
adding and subtracting with negative numbers
Description of Activity:
Students complete each diamond by adding the two squares next to each other to get the square above and subtracting the two squares together to get the square below. See example.
Use the RAG analysis to track progress.
Differentiation strategies and Teaching Hints and Tips provided.
All answers provided.
A wide range of around 45 of the most useful (and free) printables including:
Coordinate axes (L and +)
Digit Cards
Multiplication Grids (10x10 and 12x12)
Dice (6- and 10-sided)
Venn Diagrams (2 and 3 set)
Game Boards (Chess and Snakes and Ladders)
Clock Faces (12 and XII)
Blank Grids (8x8 to 24x24)
Now including statistical graphs and charts:
Bar Charts
Pie Charts
Scatter Graphs
Tally Charts
Watch out for even more free printables coming soon!
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This Prime Numbers List from 1-100 can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Prime numbers appear regularly in the maths curriculum. Mainly students need to be able to recognise them but they can also be useful when thinking about divisibility, factors and multiples and prime factors.
Suggested uses:
Print individual copies to stick into exercise books
Print and laminate to use as a mini whiteboard (with a pen)
Crop the image into a slideshow presentation
Crop the image into an interactive slide
Print, laminate and pin to a display board
BONUS ACTIVITY:
Create a piece of artwork that represents the prime numbers up to 20 or 100. Explain how this helps you remember the prime numbers to your partner / the class.
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
These blank 2- and 3-set Venn diagrams can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Venn diagrams are introduced and used throughout the curriculum for sorting, interpreting data, and cardinality.
Suggested uses:
Print individual copies to cut out / stick into exercise books and write on
Print and laminate the large Venn diagrams to use as a mini whiteboard (with a pen)
Crop the diagrams into a slideshow presentation
Crop the image into an interactive slide
Print, enlarge, laminate and pin to a display board
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
This chess board can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Chess is an accessible game that practices many areas of the curriculum from translation, alpha-numeric coordinates, using key terminology around number, and shape. It also helps to develop learning skills such as following instructions and memorising rules.
Suggested uses:
Print and laminate to use as a gameboard between pairs
Crop the image into a slideshow presentation
Crop the image into an interactive slide
Print, laminate and pin to a display board
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
This negative number line can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Many areas of the curriculum require knowledge of negative numbers including the four operations, real life problems with negative numbers, order of operations and ordering numbers.
From my experience, vertical negative number lines can encourage a deeper understanding of the concepts of operations with negative numbers, as well as their application to more real life problems such as temperature, where the scale is usually vertical.
Suggested uses:
Print out each A4 page and cut out each diagram. Stick each diagram together using the tab to create a large vertical display of negative numbers.
Note: Each diagram is around 20cm tall so printing full size will extend over 2m. If this is too large, print 2 pages per page.
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
These 0-9 digit cards can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Practice aspects of the four operations, number bonds, types of number (squares, primes etc) and place value with these versatile cards.
Print / Laminate / Cut out / Use / Keep!
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
These two multiplication tables can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Multiplication of two numbers (repeated addition) is a fundamental skill that is demonstrated through many other parts of the curriculum such as finding the area of a shape, calculations with fractions, working out percentages of an amount, and money problems.
Suggested uses:
Print individual copies to stick into exercise books
Print and laminate to use as a mini whiteboard (with a pen)
Crop the images into a slideshow presentation
Crop the image into an interactive slide
Print, laminate and pin to a display board
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
These dice can be used to facilitate learning both in class and at home.
Add the element of chance into games and other activities that practice many skills across the curriculum including number and calculation, plotting coordinates and translating objects.
Each dice comes with a minimum of three options:
Blank
Dots
Numbers
Other dice include:
Shapes
Roman numerals (coming soon)
0-9 and 1-10 numbered dice
This resource is part of the Head Start Ultimate Free Printables Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12934415
