My new thing in class is not to introduce work but rather start at the end, with a quiz. Can they remember what they’ve learnt previously? Can they discover the concepts on their own? Let’s guess / infer together? We can get it wrong, but let’s try. (Metacognition) This fractions game isn’t straight forward. The halves are pictured as 3/6, 2/4 etc. so this would be the next step on from simply naming fractions. It’s an introduction to equivalent fractions (1/2 and 1/3). The game is interactive, with the aim of popping all of the bubbles. Press a bubble to choose a question. Press the correct answer on the question slide and you return to the question screen with your bubble popped. Press a wrong answer and it simply shakes. Keep going until you choose the correct one. You can keep a record of the scores when the presentation is active by typing them in yourself on the question screen. It is also possible to name the teams in the same way.

Days of the week balloons as A4 clip arts. Ready to print and display. Enjoy!

7 balwn dyddiau'r wythnos yn barod i argraffu. Gellir fewnosod y lluniau i ddogfen word i addasu'r meintiau cyn argraffu.

6 enjoyable snap games focusing on two elements at a time e.g. fractions to decimals, starting with easier matches e.g. ½ and 0.5 and increasing in complexity. The first three games are targeted for level 4 (big maths too) and the last three are level 5 questions. The pupils click on two choices, which are then revealed. If they are incorrect, they need to reset the board. If they are correct, they may continue until they match two incorrect tiles. The game needs instruction initially, as with the limits of PowerPoint, it will not say if the matches are correct or not. They can be used as a fun introduction, plenary or independent games. The games will work on an iPad that has PowerPoint. The game can be sent to the iPad as an email attachment or through Dropbox / Google Drive and opened with PowerPoint. There is one larger version with sound and a smaller version without. Both have the same questions.

Start or end lessons with this fun interactive whiteboard quiz. QUESTIONS ARE ONLY GIVEN AS EXAMPLES. Choose YOUR OWN 6 questions to test their knowledge and type the questions, two incorrect answers and the correct answer on the slides prior to the lesson. You can also delete the title text (Back to school quiz) and insert your own to re-use the presentation over and over for different topics. Use this quiz as both an interesting introduction or successful plenary. Pupils click on a bowling pin which takes them straight to a question with two wrong answers and one correct answer. When they click on the bowling ball next to the incorrect answer it shakes to show that it was incorrect. When they click on a correct answer it links back to the bowling pins and their pin shoots up in the air. I hope you enjoy your pimped up introduction or plenary as much as my class do.

9 statements regarding digital competence / citizenship health and wellbeing.

Huge bundle of digital papers and frames to pimp your work. 9 frames to insert into PowerPoint presentations or worksheets. 10 gingham digital papers to insert as images or to use to fill shapes with the insert>picture feature. 17 striped digital papers. These have been used to create certificates that are sold separately at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/certificates-11689927. Please note, the file comes as a compressed zip folder. If you use the papers or frames to create items to sell, please ensure that the images are locked and cannot be removed and re-used by others e.g. cut and paste. Thanks. Enjoy!

A huge choice of 40 certificates ready to print or easily edited. One document is locked as a PDF, ready to print. The other is editable in PowerPoint so that you can change or personalise the achievement. The background digital papers and borders are available to buy separately to pimp your worksheets / presentations at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-papers-and-frames-11690165.

10 sets of fact family triangles (tables 2 – 10). 12 fact family worksheets (tables 2 – 12).

10 paged Powerpoint to find the missing weight that makes 100g each time. Created to introduce missing digits and mathematical reasoning skills. The connection should be made between the weights and a missing digit sentence e.g. 35 + __ = 100. It also enables you to compare 100 = __ + 35 and the validity of both. I recommend that you use my Mr 100 to find the 100 number bonds, but then I would!

I created this interactive PowerPoint after using ‘Guess my number’ game in the class which is modelled on the game ‘Guess who’. I use it to solve reasoning questions between 0 and 50 e.g. How many odd numbers are there between 20 and 40? The numbers can be pressed and eliminated when used on an interactive whiteboard. The class love to be chosen to interact with it. I have included 30 question cards in a PDF format but also in a word format, so that you can alter the tables/sums etc.

I’ve used these very successfully with year 5 to introduce a practical application to probability. I recommend that you use coins, dice, dominos and playing cards during the lessons but they can be used just as easily without. You may also have a large dice, dominos or playing cards that you can use to introduce the 4 lessons, or to use with lower abilities. The tasks in order of complexity are; • Coin toss investigation, • Dice roll investigation, • Dominos investigation and • Playing cards investigation.

8 differentiated money worksheets created for year 4. This includes; • Adding money by counting repeating coins, • Adding money ordered largest to smallest, • Adding money in random orders, • Adding decimals (column method), • Reasoning skills from a menu (following pictures), • Adding two 2 digit numbers, • Finding change from £1, £2, £5 and/or £10, • Money word problems (not differentiated but gets harder). There is a differentiated ‘First to spend £10’ game and a laminate to use with lower abilities (to use a whiteboard pen).

4 PowerPoints to use alongside the Big Maths clic sessions. I also use them as whiteboard sessions at the beginning of Maths lessons. They get progressively harder from the first to last. There are 4 pages to each PowerPoint which are suitable for year 1 upwards.

4 PowerPoints to use alongside the Big Maths clic sessions. I also use them as whiteboard sessions at the beginning of Maths lessons. They get progressively harder from the first to last. There are 4 pages to each PowerPoint which are suitable for year 4/5 upwards.

4 PowerPoints to use alongside the Big Maths clic sessions. I also use them as whiteboard sessions at the beginning of Maths lessons. They get progressively harder from the first to last, ending up introducing decimals. There are 5 pages to each PowerPoint which are suitable for year 1/2 upwards.

4 PowerPoints to use alongside the Big Maths clic sessions. I also use them as whiteboard sessions at the beginning of Maths lessons. They get progressively harder from the first to last, breaking the tens barrier twice by the end. There are 5 pages to each PowerPoint which are suitable for year 1 upwards (or consolidating / introducing to older years).

Mathematical reasoning has been brought into focus with the poor results of the PISA tests. These 5 investigations focus on re-ordering work with emphasis on a given set of options. They are ultimately suited to year 3 but without prior investigation work, I’ve used these successfully in my year 4 class. I would advise using equipment/resources to spark interest in the task. Each investigation has an extension which is a level above the problem for those children who are capable learners already. This assists classroom management, where high achievers can be disengaged when problems seem obvious to them. There is also vocabulary specific to re-ordering work, to assist the teacher in promoting the language and therefore facilitate progress.

4 PowerPoints to use alongside the Big Maths clic sessions. I also use them as whiteboard sessions at the beginning of Maths lessons. Although I prefer to use column methods to add money, this technique will introduce and consolidate the relationship between pounds and pence. There are 4 pages to each PowerPoint which I have been using in year 4, but are suitable for other ages.

4 PowerPoints to use alongside the Big Maths clic sessions. I also use them as whiteboard sessions at the beginning of Maths lessons. They get progressively harder from the first to last, breaking the tens barrier twice by the end. There are 4 pages to each PowerPoint which I have been using in year 4, but are suitable for other ages.