THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ESCAPE ROOM! An all-new fun and silly end of year Christmas activity. The escape room should last approximately an hour and is best suited to primary students in Year 5 or 6. The escape room puzzles use a range of ciphers, puzzles, and mathematical problems, which should provide a fun and unique end of year challenge. The escape room is easy to use, all you have to do is print and go! All of the answers are provided, plus a PowerPoint presentation to explain how it all works. NEW FOR 2020 Also check out our brand new winter solstace Egyptian-themed escape room here Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The British Legion, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also run ecpublishing.co.uk and you can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk

A set of three SATS style question Games based on Arithmetic, Roman numerals and problem solving questions found in the SATs papers - INCLUDES ANSWERS. Can be done as a independent revision activity or used in boosters. Created by a year six teacher (97% maths at and above expected pass rate last year), maths coordinator and deputy head. Used on the afternoon before the 2018 maths SATS tests and updated in 2019. The games allow the teacher to check the mathematics concept with a SATS style questions. This is designed specifically for revision purposes as I have found my class sometimes fail to retain certain mathematical methods or struggle to use what they know to figure out what they don’t. Requires dice and counters. Please click on my name above for loads of maths, reading and writing resources that are aimed at getting the best out of your year 6 class.

A set of Connect 4 Times Tables set to help children learn their tables in a fun way. Includes Tables from 2s to 12s.

Need a quick and easy intervention to support student to learn tables - This booklet is designed to support a student to develop recall of tables through a focused daily minute of recall. The booklet has a pre and post assessment as well as record space to track daily progress. Some students need to use a structured approach to get number facts into their long-term memory – they do not seem to keep them there just by regular use in maths lessons. This booklet can be used to support this process. On each page is a grid with items to prompt the student to say a tables fact. Each day they should count how many oral responses they can give in a minute – and record that on the sheet. The aim is to be able to recall a few more each day. The precision teaching approach works best if the student can do an activity using the content of the page they are currently working on for a few minutes ( 5 to 10) before they do the one-minute timed activity. There are lots of interactive maths sites online e.g. Topmarks: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help – and this is a great way to give student this opportunity in a way that they can do independently. At the end of the booklet is a tables square for reference and some ideas for extension activities.

A blank, printable Gattegno chart that goes from ten millions to thousands so useful for the primary maths curriculum!

Arithmetints colouring puzzles are an ideal way for students to develop and practise their mathematical skills. This unique puzzle aims to embed children’s understanding of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x table facts. Arithmetints puzzles are a flexible resource which can be used for a variety of purposes, including assessment. Each puzzle comes with an answer sheet for easy marking. These puzzles also really brighten up pupils’ workbooks or make a great display.

Arithmetints colouring puzzles are an ideal way for students to develop and practise their mathematical skills. This unique dinosaur puzzle aims to embed children’s understanding of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables facts. Arithmetints puzzles are a flexible resource which can be used for a variety of purposes including assessment. Each puzzle comes with an answer sheet for easy marking. These puzzles also really brighten up pupils’ workbooks or make a great display.

This bundle includes 50 full tests (with 36 questions) to practice with as well as 100 daily arithmetic practices (with ten questions each) for your class. Great for early morning or starters. The daily practices provide the ability to track the children’s confidence in different areas. The full tests look just like the real things and the composition of questions are based on the real thing too. With both the full tests and the daliy practices, there are three different sizes for each test: All the questions on a page (or two on a page for the daily practices). A condensed version when compared to the real tests to save paper but still have that 'real test feel’ A full-sized arithmetic test For the daily practices, the objectives and question types from genuine arithmetic tests have been spread out across sets of ten tests. Ensuring both variety and repetition. With the daily practices, each question fits in an area: Written Multiplication Written Division Written Addition Written Subtraction Mental Multiplication Mental Division Mental Addition Mental Subtraction Multiply/Divide by 10/100/1000 Add Fractions Subtract Fractions Multiply Fractions Divide Fractions Fractions of a Number Order of Operations Percentages For the majority of areas, three levels of questions have been provided. Each test comes with a few questions from each challenge level so some questions are accessible to everyone whilst others will provide a challenge to your most able. For example, with ‘Written Multiplication’, Level 1 includes two digits x one digit or three digits x one digit, Level 2 includes three digits x two digits and four digits x four digits and Level 3 includes multiplying whole numbers by decimals. Not only that but assessment tracking has also been provided for the daily practices. Each day, the children or you can record on the QLA tracking sheet. This allows you to quickly identify gaps and support children. The sheet allows for identification of what the level of the question was that they struggled with. Great for KS2 SATs preparation and revision. Instructions are provided on how to do this.

This is a Y6 SATs revision Reasoning treasure hunt. I have taken questions from the Reasoning paper samples, and I have rewritten them. There are 24 Green [easy], 24 Yellow [middle] and 24 Red [tricky] questions. I have laminated them and strung them around the school. It was a little light relief for SATs revision and the children loved it. I have also included the answers. Enjoy!

Making Arrays - Year 1 In this KS1 maths teaching resource pupils begin to build arrays and understand the importance of columns and rows. It is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson covering some of the year 1 curriculum objectives in the maths programme of study (Number - number and place value and multiplication and division). Content includes: What is an array explanation Describing arrays activity and worksheet Making arrays and writing the addition sentence activity and worksheet Complete the sentence activity and worksheet Draw the array that represents the repeated addition sentence activity and worksheet Reasoning and problem solving activity and worksheet Further problem solving worksheet with answer sheet ‘Making Arrays - Year 1’ is editable so teachers can adapt the resource to meet their individual teaching needs

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Arithmetints colouring puzzles are an ideal way for students to develop and practise their mathematical skills. This unique puzzle aims to develop children’s knowledge of the 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables. Arithmetints puzzles are a flexible resource which can be used for a variety of purposes, including assessment. Each puzzle comes with an answer sheet for easy marking. These puzzles also really brighten up pupils’ workbooks or make a great display.

Designed for Y5 but useful in Y6. Y5 **LO: Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a 1-digit number using the formal written short division. ** 1. Pottery Lottery. Worksheets Differentiated (3 levels of challenge) 3 pages plus answers. 2. Around the Clock. Worksheets Differentiated (3 levels of challenge) 3 pages plus answers. 3. Short Division Flip Cards. 54 Flip Cards. These cards pose short division questions and have the answers on the back. They are suitable for lots of self-checking partner games or independent work. Print Double Sided Back To Back onto Card. Ideas for use: a. Work with partner and flip when you both have an answer. b. Work on own and ask partner to flip & check your answers. c. Work independently against a timer. d. Make your own Easy, Hard, and Harder Flip Cards. e. Sort the cards into Easy, Hard, Harder piles and explain your reasoning. f. You could edit a couple of cards; giving them the wrong answers and see how long it takes for pupils to spot your “mistakes”. 4. Four In A Line Giraffe Division. 3 Self Checking Partner Games. (No remainders, remainders, remainders as fractions). 5. Missing Digits. Differentiated (3 levels of challenge - no remainders, remainders, remainders as fractions) 3 pages plus answers. 6. Monster Mayhem. 3 Self Checking Partner Games. (No remainders, remainders, remainders as fractions). Maybe enlarge this one to A3.

A power point that contains 40 sets of maths arithmetic challenges. I will be using these as morning work with my year 6 class to provide extra opportunity to practise using the four operations. The questions alternate between straight forward calculations and find the missing digits questions. They are differentiated A-C. A questions do not involve exchanging or carrying and so are ideal for LA or MA/HA to complete mentally. B involves exchanging and carrying and C involved decimals up to three decimal places. Each day has two slides- the questions and then the answers and so are easy for children to self-assess. The title slide says morning work, autumn 1 as this is when I will be using them but this could easily be changed if needed. I aim to create further sets for the rest of the year, as I do I will upload them to TES.

A PowerPoint with starters suitable for KS2. Starters based on riddles, maths and English questions. Number, logic, problem solving, grammar questions. Based on the New Curriculum. These can be used daily during registration or as starters before lessons. These can be worked out independently or in groups and require challenging and critical thinking. In PowerPoint so you can easily adapt if differentiation is required. Extra riddles included at the end of the PowerPoint, If you need any assistance my email is included in the last slide of the PowerPoint. See my shop for more resources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TopmarksEd

I made this fun booklet for my KS2 pupils to practise maths in a ‘real life’ situation based on planning a Christmas party for 200 KS1 pupils. After completing this task, the children actually did plan a party for KS1! They were amazed at the actual cost of the items and gained a real insight into planning for an event. There are 7 tasks in total with a task summary table for pupils to record their summaries at the end of each task. The pupils have a budget of £400 and must make decisions based upon their budget and costs of items such as food and entertainment. Task 1 Party timetable – working out a timetable around set times. Task 2 Total cost of food for 200 children. Percentage and fraction of children’s votes for a particular buffet type. Cost per head and total costs. Task 3 Total number of tracks for the whole party. Numbers of tracks for the dancing sessions using multiplication and addition skills. Task 4 The cost and name of the cheapest show. Calculating the actual costs of two shows plus extras and deciding on the cheapest option. Task 5 Total drinks cost for 200 children. Options for drinks and total costs. Task 6 The cheapest option for party hats Task 7 Total cost of all prizes.

This is a worksheet on multiplication for Entry Level 2 students. You may also be interested in: Multiplication AQA Entry Level 2 Maths - 28 Page Workbook This resource has been designed for students working towards the AQA Entry Level Certificate in Maths who are working at Entry Level 2. It contains an age-appropriate, 28 page workbook with progress check, study notes,certificate of achievement and answers for multiplication (Component 2: the four operations 2.2). Tasks and activities have been designed to achieve the following outcomes: 2.3 Multiply using single digit whole numbers 2.3 Understand that multiplication is the same as repeated addition 2.4 Use and interpret multiplication in real-life situations for solving problems 2.5 Recall and use multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables AQA Entry Level 3 Maths Bundle The bundle contains 13 workbooks that cover all the components of Entry Level 2. Properties of Numbers Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Mixed Operation Word Problems Estimation Ratio Money Time Measure Geometry Statistics AQA Entry Level 2 Maths Bundle The bundle contains 10 highly visual and age-appropriate workbooks / worksheets with answers, study notes, progress checks and certificates of achievement. In total there are 293 worksheets that cover the entire specification and all the components: Properties of Numbers Operations - Addition to 100 Operations - Subtraction to 100 Multiplication Ratio Money Time Measure Geometry Statistics AQA Entry Level 1 Maths Bundle The bundle contains 10 age-appropriate workbooks with answers, revision notes, progress checks and certificates of achievement. It covers the entire specification and all of the components: Properties of Numbers –Numbers to 20 Workbook Addition and Subtraction to 20 Fractions – Halves Money Time Measures: Length and Height Measures: Weight Measures: Volume Geometry: Shape, Size, Position Statistics: Line Graphs, Bar Graphs More Entry Level Maths Resources Entry Level English Resources

This is a worksheet on multiplying and dividing whole numbers (and some decimals) by 10, 100, 1000. Pupils should be encouraged to use place value grids and counters to help them understand what happens. The worksheets works through some quite basic fluency to more reasoning and problem solving questions that test a deeper understanding of the concept.

Beat the Clock game. Excellent starter, especially if you want them to settle down really quick, I normally put 10 minutes on the stop watch. They then have to complete the questions as quickly as possible they then mark down the time they finish and as a class we mark them. Pupils can try and improve their score and time each time. You can easily change it so it can include decimals to make it more challenging.

A nice simple worksheet for students to use for shading in bars to see fractions which are equivalent. Perfect for primary and secondary mathematics lessons. This activity is especially nice for the more visual learners, and those who find it more difficult to conceptualize mathematics. This resource includes a rainbow-colored “fraction wall” for students to refer to. This wall is helpfully the same width as the bars for the examples and the questions. All parts of the resource are easily editable. It had a dyslexic-friendly font and can be printed on any color paper without loss of aesthetic. This is also a nice time to introduce to the students the idea of the “part to whole” relationship that fractions indicate. As always, if you do choose to download this resource, thank you, and please leave feedback for any improvements I could make to it.