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Year 7 Maths Unit 2: Number skills – Complete Unit (10 Lessons, Worksheets, Assessment & Answers)

SHORT SUMMARY (resource summary box)
The complete Year 7 Unit 2 Number skills: 10 fully editable lessons (684 teaching slides), 10 differentiated worksheets (83 questions), 49 GCSE-style exam questions with mark schemes, a 40-mark end-of-unit assessment with worked solutions, and full answers.

DESCRIPTION
Everything you need to teach Year 7 Unit 2 Number skills, from mental methods and BIDMAS through written methods for all four operations, money and time, negative numbers, factors, multiples, primes and square numbers, finishing with prime factor decomposition. Every lesson follows the same clear routine, so students know what to expect and cover teachers can pick it up straight away.

The 10 lessons
• Lesson 1: Mental maths
• Lesson 2: Addition and subtraction
• Lesson 3: Multiplication
• Lesson 4: Division
• Lesson 5: Money and time
• Lesson 6: Negative numbers
• Lesson 7: Factors, multiples and primes
• Lesson 8: Square numbers
• Lesson 9: Check and strengthen: calculations
• Lesson 10: Strengthen and extend: number properties

In every lesson
• A PowerPoint with timings and voice levels on every slide, a hidden teacher and cover notes slide, and optional “more practice” slides
• Do Now (four retrieval questions) and prior knowledge checks for mini-whiteboards, with answers on click
• New material followed by I do → We do → You do for each key idea
• Quick practice in books, from supported to challenge
• A differentiated Word worksheet: Mild (step-by-step), Medium (hints), Hot (no hints) and a Finished? extension challenge
• GCSE-style exam questions with a mark scheme labelled M1, A1, B1, P1 and C1
• Solutions slides after every level, full teacher answers and an exit ticket

Across the unit
• 684 teaching slides
• 83 worksheet questions plus extension challenges
• 49 GCSE-style exam questions worth 91 marks
• A 40-mark, 50-minute non-calculator end-of-unit assessment, with a topic grid on the front cover, a mark scheme and full worked solutions

Why teachers like it
• Each lesson is planned for 2 hours and easy to cut to 1 hour (instructions on the hidden teacher slide)
• Every table and diagram is editable: change any number in seconds
• Consistent, uncluttered design with a lesson tracker on every title slide
• Short, simple file names that open on any school network

Lessons 9 and 10 are check, strengthen and extend lessons; Lesson 10 introduces prime factor decomposition (a key GCSE skill).

Files: 10 PowerPoint (.pptx) and 12 Word (.docx) files. Fonts: Open Sans (free).

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