I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
An additional week of place value lessons for students, which focus on place value and addition and subtraction. The lessons all start with a 10 minute mental warm up session, followed by a main class teaching session. The presentations finish with a suggestion of different differentiated teaching activities a student could try.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 3
Title Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: read and write numerals
add and subtract multiples of 10.
Mental Warm Up: Count in steps of 20.
Start from 31.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to work on adding and subtracting in tens.
Educational Challenges Created differentiated versions of Play ‘Bingo’.
Lesson 2: Week 3
Title Place Value and Addition
Learning Objective: add mentally a pair of multiples of 10
read and write numerals
use mental strategies to solve calculations.
Mental Warm Up: If I want to have a total of 10. Adding and subtracting ideas
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to add tens.
Educational Challenges Play ‘Collect the tens’.
Play ‘Collect the tens’ using two dice 1-6.
Play ‘Collect the tens’ without apparatus or hundred squares to help. Start by playing with two dice 1-6.
Lesson 3: Week 3
Title Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: add and subtract multiples of 10 mentally
read and write numerals.
Mental Warm Up: We are going to play bingo again.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to add and subtract tens, finding quick ways to check the answers.
Educational Challenges Pretend to be teachers. Make up your own questions and answers.
Sort out correct / wrong number sentence cards. Make up some of your own.
Sort out correct / wrong number sentence cards. Make up some of your own for class to solve.
Lesson 4: Week 3
Title Place Value and Addition
Learning Objective: add 10 to a two-digit number
add a one-digit number to a multiple of 10
understand and begin to read ‘10 more’
recombine and know what each digit represents.
Mental Warm Up: Look at these sums - Say if they are right or wrong.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to add 10 to different numbers.
Educational Challenges Work in Pairs. Take a 100 square. Count on 10. Colour in square. What do you notice?
Continue working on the ‘10 more monsters’ work.
Work on individual ‘10 more monsters’. Try with multiples of 10 bigger than 100.
Lesson 5: Week 3
Title Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: how to add and subtract
to add and subtract 10 from two-digit numbers
to solve number problems using + and –.
Three lessons looking at the properties of numbers. These lessons were originally created for a major educational publishing house. These lessons look at Counting and properties of numbers. The lessons contain a 10 minute mental warm up, a main, whole class teaching lesson and suggestions for the differentiated challenges students can do.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective: know the names of numbers
recite numbers in order
count a set of objects
check a count by counting in tens.
Mental Warm Up: Count on from 15.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to work on counting.
Educational Challenges Count up the objects in different groups – which was the best way?
Count up the number of objects in one handful.
Check your partner’s answers by grouping them in tens.
Lesson 2: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective: count on or back in steps of 1, 2, 5 and 10
begin to recognise familiar multiples.
Mental Warm Up: Match the pairs of numbers that total 10.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to count in steps of different sizes.
Educational Challenges Count in steps of 5 or 10. Use ‘Sammy Snake’ to cover up numbers.
Count in steps of 1 on a 10 x 10 grid up to 50 first. Continue to 100 if time.
Count in steps of 2 or 5, recording the number on the 10 x 10 grid.
Lesson 3: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective: count a set of objects and know this number always stays the same
count in steps of 2, 5 and 10
begin to recognise familiar multiples.
Mental Warm Up: Count in steps of 2.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to count objects by grouping them in different ways.
Educational Challenges Take a handful of objects to count in groups of ones, twos and tens. Record results.
Draw some spots for a partner to count and check by grouping in different ways.
Draw some spots or collect some objects. Challenge a friend to find out how many by grouping them.
Five complete PowerPoint lessons about Fractions, Decimals and Money. The lessons start off with a mental warm up, then a complete interactive, whole class explanation of what the students need to learn in this lesson, followed by a differentiated student learning challenge.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 11
Title Multiplying Two Numbers
Learning Objective: understand that multiplication problems can be represented as an array
understand that multiplication can be carried out in any order
use the ‘x’ sign.
Lesson 2: Week 11
Title Money and 'Real-Life' Problems
Learning Objective: recognise and name coins
begin to understand decimal notation for money
calculate totals and explain ways of working
predict highest and lowest possible totals.
Lesson 3: Week 11
Title Decimal Notation and Change from a Pound
Learning Objective: recognise and name the coins
find the largest and smallest amount
begin to understand decimal notation
work out how much change to give.
Lesson 4: Week 11
Title Money and 'Real-Life' Problems
Learning Objective: add up money and give correct change
decide if to add or subtract
say how we worked it out
check our results are correct.
Lesson 5: Week 11
Title Fractions
Learning Objective: understand what a ‘half’ and ‘quarter’ are
recognise halves of different shapes
count the number of halves and quarters
know fractions are equal parts.
Five Complete PowerPoint Lessons about Time, Length and Measures. The lessons start with a 10 minute fun mental warm up, followed by a main, highly interactive, whole class lesson, and ends with differentiated learning challenges for the students.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 12
Title Time
Learning Objective: use the words to describe time
know how long a day, week, month and year is
order the months of the year
be able to relate months to a particular season.
Lesson 2: Week 12
Title Time
Learning Objective: use words to describe time
know how long it takes to do something
know how many seconds in a minute
know how many minutes in an hour
understand speed and time
estimate.
Lesson 3: Week 12
Title Length and Problem Solving
Learning Objective: solve a problem involving length
explain how you did it
estimate and check your work.
Lesson 4: Week 12
Title Length, Making Decisions and Checking Results
Learning Objective: solve a problem involving length
measure using centimetres
find the half of measurements.
Lesson 5: Week 12
Title Time, Making Decisions and Checking Results
Learning Objective: solve a problem involving time
explain the work and record the answers
change units of time.
Five complete PowerPoint lessons about Addition and Subtraction. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up. This is followed by a whole class, interactive, learning session. The lesson finishes with a set of differentiated learning challenges for the students.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: add
use words about adding
add by partitioning
use patterns of similar calculations.
Lesson 2: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: add
know words used in adding
add by partitioning into ‘5 and a bit’
recombine the numbers.
Lesson 3: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: add and know the words which are used when adding
add teens numbers
understand that adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Lesson 4: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: add
use the words to describe adding
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
know adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Lesson 5: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective: add and use words to do with adding
add a teens number to a two-digit number
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
understand that addition can be carried out in any order
find pairs of numbers that make a given total
use patterns of similar calculations.
Five complete PowerPoint lessons looking at Mass and shape and space. The lessons all start with a fun mental warm up. This is followed by an interactive, whole class learning session. The lessons finish with a fun differentiated learning challenge.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 5
Title Mass
Learning Objective: solve measurement problems
use words about mass and ways of measuring weight
measure using non-standard units
compare weights
estimate and measure.
Lesson 2: Week 5
Title Mass
Learning Objective: use and begin to read words about mass
compare different masses.
Lesson 3: Week 5
Title Mass
Learning Objective: use and begin to use words about mass
suggest and use simple measuring equipment
develop estimating skills.
Lesson 4: Week 5
Title Mass
Learning Objective: solve measurement problems
understand and use words about mass
measure and compare using standard units.
Lesson 5: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: recognise and describe how to turn things
recognise half and quarter turns to the left or right
understand the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Here are five great PowerPoint lessons about addition, subtraction, and money. The lessons all start with a mental warm up activities. Then the students complete an interactive whole class learning session together. The lessons end with a differentiated learning challenge.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 8
Title Counting and properties of numbers
Learning Objective: recognise odd and even numbers
investigate number problems and puzzles
explain methods, reasoning and relationships.
Lesson 2: Week 8
Title Counting and properties of numbers
Learning Objective: recognise odd and even numbers
devise and continue a number pattern
describe a pattern
Lesson 3: Week 8
Title Counting and properties of numbers
Learning Objective: recognise and continue or complete number patterns
describe a pattern or rule
devise a number pattern
recognise odd and even numbers.
Lesson 4: Week 8
Title Counting and properties of numbers
Learning Objective: recognise odd and even numbers
recognise a pattern
explain what we did.
Lesson 5: Week 9
Title Addition, Mental Calculation, Place Value
Learning Objective: understand the language of addition.
begin to add 9 or 11 by adding 10 and changing the number by 1.
begin to add 19 or 21 by adding 20 and changing the number by 1.
Five full PowerPoint presentations about teaching time. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up. Then the students participate in a full, whole class, interactive learning session. The students end the lesson by completing a differentiated learning challenge.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 11
Title Time
Learning Objective: use and understand words about time
solve simple problems relating to time.
Lesson 2: Week 11
Title Time
Learning Objective: use and understand words about time
read the time to the o’clock and half past on different types of clock
solve simple problems relating to time.
Lesson 3: Week 11
Title Time
Learning Objective: use and understand words about time
read the time to half and quarter hours
understand digital clocks
solve simple problems about time.
Lesson 4: Week 11
Title Time
Learning Objective: use and understand words about time
read the time to half and quarter hours on an analogue and a digital clock
solve simple problems about time.
Lesson 5: Week 11
Title Time
Learning Objective: understand and use words about time
know different units of time
make estimates about time
use the right units of time.
These five complete PowerPoint lessons are focusing on time and capacity. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up session. This is followed by an interactive, whole class learning session. The lesson end with a differentiated learning challenge.
Summer Term
Lesson 1: Week 12
Title Time
Learning Objective: suggest units to estimate time
read the time
understand how to read a digital clock
solve problems relating to time.
Lesson 2: Week 12
Title Time
Learning Objective: read the time
read a digital clock
solve simple time problems.
Lesson 3: Week 12
Title Time
Learning Objective: know the relationship between units of time.
Lesson 4: Week 12
Title Time
Learning Objective: solve simple time word problems
explain how a problem is solved
read the time from clocks.
Lesson 5: Week 12
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: estimate capacities
compare capacities.
Five complete PowerPoint lessons about rounding, estimating, mental calculation strategies and place value. Each of the lessons start with a mental warm up. This is followed by a whole class, interactive learning session. The lesson end with fun differentiated learning challenges.
Summer Term
Lesson 1: Week 9
Title Estimating, Mental Calculation Strategies, Money
Learning Objective: develop ways of adding and subtracting mentally
make sensible estimates
choose and use the correct number operation
know what each coin is worth.
Lesson 2: Week 9
Title Place Value, Mental Calculation Strategies, Money
Learning Objective: total prices
use the correct number operation (+,–)
solve word problems
recognise coins.
Lesson 3: Week 9
Title Place Value, Rounding, Mental Calculation Strategies, and Money
Learning Objective: add and subtract mentally
choose the correct number operation
know what each coin is worth
round to the nearest 10.
Lesson 4: Week 9
Title Mental Calculation Strategies and Money Problems
Learning Objective: add and subtract mentally
choose and use the appropriate number operation
know the value of coins
solve money word problems.
Lesson 5: Week 9
Title Place Value and Ordering, Mental Calculation Strategies and Money
Learning Objective: work out sums mentally
solve problems
know what each coin is worth
order amounts of money.
Count to 10 using Diwali as a focal point.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different numbers and items being shown in each of the photos.
The numbers are first shown in one way, and then mixed up and shown in a different order to consolidate their learning. I added Diwali mandala colouring book to help them further improve their fine motor skills colouring.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Diwali – Counting to 10.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different Diwali – Counting to 10 Lamps.
The photos could also be used to sort numbers or to use them to add or subtract different numbers.
Great Diwali Vocabulary presentation. It is a great resource for presentation about the Diwali.
I added a Diwali colouring book and also a presentation on how you can use these resources to make 31 different teaching resources in the classroom.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different items being shown in each of the photos.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Diwali Key Vocabulary and Story.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different Diwali Key Vocabulary and Story features. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking.
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.
Five complete PowerPoint lessons about Data handling and Venn diagrams. The lessons start off with a fun mental warm up, followed by a highly interactive whole class learning session and ends with a fun set of differentiated learning challenges.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 13
Title Venn Diagrams
Learning Objective: use a Venn diagram
draw a Venn diagram to sort numbers.
Lesson 2: Week 13
Title Using a Venn Diagram to Sort Names
Learning Objective: to record and discuss using a Venn diagram.
Lesson 3: Week 13
Title Handling Data Day 1
Learning Objective: collect, record and interpret information
present the data as a graph
discuss the results.
Lesson 4: Week 13
Title Handling Data Day 2
Learning Objective: collect, record and interpret information
present the data as a graph
discuss the results.
Lesson 5: Week 13
Title Handling Data Day 3
Learning Objective: collect, record and interpret information
present the data as a graph
discuss the results.
Three complete PowerPoint lessons about number sequences. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up, followed by a whole class learning period, and finishes with a set of differentiated learning challenges.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 1
Title Number Sequences
Learning Objective: count on and back in steps of 10
describe and continue a sequence
make up a number pattern.
Mental Warm Up: Today you are going to complete a mapping diagram with a ‘+10’ rule.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to be looking at sequences of numbers that have been made by counting on or back in steps of 10 or 1.
Educational Challenges Use cubes or beads in two colours to make a number sequence. Use the ‘+10’ or ‘–10’ rule.
Make a pattern using cubes or beads in two colours. Use the ‘+10’ or ‘–10’ rule.
Think of a way to show a sequence that has got hundreds in it.
Lesson 2: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective: count on and back in steps
describe a number pattern
continue a number pattern
make predictions.
Mental Warm Up: Start from the start number. Count back in steps of ten when I clap my hands.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to count on in steps of different sizes using some grids.
Educational Challenges Shade the first number on a 4 x 4 grid and count on in fours. Do the same for a 5 x 5 grid and a 6 x 6 grid. Does the pattern look the same?
Count on in steps of 4 on different-sized grids. Explain the pattern.
Count on in steps of 4 on different-sized grids. Predict the pattern.
Lesson 3: Week 1
Title Number Sequences
Learning Objective: count on or back in steps
describe number patterns
continue number patterns
make predictions.
Mental Warm Up: Sit in a circle. Collect a card between 0 and 30. Stand up if you have number cards 1, 4, 7 and 10. What is the next number? Stand up if you have the number.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to look at some number patterns and work out the rule.
Educational Challenges Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Write the number sequences.
Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Write the number sequences.
Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Make up a pattern for a friend using a two-step rule.
These 5 complete PowerPoint lessons will help students to understand data handling. The lessons start with a mental warm up. Then the student will enjoy the interactive, whole class, sessions. The lessons then finish with fun differentiated challenges for the students to complete.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 12
Title Problems Involving Measures
Learning Objective: find solutions to simple mass word problems
understand and use words about mass.
Lesson 2: Week 12
Title Problems Involving Measures
Learning Objective: find solutions to simple mass word problems
explain ways of working
understand and use words about mass.
Lesson 3: Week 12
Title Problems Involving Measures
Learning Objective: find solutions to simple mass word problems
understand and use words about mass
understand equivalence.
Lesson 4: Week 12
Title Handling Data
Learning Objective: solve problems involving collecting, organising and interpreting data
record data using simple tables
explain results.
Lesson 5: Week 12
Title Handling Data
Learning Objective: solve problems involving information
record findings as a block graph
explain results.
Five complete PowerPoint Lessons which focus on the topic of money. The lessons all start with a fun mental warm up. This is followed by the main, whole class, learning session. The lesson ends with a set of differentiated challenges for the students.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective: select and use the right calculation
check our calculations
solve money word problems
find totals.
Lesson 2: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective: solve money word problems
recognise and use different value coins
select the right coins to pay.
Lesson 3: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective: choose and use correct calculations
check calculations
solve money word problems
find totals and give change.
Lesson 4: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective: check calculations
say what each coin is
solve money problems.
Lesson 5: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective: make decisions and check calculations
solve money problems
use the appropriate number operation.
A 3 day set of complete PowerPoint lessons about using and explaining shape and space to children. All the lessons start with a 10 minute mental warm up session. This is followed by the main whole class lesson, which is highly interactive and helps to focus the student's attention on their learning. At the end of the presentation, the lessons contain differentiated ideas for students to further extend their learning.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 6
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: describe and talk about two-dimensional shapes
name shapes and say what is special about them.
Lesson 2: Week 6
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: understand, use and read words used to describe two-dimensional shapes
sort flat shapes.
Lesson 3: Week 6
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: combine squares to make new shapes
understand what makes each shape special
investigate using squares.
Three great PowerPoint lessons about Shape and Space. The lessons start with a mental warm up. This is followed with a main, interactive whole class learning session. The lesson finishes with a fun set of differentiated learning challenges for the students.
Spring Term
Lesson 1: Week 6
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: recognise and describe turning movements
recognise half and quarter turns to the left or right
understand angle as a measure of turn
recognise right angles.
Lesson 2: Week 6
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: solve problems and recognise patterns
recognise and describe line symmetry
complete symmetrical patterns.
Lesson 3: Week 6
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: solve problems and recognise patterns
recognise and describe line symmetry
complete symmetrical patterns.
Are you teaching counting to 10? This Halloween counting presentation is great fun. The first half of the presentation is with the numbers in order. Then I mixed up the numbers and so the children can count them all again.
As well as teaching the students to count in order and then out of order, I have also included a set of Halloween Themed writing and counting worksheets to use in the class.
I have also added a PowerPoint presentation explaining 31 different teaching activities you could use these picture flashcard for.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different numbers being shown in each of the photos.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Halloween Counting to 10.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them from the smallest to the biggest. The students can then discuss what they think the answer is if they add 2 cards together.
The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.
Learn about number bonds up to 10 using the Diwali festival.
You can also use these resources to help you directly to count to 10, followed by seeing the numbers in different orders, followed by a nice Diwali colouring book to improve their fine motor skills.
You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different calculations being shown in each of the photos.
You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Diwali Maths.
The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into an order. How they sorted the calculations.