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.
Teachers have moved on from worksheets and PowerPoints to a lot more fun with YouTube and so I am now trying to redevelop my teaching resources to match this changing world. I must admit I am much happier with a YouTube video than a PowerPoint. This lesson has cleverly combined both. You could share the Youtube lesson with parents to watch at home as extra support as well as in the classroom.
FREE Year 1 Maths Lesson - Money Problems - Spring Term
Learning objectives:
I can say numbers 0 to 20 in order.
I understand simple properties of numbers.
I can count pennies in ones and twos.
If you like this teaching resource, you will really like my FREE Year 1 Maths Lesson Pack (11 Lessons) at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-1-maths-powerpoint-lessons-6167046
I am converting all my highly popular teaching powerpoints into YouTube videos to help teachers use them more effectively in the classroom. If you love them, please leave me a positive comment below!
Using ‘Near Doubles’ YouTube PowerPoint Lesson Presentation Year 2 (Autumn Term)
FREE Year 2 PowerPoint Lesson Presentation Using ‘Near Doubles’ (Autumn Term). It would be useful for KS1 SATs revision, homework lessons and as a instant class lesson. If you like this teaching resource, then click here and see the whole FREE Year 2 Maths Teaching Pack - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-maths-powerpoint-resources-6167047
I have developed a set of weekly Mental Maths for Year 3 children for teachers who want to include Minecraft in the classroom.
I wanted to develop resources where a teacher can teach with Minecraft in a classroom with a single computer and a projector.
I need to mention that Minecraft was created by Mojang AB. http://www.DrFog.co.uk is not endorsed, associated or affiliated with Mojang AB in any way.
FREE Maths PowerPoint Presentations for DFES SpringBoard 5 (Also Use As Year 4 Booster Lessons)
FREE Maths Lessons Content:
Lesson 1: Developing your preferred ways of doing multiplication.
Lesson 2: The area method of doing multiplication
Lesson 3: The idea of 'carrying' when doing multiplication
Lesson 4: Developing the area method for doing multiplication.
Lesson 5: Using doubling in multiplication
Lesson 6: Developing a doubling - and - addition method of doing multiplication
Lesson 7: Finding pairs of factors
Lesson 8: Division of larger numbers
Lesson 9: Division as repeated subtraction
Lesson 10: Developing a standard method
Lesson 11: Flexible approaches to division.
Years ago I wrote series of numeracy lessons which converted all the DFES Numeracy SpringBoard 5 lessons into interactive PowerPoint lessons.
I think these will still be great for optional SATS revision also also for covering lessons, or for giving to supply teachers.
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I have developed a set of weekly Mental Maths for Year 2 children for teachers who want to include Minecraft in the classroom.
I wanted to develop resources where a teacher can teach with Minecraft in a classroom with a single computer and a projector.
I need to mention that Minecraft was created by Mojang AB. http://www.DrFog.co.uk is not endorsed, associated or affiliated with Mojang AB in any way.
I want to make KS2 SATs revision fun. I want it to be something students and teachers really enjoy. I have taken each of the SATs revision tests and combined the original test papers and the original marking schemes into PowerPoints where you ask a question and immediately see the the answer on the next slide. This teaching packs covers KS2 Maths and KS2 SATs SPAG tests (Spag is English grammar, punctuation and spelling Papers)
The idea is that you can now ask a question and all your students show you the answer on their mini-whiteboards and then you discuss the answers together and see what would have got one or two points. As the students can work in pairs or small groups on the questions, they are less stressed and enjoy the whole revision process. In addition, it gives them a chance to learn about other student’s strategies.
This pack could be used in the classroom for whole class teaching, for small groups or at home as a great teaching resource.
If you like this teaching resource, check out my teaching resources at https://www.firstmaths.com/.
If you like these resources, be sure to leave a nice comment. Nice comments make my day, and motivate me to write more teaching resources.
I have been a keen fan of this book for a long time. I was really excited to see as part of the Open Government scheme, I was able to take this book and make it into something I believe is much more user friendly.
When I used the original book with an interactive whiteboard, I was always annoyed at having to skim to the end of the book to show an answer. I wanted it on the next page.
In addition, I have now replaced all the pictured with much more stimulating colourful pictures. I have also taken the time to follow the advice of Dudley council and sorted the different problems into age groups and blocks.
You will notice there is some repetition of problems both between blocks and in different year groups. The students can try the same problem twice at different times, as this is excellent consolidation. It is also an excellent time to suggest students think about how they could change the problem.
How can this be used in the classroom?
This could be used as an assessment at the start or the end of a unit. It also could be used as an emergency set of lessons for any teacher while covering another teacher’s maths classes.
In addition, it is also an excellent set of resources to prepare for different exams. Look at how the students resolve a problem and identify the different ways different students attempt to answer the same problem.
In addition to answering the problems, this is also an excellent time to look into inverse operations. How do we know we have found all the answers? How do we know we have found the correct answer?
I have really enjoyed making these mental maths problems a lot more accessible. I have enjoyed teaching them in a wide range of different classes and I hope that you too will enjoy making maths fun.
Teachers now use YouTube more than PowerPoint and so I am now developing my resources ton reflect this new Powerpoint - YouTube combo in the in the classroom. It has the additional benefit that you can then share the links to the lessons directly with the students’ parents for extra homework.
The Multiplication Symbols YouTube Maths PowerPoint Presentation - Year 2 Spring Term
FREE Year 2 Maths PowerPoint Presentation - The Multiplication Symbols - Spring Term is ideal for revising for the KS1 SATs tests. You can also use this lesson in the classroom or as a homework task. If you like this lesson, you will love my FREE Year 2 11 Maths Lessons pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-maths-powerpoint-resources-6167047.
YouTube Examining statistics FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Autumn Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Examining statistics - Autumn Term
This lesson’s learning objectives
Identify and use appropriate operations to solve word problems.
Explain methods and reasoning orally and in writing.
This FREE year 6 lesson came from my FREE Year 6 Lesson pack (11 lessons in total) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056
YouTube Investigating Calendars FREE Year 6 PowerPoint Lesson Autumn Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 6 PowerPoint Lesson -Investigating Calendars - Autumn Term
Learning Objectives:
Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers by finding examples that satisfy it.
Develop from explaining a generalised relationship in words to expressing it in a formula using letters as symbols.
This lesson came from my FREE Year 6 Maths pack (11 Lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056
FREE YouTube Year 6 Ratio and proportion Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Autumn Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 6 Maths PowerPoint Lesson - Ratio and proportion - Autumn Term
Learning Objective:
Solve simple problems using ratio and proportion.
Identify and use appropriate operations to solve word problems.
Make and investigate a general statement about familiar numbers by finding examples that satisfy it.
If you like this FREE Year 6 Maths lesson, you should also look at my FREE Year 6 Math pack (11 lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/springboard-6-numeracy-resources-6167056
I have developed a set of weekly Mental Maths for Year 1 children for teachers who want to include Minecraft in the classroom.
I wanted to develop resources where a teacher can teach with Minecraft in a classroom with a single computer and a projector.
I need to mention that Minecraft was created by Mojang AB. http://www.DrFog.co.uk is not endorsed, associated or affiliated with Mojang AB in any way.
These five complete PowerPoint lessons focus on capacity, shape and space. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up activity. This is followed by a main, whole class learning session. The lessons end with a differentiated learning challenge.
Summer Term
Lesson 1: Week 5
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: solve problems
use words about capacity
know relationships between units
estimate, measure and compare capacity.
Lesson 2: Week 5
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: solve problems
use words about capacity
know relationships between units
estimate, measure and compare capacity.
Lesson 3: Week 5
Title Capacity
Learning Objective: solve problems
use words about capacity
know relationships between units
estimate, measure and compare capacity.
Lesson 4: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: use words for direction and movement
recognise quarter, half and whole turns
know that a quarter turn is a right angle
give instructions.
Lesson 5: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective: understand that a quarter turn is a right angle
recognise a right angle
give instructions
describe the position of an object.
YouTube Number patterns in multiplication tables - Year 4 Maths PowerPoint - Spring Term
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 4 Maths PowerPoint Presentation - Number patterns in multiplication tables - Spring Term
Lesson Objectives:
I can extend the operations of multiplication and division.
I can use addition to discover multiplication facts.
I can extend my understanding of the operations of multiplication and division.
If you like this lesson, you will love my FREE Year 4 Maths Teaching Pack (11 Maths Lessons) at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-year-4-students-6167052
Lots of different Year 6 (KS2) revision tests. What makes these teaching resources special? I have combined the different official documents, so you have the questions and answers all in one place. You can choose if you have the questions followed by the answers or if you prefer all the questions together, followed by all the answers together. This means it is much more flexible in the classroom as you can set a question, then review the question as a class or you can work your way through a whole test paper at once!
Multiplying by 9 YouTube Maths PowerPoint Presentation - Summer Term FREE Year 4
I am now converting all my PowerPoint presentations into YouTube videos PowerPoint Combos. This means teachers can teach the lesson using either the PowerPoint or Youtube version of the lesson and then share the YouTube lesson with their students’ parents. This lesson can then be repeated at home as additional homework.
FREE Year 4 Maths PowerPoint Presentation - Multiplying by 9 - Summer Term
Lesson Objectives:
I can tell you something about the properties of numbers.
I can multiply one- and two- digit numbers by 10.
I can multiply by 10 and then adjust in order to multiply by 9.
I can practise multiplying by 9.
If you liked this lesson, you will really like my FREE Year 4 Maths Lesson Pack (11 Springboard Lessons) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/maths-powerpoint-lessons-for-year-4-students-6167052
This week provides full power point presentations helping students to understand place value and ordering. The lessons contain a 10 minute mental warm up, and then a whole class teaching session. The lessons finish with helpful suggestions about main lesson lesson activities students could try.
Lesson 1: Week 2
Title Place Value and Ordering
Learning Objective: read and write numerals
compare and order numbers
give a number which lies between two numbers
order numbers and position on a hundred square.
Lesson 2: Week 2
Title Place Value and Ordering
Learning Objective: what each digit in a two-digit number represents
to order numbers
to use numbers greater than 100.
Lesson 3: Week 2
Title Place Value, Ordering and Estimating
Learning Objective: how to recognise numbers
where numbers are on a number line
to understand the words used with estimation
how to round more accurately.
Lesson 4: Week 2
Title Place Value, Ordering and Addition
Learning Objective: to recognise tens and ones
how to combine a tens number and a one-digit number to make a two-digit number
how to write a number sentence
to combine a hundreds, tens and one-digit number.
Lesson 5: Week 2
Title Place Value and Addition
Learning Objective: recognise the relationship between digits in a two-digit number
combine numbers to make a two-digit number.
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.
This is a 5 day set of lessons to help a Year 2 class to learn more about the addition and the subtraction of money. The lessons all start with a 10 minute mental warm up session. This is followed by a whole class, interactive lesson on money. The lessons finish with useful suggestions about how the class can be taken forward using differentiated challenges.
Autumn Term
Lesson 1: Week 4
Title Addition and Subtraction of Money
Learning Objective: To recognise all coins
to find totals
how to add numbers
how to add several numbers together.
Lesson 2: Week 4
Title Addition and Subtraction of Money
Learning Objective: solve money problems
recognise coins
add a one-digit number to a two-digit number without crossing the tens.
Lesson 3: Week 4
Title Addition and Subtraction of Money
Learning Objective: solve money problems and give change
subtract a one-digit number from a two-digit number
subtract a one-digit number from a twenties number crossing 20
make decisions if to use a + or –.
Lesson 4: Week 4
Title Addition and Subtraction of Money
Learning Objective: make decisions if to use a + or –
Lesson 5: Week 4
Title Addition and Subtraction Strategies and Money
Learning Objective: understand the value of money
find strategies for finding equal amounts of money.