James Russo

This resource outlines a fun and simple game for helping to build fluency in mental arithmetic. It contains three adaptations, making it suitable for all primary school age children. The theme is wizardry. Help students select the appropriate "spell book", grab a 100's chart, some dice and counters, and students can get started right away! Mental Maths Games: Magic Number by James Russo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This material is design to help you explore complements to 100 (e.g., 58+42=100) across two lessons with your students. The learning objective is: To look for patterns to help us solve math problems in efficient ways. Today we looked to make complements to 100 (Super Rainbow Facts). The first lesson involves students tackling a Challenging Task. The second lesson is some consolidating worksheets (frozen/ ninja turtle themed). Contained in the material is a brief overview of how to teach with Ch

Are you a primary school teacher who has found the Daily CAFE framework useful in your classroom? SURF Maths provides a similar framework for teaching mathematics, specifically mental computation. I have provided a game-based activity which supports the introduction of a key SURF maths concept - More than 1 way (i.e., that there is more than 1 way of solving a problem). To find information on how to implement the SURF maths framework, as well as further free activities and lesson plans, visit