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Despite practising multiplication facts, there is often still some uncertainty, so how do you get pupils to be able to use the facts efficiently when calculating? While there are some pupils who can learn multiplication facts relatively easily, this Powerpoint resource (consisting of 64 interactive slides plus printables) nurtures their understanding which will help them to develop fluency when working with multiplication. A range of models and images, interactive activities and games are utilis

Gain immediate access to ALL resources on the Mathsmoves website for a year and get support, advice and ideas within the private Facebook group. These Powerpoint resources contain interactive slides for working through concepts with your students using visual models and images, alongside activities, printables and answers where applicable. Games are used for consolidation; statements are provided to promote reasoning and problems are included to allow students to apply their understanding.

This interactive Powerpoint (consisting of 57 interactive slides plus printables) helps pupils to understand area and perimeter which students can often find confusing. This resource initially focuses on the ideas of area being the covering of space in two dimensions and perimeter as being the boundary around an area of space. Pupils are encouraged to use various units for the measure of area, prior to appreciating why squares are the unit of measure that is commonly used. Once pupils are co

This resource contains 72 Christmas reasoning activities at three levels for the 5 to 11 age range. Problems and games engage pupils and get them thinking through tasks such as planning a party, comparing foot length and height to reindeer lengths, the speed at which Santa travels around the world and which table to sit at to get the most chocolate.

One of the reasons for some pupils' confusion when learning fractions is that they consider the numerators and denominators as whole numbers rather than as representing the relationship between the part and the whole. In this PowerPoint (consisting of 9 interactive slides plus printables) there is an emphasis on recognising the whole unit and the relationship between the parts and the whole unit. Sometimes, shapes and single pizzas are the predominant images used when working on the recogniti

Get into the festive spirit while providing your students with the opportunity to apply reasoning to math tasks in the days leading up to Christmas. They can be used at the start of each day, or when there is a convenient slot. Alternatively, they can be incorporated into the daily math lesson. Paired work is encouraged since the discussions that result when working together help to clarify students’ thoughts and ideas. Each slide contains notes that give advice on how to use the activities, w

This interactive Powerpoint (consisting of 18 interactive slides plus printables) helps pupils in lower KS2 to add and subtract fractions. Adding and subtracting fractions is not something that pupils are likely to experience very often in real life (we would be more likely to use their decimal equivalents), so this is a rather abstract topic. It is best to start with manipulatives then link this use to examples without manipulatives. Statements are used to provoke discussion since pupils

Getting outside for PE at this time of year usually involves some form of athletics, even if only in the form of practice for the fast-approaching Sports Day. This presents an excellent opportunity to practise measuring which is such an important but sometimes neglected part of teaching measures. Also, we obtain relevant data that can then be used back in the classroom.

This presentation is designed to help you explain the use of SPOT to pupils when solving word problems. Rather than focusing on key words, this approach focuses on creating an answer sentence at the beginning and using an image to understand the problem.