Operations Teaching Resources
A large collection of teaching resources to use when your students are learning about operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Use the educational posters as a visual stimulus in your primary classroom. Also provided are hands-on learning activities, games, resource packs for parents, worksheets and maths worksheet generator and maths mentals widgets. These widgets allow you to customise daily worksheets and quizzes for your students, using the number range and operations of your choice. Use the pre and post tests to ascertain your students prior knowledge before starting an operations unit of work.
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Be a Groupie
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore multiplication through its representation as groups of objects.
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Multiples Everywhere
A 60 minute lesson in which students apply knowledge and understanding of multiplication to a real-world context.
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Skip Count to Multiply
A 60 minute lesson in which students use knowledge of skip counting in order to add multiples of the same number.
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Arrays of Sunshine!
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore the concept of arrays and recognise ‘×’ as the symbol for multiplication.
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Repeat That Adding
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore multiplication through its representation as repeated addition.
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Exploring Subtraction Strategies – Assessment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of subtraction strategies.
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Trade It!
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn how to trade when subtracting.
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Jump or Split
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn the jump and skip strategies to subtract.
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Think 'Addition' to Subtract
A 60-minute lesson in which students apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction as inverse operations to solve equations with missing addends.
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Frolic with Fact Families
A 60-minute lesson in which students explore the relationship between the members of fact families.
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Aim for a Zero-Tail
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn the strategy of making ten to subtract.
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What Do You Know?
A 60-minute lesson in which students will revise strategies such as counting on, counting back, subtracting 10, and using known number facts.
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Assessment - Addition Strategies
A 30-minute assessment designed to assess students' understanding of working with place value to solve problems, the connection between addition and subtraction, and the development of efficient mental strategies for computation.
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Finding Your Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to reinforce that students can choose to use different addition strategies in different situations.
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Compensation Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to build upon students' understanding of addition and subtraction by exploring compensation.
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Linking Addition and Subtraction
A 60-minute lesson designed to investigate the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Multiplying and Dividing by 10 and 100
A 60 minute lesson in which students will multiply and divide larger numbers by 10 and 100.
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Split Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to progress student understanding of mental addition by partitioning numbers into place value to help them find a total.
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Number Boards
A 60-minute lesson designed to explore the use of number boards/hundreds charts when adding numbers.
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Jump Strategy
A 60-minute lesson designed to explore the jump strategy for adding two- and three-digit numbers.
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Bridging to Ten
A 60-minute lesson designed for students to recall 'friends of ten' facts and use this knowledge to solve addition sums.
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Concrete Materials
A 60-minute lesson to reinforce student understanding of basic addition principles, using concrete materials.
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Sound Groups for Teaching Multiplication Video
Teach your students about equal groups in multiplication with this engaging video that combines multiplication with music!
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Hands-On Addition Activities for the Classroom
Our top picks for hands-on activities to consolidate simple addition.
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The Best Hands-On Activity for Numbers to 10
A super fun hands-on activity to help consolidate children's knowledge of numbers one to ten.
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15 New and Exciting Place Value Activities!
Take a look at these 15 NEW resources to teach the concept of place value to your class. We have place value activities for any year level!
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10 Easy, Simple Addition Activities for Kids
Are your students frustrated with the concept of addition? Make addition fun in the classroom, or even at home, with these creative, easy and effective hands-on activities.
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The Bar Model Method | Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving
The Bar Model is an explicit strategy for mathematical problem solving. It can be applied to all operations, including multiplication and division.