Operations Teaching Resources for Year 3
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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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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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Exploring Subtraction Strategies Unit Plan
This Mathematics unit covers a range of mental computation strategies for subtraction.
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Addition Detectives
This Mathematics unit covers a range of mental computation strategies for addition.
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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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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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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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Concrete Materials
A 60-minute lesson to reinforce student understanding of basic addition principles, using concrete materials.