This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Estimation’ offers an introduction to the concept of estimation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number sense worksheet, ‘Estimation 1’ allows for practice with addition, subtraction and multiplication problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number sense worksheet, ‘Estimation 2’ allows for practice with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number sense worksheet, ‘Estimation 3’ allows for practice with addition and subtraction problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Estimation in Situations’ allows for practice using estimation in context. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Estimation Strategies’ introduces different strategies for estimation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Expressing Addition and Subtraction’ allows for practice with number word problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Find the Pattern 1’ allows for practice with number patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Find the Pattern 2’ allows for practice with number patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Find the Pattern 3’ allows for practice with number patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity, ‘Fish Fair’ uses a sea theme to instruct students in playing the old cup and coin game. In this version, cups represent sea shells and counters are used for pearls as students try to predict where the pearls are hidden. The activity supports the exploration of predicting the likelihood of an outcome …More
In the learning activity, ‘Fishing Fancy’, students first collect and display category data to answer questions. They then select suitable ways to display the data. They also write story problems using data and fractions as they compare the numbers of different kinds of fish. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with …More
Bill has 30 butterflies in the garden shown in this learning activity, ‘Flitting with Fractions’. Students have to use fractions to solve problems when Bill and his friends catch the butterflies. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
How big is an iceberg? The learning activity, ‘Floating Ideas’ helps students understand that most of an iceberg is under the water. Students use estimates to work out the amount of ice is below the surface in a series of examples, and explain why a ruler is or is not the best way to measure …More
The learning activity ‘Food for Thought’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that include comparing costs, distributing car passengers, and watering a tree. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Four Square Facts’ helps students to record information that appears in written story problems and analyse what they know about this information.
This graphic organiser, ‘Four Square Facts and Computation Words’ allows students to write the definitions of mathematical basic operation words in a variety of different ways.
A greedy bug has been at work in this learning activity, ‘Getting in Shape’ and students have to find out what shapes he has eaten. This intriguing activity challenges students to use different methods to understand the concept of three quarters. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
The amusing learning activity, ‘Going Fishing’ shows a group of fishermen discussing the reasons they haven’t caught many fish. Students study a graph their results and compare them with the reasons the men give for the variations in their catch. Students then make predictions based on the patterns shown in the graphs. An answer sheet …More
With the learning activity, ‘Graphic Details’ students use graphs and spreadsheets to predict the values of further items in different sets of patterns. They can use materials to support their thinking, but the challenge is to use other methods to solve the problems. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions …More
Students who have flown will be interested in this learning activity ‘High Flyers’ in which they look at different seating plans for planes. Seating plans change according to the shape of the plane, and students must calculate ways to arrange rows for the seats. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with …More
Most students have made buildings from cubes or blocks. The learning activity, ‘High-rise Harry’ shows how Harry built up an intricate pattern of cubes, stage by stage. Students are challenged to identify the general rule Harry used so they can predict the successive stages of his pattern. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying …More
The hands-on activity, ‘Holey Moley’ shows students how they can set up a beanbag golf game. As they work out the layout of their course, they must decide on the distances between the holes and estimate the number of throws (the par) required to reach each hole. They record their results on the learning activity. …More
The learning activity ‘Home Sweet Home’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that involve using a house plan, sharing, enlarging a building, and using coins. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes …More
What happens when cold water mixes with hot water? In the learning activity, ‘Hot or Cold’ students use a girl’s experiments to learn about the relationships between water temperatures and quantities. The accompanying teaching notes provide background information about the way different ocean temperatures cause currents to form and affect the Earth’s weather.
This subtraction worksheet, ‘Subtraction Problems: How Many Left? 1’ allows for practice with subtractions problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This subtraction worksheet, ‘Subtraction Problems: How Many Left? 2’ allows for practice with subtractions problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This subtraction worksheet, ‘Subtraction Problems: How Many More? 1’ allows for practice with subtractions problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This subtraction worksheet, ‘Subtraction Problems: How Many More? 2’ allows for practice with subtractions problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 1’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 2’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 3’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 4’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 5’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 6’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 7’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Inverse Operations’ allows for practice explaining and using relationships between operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In this learning activity, ‘Job Sharing’ students help the Murdoch Street kids share out the money they have earned from doing odd jobs. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity ‘Join the Queue’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that involve standing in line, using maps, time, and calculator displays. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support …More
The word problems in the learning activity ‘Kete Counting’ challenge students to use a variety of strategies, and to develop their algebraic thinking. Strategies include trial and improvement, visualisation, and using multiplication arrays. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This word problems worksheet, ‘Magazines’ asks students to practise with addition and subtraction in word problems.
The learning activity ‘Making More’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. They involve using strategies to calculate money paid for odd jobs, increasing cubic shapes, measuring water, and complete an addition puzzle. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity, ‘Megamaze’ students have to help Crusty the Crayfish negotiate a maze to find his way home. They need to use compass directions and distance measurements to tell Crusty how to do this. An answer sheet is provided and the accompanying teaching notes have suggestions for supporting learning, for example by playing …More
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Missing Numbers’ allows for practice using patterns to recognise rules of operations and superlatives in measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Word Problems: Multiplication and Division’ allows for practice solving multiplication and division word problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Multiplication in Pictures 1’ allows for practice modelling, representing and explain multiplication. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Multiplication in Pictures 2’ allows for practice explaining groups of using multiplication. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Multiplication Word Problems’ allows for practice identifying the need to use multiplication to solve word problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This patterns and algebra worksheet, ‘Number Expression’ allows for practice expressing word problems as numerical equations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity ‘Number Fun’ is designed to be used as a short starting point for a lesson. The problems will generate discussion about the way students think about solving problems, and the strategies they can use. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Number Nibbles’, describes the diet of coloured stones enjoyed by the Greywackies on planet Asteron. Students need to use number clues to find unknowns. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Number Operations’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of numbers and operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Number Operations’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of numbers and operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Number Operations’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of numbers and numerical operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Number Operations’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of number and numerical operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Number Operations’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of number and numerical operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity, ‘Number Tricks’ presents algebraic thinking within a fun game students can play together. The games help develop the students’ ideas about generalised properties of numbers and how they apply to variables. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths manipulative, ‘Number Words’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Numbers’ provides opportunities for practice with matching numerals to their word forms.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Numbers’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match word numbers to their numeral form.
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