TLIR Maths Number strategies

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Planning notes

Level/Framework stage/Group: 3

Duration/Date: 2 weeks

Part of the research project

Focus Achievement Objectives

Find out how many ones, tens, hundreds and thousands are in all of a whole number.

Choose critically from a range of mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Addition/Subtraction Strategies

Level Three

Level Four

Number and Algebra

Secondary activities

These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties and strategies for addition and subtraction.

Introducing Decimal Fraction Place Value

Level Four

Number and Algebra

Numeracy activities

Addition and Subtraction Pick n Mix

Level Three

Number and Algebra

Units of Work

In this unit we look at a range of strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems with whole numbers. This supports students anticipating, from the structure of a problem, which strategies might be best suited to solving it.

Download the attached files for activities in your plan