Primary Maths Assessment Materials
Questions, tasks and activities supporting teaching for mastery in mathematics from the National Centre for Excellence in the teaching of mathematics.
Placing Numbers on a Number Line
A versatile number line that can be used at many different levels beginning at numbers 1 to 10 up to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. Place numbers on a number line and see how close you can get.
Get Gas Safe
Get Gas Safe is an education programme for UK children aged 9 to 11 created by Gas Safe Charity. It aims to help teachers deliver key gas safety messages to children and their families. Registration necessary to access free resources.
Number Pieces
A great teaching resource which helps children to understand place value. It uses hundreds, tens and ones blocks. It's great for demonstrating decomposition as you can break apart the pieces.
Match Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
A matching game which can help you to recognise equivalence of fractions, decimals and percentages. Displays well on interactive whiteboard.
Telling the Time in Words
A game where you need to tell the time in words. Use language such as 'o'clock', 'half past' and 'quarter to' and compare the analogue time to digital time. The site works very well on an interactive whiteboard.
Sorting 3D Shapes on a Venn Diagram
An activity where you use a Venn diagram to sort a variety of 3D shapes according to their properties, including: whether they are pyramids or prisms, the number of faces, edges and vertices and whether they have a curved surface.
Add and Subtract on a Number Line
Try adding and subtracting near multiples on a number line. Develop mental methods of addition and subtraction by adding and subtracting a multiple of 10 or 100, and then adjusting. Works well on IWB.
Brackets - Order of Operations
Use a calculator to carry out calculations with more than one step using brackets. Suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.
Using a Calculator - Finding Change
Answer a variety of 2 step word problems using a calculator.
