These fantastic weekly guides will save you bucket loads of time and preparation! These age-appropriate questions are a great resource for warmups or fast finishers when practicing their mental mathematics. The guides have been created for all weeks of the school year, simply display for students or print and turn into booklets.
Recall and demonstrate proficiency with addition facts to 20; extend and apply facts to develop related subtraction facts
Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations, apply to partition numbers and find unknown values in number sentences
Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations, including money transactions; represent situations and choose calculation strategies; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation
Recall and demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts for twos; extend and apply facts to develop the related division facts using doubling and halving
Investigate number sequences, initially those increasing and decreasing by twos, threes, fives and tens from any starting point, then moving to other sequences
Explore the connection between addition and subtraction
Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies
Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols
Uses objects, diagrams and technology to explore mathematical problems
Supports conclusions by explaining or demonstrating how answers were obtained
Applies place value, informally, to count, order, read and represent two- and three-digit numbers
Uses a range of mental strategies and concrete materials for multiplication and division
Uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving two-, three-, four- and five-digit numbers
Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used
Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
Uses a range of strategies and informal recording methods for addition and subtraction involving one- and two-digit numbers
Completes number sentences involving addition and subtraction by finding missing values
Uses number bonds and the relationship between addition and subtraction to solve problems involving partitioning
Selects and uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving 2- and 3-digit numbers
Represents and compares decimals up to 2 decimal places using place value
Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent numbers to at least tens of thousands
Uses the structure of equal groups to solve multiplication problems, and shares or groups to solve division problems
Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction
Use a function machine and the inverse machine as a model to apply mathematical rules to numbers or shapes
Recognise and represent division as grouping into equal sets and solve simple problems using these representations
Apply repetition in arithmetic operations, including multiplication as repeated addition and division as repeated subtraction
Recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays
Count and order small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value
Investigate number sequences, initially those increasing and decreasing by twos, threes, fives and ten from any starting point, then moving to other sequences
Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies
Explore the connection between addition and subtraction