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The Maths Eyes Concept

If you can see the maths that you do in your everyday life you will build your confidence in your own ability with mathematics.

Implementing the Maths Eyes concept is a low Threshold High Ceiling approach that means everyone can get started but the concept also enables lots of built in extension opportunities.

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Our mission is to help you to see the maths that you use in your everyday life by opening your Maths Eyes. Unlock Your Maths Eyes.

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Hit the Button

Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Brilliant for improving mental maths and calculation skills, but particularly times tables either up to 10 or up to 12 times.

Subtraction Grids

Can you meet the challenge to see how many subtraction calculations you can do in two minutes? There are different levels and you can choose either one or two missing numbers to make your number sentence correct.

Mental Maths Train

Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations.

Caterpillar Ordering

A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard. Levels range from ordering and sequencing numbers to 5 up to decimals.

Rocket Rounding

A multiple choice game involving rounding numbers to ten, a hundred and to a whole number. There are two options, one with a number line and the other more difficult level, without one.

Multiples and Factors

A multiple choice game with two game modes. In the first you need to identify the Lowest Common Multiple and in the second the Highest Common Factor. Questions increase in difficulty depending on accuracy

Shape Patterns

Shape Patterns is a shapes sequencing game. Complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. There are three levels of difficulty.

Teddy Numbers

The Teddy Numbers game can help you to learn numbers to 15. Learn the digits and words for the numbers and it game can help you learn to count too.

2D Shape Reveal

An interactive whiteboard resource to help with the teaching and learning of the names and properties of 2D shapes.

Arrow Cards

Build a two or three digit number using the cards. Click the button to see how it is written. This site can help children understand place value. It is suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.

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Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents.

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Any suggestions, comments on the toolkit4maths welcome here

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Use this applet to create patterns to cover the screen using regular polygons.

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Enriching mathematics for all learners

A free-to-use collection of mathematics activities, lessons and problems designed to nurture curious, resourceful and confident learners of mathematics. Produced by The University of Cambridge.

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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Unleash your creativity with the world's best virtual manipulatives!

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A Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather| Definitions | Free Math Posters and Charts | Maths Examples | Math Words | Math Glossary | Math Terms |

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Free maths dictionary for students with over 955 common math words, math terms and maths definitions explained in simple language with visual examples. A math glossary with mathematics definitions, explanations, examples, math charts and posters for students and teachers. © Jenny Eather 2020.

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Are you looking for a quick way to have students check their own work? Or perhaps you're simply ready to introduce your students to the calculator. Yet, calculators run out of batteries, can be hard to keep track of, and aren't good for much outside of basic calculations.

This free online calculator is ideal for early learners. Featuring color coded buttons, the calculator makes it easy for students to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Students simply enter the operation using the buttons and press the purple equals sign. Students can also use the keyboard on a computer instead of the blue number buttons if they prefer. To enter a new equation, students simply press the "clear entry" button, clearing the window. The answer to the previous equation appears above the window.

Using calculators in your lessons can help students learn to solve more complex problems. Through the use of the calculator, students are able to focus more on problem-solving and strategy when approaching word problems.

Note on Exponential Notation: Answers are rounded to four decimal places to keep the display simple. Very large and very small numbers will feature an "e" followed by a number. The number represents the number of decimal places to apply to the number to the left of the "e." If the number following the "e" is positive, the decimal moves right, and if it is negative, the decimal moves left.

Example: 52e5= 52 x (10x10x10x10x10) or 5200000 and 52e-5=52÷(10x10x10x10x10) or .00052

Visit classplayground.com for more resources and printables related to math.

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Free Online Calculator | Math Manipulatives | Toy Theater

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This free online calculator for students is color coded, easy to use, and fun! Introduce students to the calculator with this fun, free tool.

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Fraction walls are a great way to teach about fractions and in particular equivalent fractions. In a fraction wall each row or layer of the wall represents one whole number. The layers are divided into a number of bricks and hence each brick represents a fraction whose denominator is equal to the number of bricks in that layer. Each brick can be turned on or off by clicking it. This wall also allows the display of decimal and percentage values. To the right of the wall are boxes which can be hidden, the value of each box is fraction of the wall that has been turned on.

Selecting different walls

When you launch this interactive teaching program the initial wall is a mixed one showing 3 distinct fraction families. Change the wall by using the mode control. 'Large' displays a wall in which the layers are split 1,2,3 up to 12. The others split the wall along 2s, 3s or 5s. The 5s also includes a lower wall of 100 bricks, this naturally works quite well in explaining percentages since each brick represent ¹⁄ ₁₀₀ or 1%.

Fractions, decimals or percentages

Use the display type control to display decimals (rounded to 2dp), percentages (rounded to 1dp), fractions or none.

The equivalent fraction control

Normally when you click a brick to turn it on or off, only that brick is affected. However if you turn on the equivalent fraction function by clicking the 'Eq' toggle button. Now when a brick is clicked the other layers will turn on bricks if they can match an equivalent fraction. Note, this is not always possible, in fact if you select the primes wall it is never possible to show an equivalent fraction. In this case all the other layers have bricks turned off.

Least Common Multiple

Also known as 'the lowest common multiple' or 'smallest common multiple' is crucial when adding, subtracting or comparing fractions. This button will calculate the LCM based on the rows that have active bricks. Pressing the LCM button will create a new wall that contains the originally selected fraction but also a new layer with the number of divisions equalling the least common multiple of the denominators of the other rows. Sounds complicated, but it really just means that it is always possible to create an equivalent fraction in the LCM row from the other rows.

Other controls

The other controls are

'On' button when clicked will turn on all the bricks

'Off' button when clicked will turn off all the bricks

'Random' button creates a randomized wall in which roughly half the bricks are on. Usually you would hide the totals before pressing this and then the class can work out each fraction in the random wall.

' < ' button will align all the bricks to the left hand side of the wall. This is often pressed after using the randomize function. Fractions can then be compared by considering the length of each row of on bricks.

hide totals click to hide all the totals. The individuals total can then be clicked to show the value.

show totals reveal all the totals.

Advanced Section

To show or hide the advanced section click the advanced toggle button

When the advance controls are on, each layer of the wall has a dedicated slider, move this to change the number the number of bricks in that layer.

Automatic 1 button when clicked create a new wall by dividing the top layer by all its ascending prime factors. So for example if you move the top slider so the top layer has 42 bricks and then click the button. The primefactors of 42 are 2,3 and 7. So the second layer will have 42÷2=21 bricks, the third layer will have 21÷3=7 bricks and the final layer will have 7÷7= 1 brick.

Automatic 2 is similar but creates a layer for every factor of the top layer value.

Add Layer adds a new layer to the bottom of the wall.

total type select control will change the type of total to display. The default is to match what the wall shows, so in this case if the wall is showing fraction the total will be a fraction. But using this control it is now possible for fractions to be shown in the wall but the total to be given as a percentage.

Further fractions

Closely related to this activity is the percentage fraction and decimals grid, which can be used to display a square or circle fraction representation.

Other activities that can be used to teach fractions are the clock activity which uses the clock face to show the fraction of minutes passed in an hour. Launch the activity and select the fractions mode, this mode also show equivalent fractions for example ³⁰⁄ ₆₀ = ¹⁄ ₂. The number explorer activity can show the fraction resulting from division of a number.

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Interactive Fraction Wall | online fraction | percentage | decimal | visnos

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Online fraction wall, easily display fractions using interactive white board. Simple to explore fraction,decimals and percentages . Step by step view equivalent fractions. Beautiful display which children love.

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Fun way to learn the times tables with games and grids to download.

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Learning Objectives:

Y1: To represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20

Y1: To add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including zero

Y1: To solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems such as 7 = missing number - 9.

Y2: To solve problems with addition and subtraction using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities (and measures)

Y2: To recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100

Y2: To add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including... a two-digit number and ones, a two-digit number and tens, two two-digit numbers, adding three one-digit numbers

Y2: To show that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot

Y2: To recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems

This is a demonstration tool suitable when using the 'Part-Part-Whole Model' for addition and subtraction.
Choose which manipulatives you wish to use. To change your manipulatives at any time you can press the 'change' button.

You can add text by usng the keypad and then dragging it on.

You can remove anything by dragging it to the right-hand side.

Have fun!

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Learning Objectives: Y1: To represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20 Y1: To add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including zero Y1: To solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems such as 7 = missing number - 9.

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Fun & Free online math games for kids K-5, featuring addition, multiplication, subtraction, line plots, pictographs, virtual manipulatives, and more.

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Illuminations Home - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Modes

How Many: Identify how many items or empty squares there are.

Build: Drag a certain number of items to the frame.

Fill: Determine how many items are needed to fill the remaining squares.

Add: Drag items to complete addition problems.

Play All: Randomize which of the four games above is played.

Options

The items to be used can be chosen in the upper left corner: circles, bugs, stars, or apples.

How to Use

The Done button should be clicked when you believe that you have correctly completed a frame. The number buttons at the bottom of the screen can be used to enter an answer, or the computer keyboard can be used.

The Next button advances to the next problem.

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The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.

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