ANY BOOKLISTS HERE ARE FOR THE OLDER WEEKLY PLANS – they are NOT for the new Flexible Blocks which have their own booklists accessible here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/flexible-blocks-booklists/
Flexible Blocks
Maths: Hamilton's short maths blocks have all the benefits of our weekly plans. They also provide support and resources that were simply not possible when we produced the weekly plans. Find out about the advantages of short blocks.
Problem-solving Investigations - Year 1
The problem-solving investigations below match Hamilton’s weekly maths plans. We now also provide Year 1 maths as short blocks. We will eventually be phasing out the plans, as we believe our short blocks offer you all of the same advantages and more, including the integration of the problem-solving investigations into each unit of study. Find out more about the advantages of Hamilton's short blocks.
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Children use digit cards to make 2-digit numbers between neighbouring multiples of 10.
Children create diagonal lines on a 1-100 grid by adding and subtracting 10 and 1, whilst trying to stop their partner doing the same.
Children roll a pair of dice to generate two-digit numbers and think which order they need to use the digits so that the complement to the next multiple of 10 is on the dice.
Children roll a dice to determine how many coins they can take. They try to choose coins with a total of either 10p or 20p.
Children use dominoes to generate two-digit number plus one-digit number additions in a pattern.
Children turn a mouse through a rolled number of quarter or half turns, aiming to get the mouse facing home again.
Halving chains (1): Children investigate which numbers from 1 to 20 will give the longest halving chain (each 'link' must be a whole number). Balancing act (2): Children balance multiple number shapes to find equivalent multiplications.
Children find different ways of getting 1p, 2p, 3p...change when buying cakes costing 1p to 20p and using 2p, 5p, 10p or 20p coins.