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 1/2
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Children use digit cards to make two-digit numbers between neighbouring multiples of 10.
Stop me if you can! (Y1): 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. Jack's amazing beanstalk (Y2): Children double numbers and add to a running total, and then look for patterns.
Y1: Children add single-digit numbers to numbers between 30 and 40, aiming to bridge 40. Y2: Children look for numbers which have a difference of 5.
Children explore the number of half past or quarter past and quarter to times in a day by looking at the two sides of the clock.
Dicey coins (Y1): 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. Sixteen rocks (Y2): Children arrange place value cards to make three-digit numbers and then add the digits. They look at patterns.
Y1: Children use dominoes to generate two-digit number plus one-digit numbers additions in a pattern. Y2: Children use dominoes to generate pairs of numbers with a given total.
Children find out which letter is used most often in a page-a-day diary which uses shorthand for each month.
Children investigate which numbers from 1 to 20 (Y1) or 50 (Y2) will give the longest halving chain (each 'link' must be a whole number).
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.
Time challenge (Y1): Children use time vocabulary to write times on analogue clocks. Make it equal (Y2): Children find pairs of numbers to satisfy an equality.