Maths Year 5 Autumn Flexible Blocks Explained

Teaching
Each day's teaching is summarised for quick planning and easy reference. The teaching is described in detail in the 'Teaching & Activities' document, while the 'Teaching Resources' document contains all of the visual images you require as well as a list of the physical items that you need. 'Common Misconceptions' helps you spot areas of potential confusion before they become a problem, and also contains a list of key vocabulary for the unit.
Group Activities
Each teaching day includes differentiated group activities for children working below ARE, children working around ARE and children working at greater depth.
Days
The number of teaching days in a unit varies depending on the objectives. Teachers can adjust these in order to suit their own classes.

• List of the physical items required for this lesson
• Links to on-line resources

Everyday classroom items, such as white boards and pens, are detailed in the 'Teaching Resources' document.

Each day has a starter, a recommended starter, or sometimes a choice of starters.

• Some starters will warm-up skills that are required for the day's lesson (pre-requisite skills).
• Some starters will rehearse skills that pupils need to keep on-the-boil throughout the year (simmering skills).

Each day has a procedural fluency focus with practice sheets differentiated for children working toward ARE, at ARE and at greater depth.

• A series of problem solving and reasoning questions allow you to assess mastery for each unit.
• You can use these before or after the lesson depending on your personal pedagogy.
• These questions can be downloaded in the 'Mastery Activity' document for printing or putting up on a white board.

In-depth Investigation
These problem-solving investigations will develop maths meta-skills, and are crucial for enabling children to learn to think mathematically and articulate mathematical ideas.

Extra support activities
Each week, inevitably, there are some children who are unable to succeed at age-related objectives. These intervention activities, if used consistently as you go along, have the potential to make a lot of difference to the children who are below ARE.

Downloads
Teaching sheets can be used by a teacher or a teaching assistant to support children using the child sheets.