The 6 types of Questions your Students Need to Know about

Learning is all about asking questions and finding answers to them. An inquisitive mind is one that goes beyond the status quo and probes deep below surface meanings. To foster such kind of thinking inside our classroom requires some hard work and a serious investment in time and efforts. Yes you can put it in your teaching plans for this new school year.

1000s FREE Primary Teaching Resources & Printables - EYFS, KS1 and KS2 - SparkleBox Math and English: free printable math materials in English for mative students and ESL math students. Number Lesson Starters and Online Activities Number Starters: A Very Strange Game: Four different actions depending on the number which appears. Abundant Buses: A game based around the concept of abundant numbers. Add 'em: Add up a sequence of consecutive numbers. All The Nines: Add up all the numbers in the nine times table. Ancient Mysteries: This activity requires students to memorise fifteen numbers in a three by five grid. Aunt Sophie's Post Office: Work out the number of stamps needed to post a parcel. Can You Decide? ChrisMaths: Find a power of 2 and a power of 3 that are consecutive numbers. Christmas Bells: If all the bells ring together at noon, at what time will they next all ring together? Christmas Eve: How many palindromic numbers can you find? ClockEquate: Can you use the digits on the left of this clock along with any mathematical operations to equal the digits on the right? Coins in Envelopes: Fifteen pennies are placed in four envelopes and the envelopes are sealed. Halve it: Start with 512. What are they? Pentransum

Minecraft Multiplication Practice - Christy's Houseful of Chaos Are you looking for ways to convince your children to practice their multiplication facts? There are many places to get minecraft flashcards with random minecraft pictures and random multiplication facts, but I wanted a way in which to give my seven year old more practice with the multiplication that is integral to minecraft itself. I decided to work on just the multiples of four and six and I devised both some instructions for him to work through on the computer and a set of cards to play with at the kitchen table. Download the cards here: minecraftmemorymatchcards The sets are as follows: set for multiples of four – shown through the woodplanks in multiples of four plus the logs which can be used to craft them.set for multiples of six – shown through the woodplanks in multiples of six plus the stairs which can be crafted from them. The cards can be used for a memory match game. Variations: 1. 2. Start with an empty inventory, except for 16 logs. Open up a chest. Next step: Stairs.