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Addition and subtraction

  • Doubles
  • Bridging decades
    • Up through ten
    • Back through ten
  • Up through ten
  • Back through ten
  • Standard place value
    • Using tens
    • Parking ones and moving tens
    • The power of ten
    • Renaming to add and subtract
  • Using tens
  • Parking ones and moving tens
  • The power of ten
  • Renaming to add and subtract
  • Friendly numbers
  • Subtraction as difference
    • Differences
    • Equal differences
  • Differences
  • Equal differences
  • Making choices

Multiplication and division

  • Visualising arrays
    • What do you see?
    • Partial arrays
  • What do you see?
  • Partial arrays
  • Building connections
    • How many possible ways?
    • Splitting arrays
  • How many possible ways?
  • Splitting arrays
  • Making generalisations
    • Investigating patterns
    • Facts within facts
    • Divisibility patterns
  • Investigating patterns
  • Facts within facts
  • Divisibility patterns
  • Number fact fluency
    • Facts and models
    • What do I know?
  • Facts and models
  • What do I know?
  • Making suitable choices

Combined operations

  • Repeated operations
  • Mixing operations

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