Y5 Maths
This Year 5 Adding and Subtracting Wholes and Decimals lesson covers the prior learning of finding complements to 1 and adding and subtracting decimals with different decimal places, before moving onto the main skill of adding and subtracting wholes and decimals.
The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning by completing an engaging extension task.
National Curriculum Objective
Mathematics Year 5: (5F10) Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
Mathematics Year 5: (5M9a) Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [for example, length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling
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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of finding complements to 1 and adding and subtracting decimals with different decimal places, before moving onto the main skill of adding and subtracting wholes and decimals. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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This powerpoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the Varied Fluency and Reasoning & Problem Solving worksheets as part of this lesson.
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These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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This worksheet recaps prior learning of finding complements to 1 and adding and subtracting decimals with different decimal places, before moving onto the main skill of adding and subtracting wholes and decimals.
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This Year 5 Complements to 1 Game is designed to check pupils' understanding of adding together decimal numbers to create complements to 1.
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This Year 5 Adding Decimals with Different Decimal Places Game checks pupils' understanding of adding decimals together where the decimal numbers have different decimal places.
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This Year 5 Subtracting Different Decimal Places Game checks pupils' understanding of subtracting decimals which have a different number of decimal places.
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This adding and subtracting wholes and decimals supporting activities sheet contains suggestions for additional tasks you might wish to use to support pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the lesson.
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This worksheet includes differentiated varied fluency questions for pupils to practise adding same decimal places in context.
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This Year 5 Adding and Subtracting Wholes and Decimals Activity is designed to check pupils’ understanding of adding and subtracting whole and decimals.
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This adding and subtracting wholes and decimals extension task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the adding and subtracting wholes and decimals lesson.
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This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of adding and subtracting wholes and decimals.
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This differentiated worksheet includes reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This complements to 1 Discussion Problems includes two discussion problems which can be used in pairs or small groups to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in this lesson.
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This Year 5 Adding and Subtracting Wholes and Decimals Maths Challenge checks pupils' understanding of adding and subtracting wholes and decimals within a problem solving context.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This Summer week 4 Maths pack contains varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving worksheets.
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This Decimals Consolidation Year 5 resource will help your pupils consolidate their understanding of Summer Block 1: Decimals