Let us help support you with the tricky concept of mental strategies using this Year 5 Mental Strategies teaching resource.

This slideshow begins by looking at when it is appropriate to use a mental strategy to calculate and draws on children's knowledge and understanding of number facts and related bonds to help. The teaching sequence then moves on to focus on the strategy of adjusting and compensating.

Questions are provided throughout this resource to enable children to apply their new learning and enable teaching staff to identify and address any misconceptions the children may have.