Maths Mastery and
Anna Ablethorpe,
Sophie Lynch
& Emma Nicholls
Linking to the big picture
O Bringing the picture alive
O Characterisation
O Puppets
O Role play
O Story telling
Consider…
O Where can characters or themes be used in
order to bring the big picture alive?
O How or where can puppets be used to
engage pupils?
O Where can enjoyment and engagement
through role play and practical problem
solving be added?
O Is there an opportunity to make links to
situations or people, real or imagined?
Goldilocks
Unit 1: Numbers and number bonds to 10, lesson 7
O Develop learning SEQUENCING
Use the Goldilocks puppet to count and
sequence the plastic bowls and spoons. Will
she be naughty and complete the sequence
and eat the bears porridge?
Can she work out how many
Should go in the gap ?
Estimating Elsie Elephant helped the children check and count with her ‘nodding trunk’.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Unit 2: Adding and subtracting within 10, lesson 11
O Addition and subtraction equations.
O 5+2=7, 2+5=7, 7-2=5, 7-5=2
O Princess costumes and Dwarf headbands
Develop learning
O Fun with dressing up!
O Creating fact families through story telling
and role play.
O Worded problems and equations.
LEARNING CLIP
Consolidation and Plenary
O Children use images from the story of
Snow White to build equations, using pictures
to support the abstract representation.
O Word Problems – written & role play
7 Dwarves
Wicked Queens potions
Poisonous apples
Learning clip
Hansel and Gretel during Healthy week
Unit 3: Shapes and Patterns, lesson 9
O Patterns small medium big O Planning a healthy picnic for the 100 Acre
Wood characters.
O PROBLEM POSED: Can the class help create
a pattern party for OWL using Rabbits
healthy food from his allotment for the party.
Rabbit wants to know, “What has stayed the same in this pattern? What has changed?”
O Different size tea party plates
O Different sized and coloured
O tomatoes in shades of red, orange and
yellow.
O Different characters in varying sizes.
Unit 4: Numbers to 20 Lesson 4: Order and
patterns Adapted New learning More / less
Skipping rope with numbers 0 – 20 on . Jack puppet needs help to help count forwards and backwards.
Jack makes towers with cubes and compares them,
looking at the pattern increasing or
decreasing.
Learning clip
That was our turn, now it’s your turn …
Before you start…..
UNITS 7 & 8
Red Riding
Hood
Jack and the
Beanstalk
O Story books
O Costume
O Basket
O Finger puppets
O Indoor / outdoor
O Visiting character
O Story books
O Finger puppets
O Masks
O Magic beans / flower pots
O money sacks/ coins
O Indoor / outdoor
O Hall space
Time Unit 7
Numbers to
Red Riding Hood Jack and the Beanstalk
Collecting ideas
TIME TO SHARE
Unit 7 ideas O Puppets throughout
O Big book with clock faces stuck in to match the big picture. (lesson 1)
O Role play costumes and props, re-enactment of the scenes in big picture and on task sheets. (task 2)
O What’s the time Mr Wolf. (plenary)
O The time is ??? Will the time be ??? An hour or later, earlier – hall game like NSEW, run to the word or time (lesson 2)
O Game play – make a spinner game (lesson 2 task sheet 3)
O ICT diaries, children record/ photograph events at familiar times of day , use as a stimulus (task sheet 4b)
Unit 7 ideas
O Granny's Day interview – Visitor in role/costume (lesson 3)
O A day in the life of Mr Wolf – visitor in role
O Large scale activities – game play, match times, verb sentences and pictures . (hall / playground) (lesson 4)
O Large calendar for children to stand on the correct day of the month. (lucky dip a question and stand on the correct spot.
O Jigsaw or domino games for task sheets (task sheet 5)
O Panto style, HOTSEATING : I eat my evening meal at half past 2 in the afternoon? Oh yes you would, Oh no you wouldn’t. Big thumb – up or down. (lesson 4)
O Game show – True or false. We eat dinner in the evening. (task 6)
O Which is the correct time on the clock face – stand in line.
O Red Riding Hoods birthday party – theme day
Unit 8 ideas O Counting beans into flower pots or money into money
bags (lesson 1)
O Egg shakers or toy eggs, large egg trays (task 3a)
O Children with number sacks
O Child with chicken mask, laying eggs to generate
numbers , whole / part (Lesson 2) egg shakers in
arrays (lesson 6 )
O Use images and objects from story to make equations.
O Make a bean stalk using tube and leaves (lesson 3)
O Large scale beanstalk in hall or playground. Pairs find
leaves, identify the number, saying how many tens and
ones. Compare to another pairs number is it more
/less. Children place number on the stalk in the
correct position via questioning and clues. (lesson 3)
Unit 8 ideas
O 0 – 40 Washing line. Choose a number between 15 and 20 - Child wearing a character mask stands with an arrow at that point. 2nd child stand between 35 and 40 (arrow/marker). Children with jack puppet count between the markers. Alternative use playground chalk and cones. (lesson 3)
O Hop scotch , chalk on the playground or number tiles. (task 8a)
O Have numbers stuck around the hall , teacher shows the sign, one more than 15 is … children run to the number (lesson 3)
O Children wearing masks hold the numbers. Ask questions, such as which number is greatest. The child with that number makes a sound / action . (lesson 4)
O Numbers inside Jacks sack (task 10)
Anna Ablethorpe
Sophie Lynch
Tel: 01702 478379