Balancing Sums - Mathsframe

Balancing Sums

An excellent tool for reinforcing an understanding of the role of the equals sign. Choose one objective, or many. You can choose all the objectives for a single year group (or multiple year groups). You can also choose to balance between different types of calculations (eg addition and multiplication).

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Game Objectives

New Maths Curriculum:

Year 2: Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100

Year 3: Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones; a three-digit number and tens; a three-digit number and hundreds

Year 4: Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.

Year 5: Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers

Year 6: Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Primary Framework Objectives:

Year 2:

Add or subtract mentally a one-digit number or a multiple of 10 to or from any two-digit number; use practical and informal written methods to add and subtract two-digit numbers

Understand that subtraction is the inverse of addition and vice versa; use this to derive and record related addition and subtraction number sentences

Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division in contexts of numbers, measures or pounds and pence

Understand Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to at least 10, all pairs with totals to 20 and all pairs of multiples of 10 with totals up to 100

Year 3:
Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of 10 and number pairs that total 100

Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time, choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations

Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers

Year 4:
Add or subtract mentally pairs of two-digit whole numbers

Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time; choose and carry out appropriate calculations, using calculator methods where appropriate

Use knowledge of addition and subtraction facts and place value to derive sums and differences of pairs of multiples of 10, 100 or 1000

Year 5:

Use efficient written methods to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals with up to two places

Solve one-step and two-step problems involving whole numbers and decimals and all four operations, choosing and using appropriate calculation strategies, including calculator use

Year 6:

Calculate mentally with integers and decimals U.t ± U.t, TU × U, TU ÷ U, U.t × U, U.t ÷ U

Solve multi-step problems, and problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages; choose and use appropriate calculation strategies at each stage, including calculator use