How to use this book

Daily Workouts is designed to offer teachers a curated collection of activities to support mental computation and mathematical thinking. The activities are intended as 5- to 10-minute introductions or warm-ups in which the teacher and students are engaged in discussion and explanation.

Activities

Activities are organised by primary year group, strand, concept, topic and year level. A handy thumb tab helps to identify each year group – Lower, Middle and Upper. Supplementary activities can also be found on Oxford Owl, along with digital resources, including curriculum links, to support all of the activities.

Materials

Each activity includes a list of materials to allow teachers to prepare in advance – it is assumed that everyday classroom materials such as paper, pencils, counters, Unifix or Multilink cubes and Base 10 materials are readily available.

Instructions

Each activity includes clear and simple instructions and a script featuring teacher dialogue and student responses that may lead to more class discussion and consideration of the problem or question. (Sometimes the answer is provided for quick reference, too.) Suggestions for variations and extension are also included where relevant.

Title

List of materials needed

Instructions

Teacher dialogue and possible student responses

Diagram

Variation activity

BLMs

All BLMs are available online at www.oxfordowl.com.au.

They include number cards, grids and templates, such as 3 × 3 grids, 4 × 4 grids, multiplication chart, hundreds chart, ten-frames, ten-strips and arrays.