Three squishy-themed, open-ended addition and subtraction investigations for Years 5 and 6, with Bronze, Silver and Gold tasks, cut-out digit cards and full answers.
Get kids reasoning, not just calculating! In this squishy-themed pack, kids add and subtract numbers over 10,000 across three open-ended investigations. Most tasks have more than one answer, so there's plenty to talk about.
What's inside (12 pages)
What's inside & how to use it, with top tips for grown-ups and a Bronze, Silver and Gold guide
The Squishy Warehouse: Sprinkles has £100,000 to spend on crates. Kids find combinations, work out change, spend exactly £100,000 and play change detective
Warehouse recording sheet with column method grids
Squish Dash Leaderboard: find differences, closest scores, a mystery total and every group of three within a range
Digit Squish: use digit cards 0–9 to make the biggest total, the smallest difference and get as close to 100,000 as possible
Cut-out digit cards (2 sets)
Progress tracker with "I can" statements
Full answers, including every possible solution where kids are asked to find them all
Three squishy-themed, open-ended addition and subtraction investigations for Years 5 and 6, with Bronze, Silver and Gold tasks, cut-out digit cards and full answers.
Get kids reasoning, not just calculating! In this squishy-themed pack, kids add and subtract numbers over 10,000 across three open-ended investigations. Most tasks have more than one answer, so there's plenty to talk about.
What's inside (12 pages)
What's inside & how to use it, with top tips for grown-ups and a Bronze, Silver and Gold guide
The Squishy Warehouse: Sprinkles has £100,000 to spend on crates. Kids find combinations, work out change, spend exactly £100,000 and play change detective
Warehouse recording sheet with column method grids
Squish Dash Leaderboard: find differences, closest scores, a mystery total and every group of three within a range
Digit Squish: use digit cards 0–9 to make the biggest total, the smallest difference and get as close to 100,000 as possible
Cut-out digit cards (2 sets)
Progress tracker with "I can" statements
Full answers, including every possible solution where kids are asked to find them all