ANY BOOKLISTS HERE ARE FOR THE OLDER WEEKLY PLANS – they are NOT for the new Flexible Blocks which have their own booklists accessible here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/flexible-blocks-booklists/
Problem-solving Investigations - Year 1
The problem-solving investigations below match Hamilton’s weekly maths plans. We now also provide Year 1 maths as short blocks. We will eventually be phasing out the plans, as we believe our short blocks offer you all of the same advantages and more, including the integration of the problem-solving investigations into each unit of study. Find out more about the advantages of Hamilton's short blocks.
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Children fill a matchbox with items and count them accurately.
Children use trial and improvement to find different ways of making a given total by adding three numbers.
Make a stikc (1): Children find a collection of items which in total measure exactly one metre in length. They estimate which items will fill gaps, using trial and improvement. Flip and flop (2): Children cut shapes from a shape and create symmetrical patterns.
Children find dominoes where one side has one more spot than the other, and then where one side has two more spots than the other.
Children use reasoning and logic to play ahead in playing a game on a 1-20 track.
Children double numbers 1 to 5 as part of a game, and find which answers from 1 to 10 are possible.
Children make a sequence of coloured shapes, changing one attribute at a time so that the sequence can end where it started, forming a circular sequence.
Children explore number patterns when counting on or back 2, 3 and 4. They use two colours to represent even/odd numbers.
Children make loops of dominoes such that meeting ends have a given total number of spots.
Square tens (1): Children find pairs of dominoes such that the total number of spots is 10. Domino digits (2): Children find which numbers on a 1 - 100 grid they can make using dominoes - each domino can only be used once.