Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 1 to 6 | Year 5

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 1 to 6 of Year 5. With 90 questions spread across the 6 weeks you have 3 questions a day to show in an editable PowerPoint presentation. They follow a clear progression in terms of both content domain and cognitive demand and will introduce pupils to a wide variety of reasoning and problem solving question types.

This daily practice resource is designed to help overcome pupils’ barriers to reasoning and problem solving in KS2 and to develop confidence in tackling the varied and complex questions that they may encounter in their KS2 SATs.

Like all Third Space Learning resources, Rapid Reasoning follows a maths mastery approach. Pupils are encouraged to develop depth in a single topic over the course of a week to allow them to build up their knowledge gradually.

Rapid Reasoning was created as a partner resource to the very popular Fluent in Five. Regular daily practice of 10 to 20 minutes, when possible, will help you to achieve the best results.

The resource also includes support in teaching problem solving and reasoning as well as worked examples to help scaffold and develop pupils’ skills.

Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

Full 36 week set available with premium

Topic breakdown per week

• Week 1: Focuses on recognising and writing Roman numerals up to 1,000,000 and exploring numbers up to 1,000,000.

• Week 2: Concentrates on counting in powers of 10 steps, finding numbers more or less by 10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000, partitioning numbers, using number lines, and comparing and ordering numbers up to 100,000.

• Week 3: Focuses on comparing and ordering numbers up to 1,000,000, rounding to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000, and interpreting negative numbers in context.

• Week 4: Focuses on using mental strategies for addition and subtraction, adding and subtracting whole numbers with more than four digits, and checking answers through rounding and inverse operations.

• Week 5: Highlights using rounding and inverse operations to check calculations, solving multi-step addition and subtraction problems, comparing calculations, and finding missing numbers.

• Week 6: Centres on identifying multiples and factors, including common multiples and factors of two numbers, and recognising prime numbers.