Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 31 to 36 | Year 3

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 31 to 36 of Year 3.

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 KS2.

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 31: Focuses on calculating start and end times from given durations, exploring minutes and seconds, comparing units of time, and solving problems with time.
• Week 32: Covers understanding the link between turns and angles, recognising right angles, comparing angles, measuring and drawing straight lines accurately, and recognising vertical and horizontal lines.
• Week 33: Involves recognising parallel and perpendicular lines, describing 2D and 3-D shapes, drawing polygons, and making 3-D shapes.
• Week 34: Focuses on interpreting and drawing pictograms, as well as interpreting and drawing bar charts.
• Week 35: Continues with drawing bar charts, collecting and representing data, and interpreting two-way tables.
• Week 36: Focuses on adding and subtracting 2 and 3-digit numbers, multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number, dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number, finding equivalent fractions, and finding non-unit fractions of an amount.