Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 31 to 36 | Year 5

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 31 to 36 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 31: Focuses on subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places, adding and subtracting decimals with different numbers of decimal places, and identifying efficient strategies for these operations.

• Week 32: Concentrates on exploring decimal sequences, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1000, and working with decimals in multiplication and division with missing or different values.

• Week 33: Emphasises exploring negative numbers in real-life contexts, counting through zero in ones and multiples, comparing and ordering negative numbers, and finding differences between positive and negative numbers.

• Week 34: Highlights converting between grams and kilograms, meters and kilometres, millimetres, centimetres, and meters, and millilitres and litres, and converting units of length.

• Week 35: Focuses on converting between metric and imperial units, converting units of time, and calculating with timetables.

• Week 36: Concentrates on exploring volume as cubic centimetres, comparing volumes, estimating volume and capacity, and understanding the relationship between these measurements.