Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 7 to 12 | Year 5

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 7 to 12 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 7: Focuses on recognising and using square and cube numbers, multiplying by 10, 100, and 1,000, and dividing by 10 and 100.
• Week 8: Concentrates on dividing by 100 and 1,000, solving problems involving multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000, and recapping common factors, multiples, square and cube numbers.
• Week 9: Emphasises finding fractions equivalent to unit and non-unit fractions, recognising equivalent fractions, and converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Week 10: Highlights comparing and ordering fractions less than 1, including those greater than 1, and adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator or within 1.
• Week 11: Focuses on adding fractions with a total greater than 1, adding integers to mixed numbers, adding two mixed numbers, and subtracting fractions with different denominators.
• Week 12: Concentrates on subtracting fractions from mixed numbers, including breaking the whole for subtraction, and solving multi-step problems with fractions.