Number Skills Blackline Master Set
105 Blackline Masters with permission to photocopy for classroom use (PDF format).
This is a structured set of activity sheets aimed at helping students master the 20 key number skills below:
(Syllabus Code for NSW school is NS2.1 to NS2.4)
- Writing words as numbers
- Ordering numbers
- Less than, greater than
- Rounding
- Addition mental strategies - split
- Addition mental strategies - compensate
- Addition algorithms
- Subtraction algorithms
- Factors
- Tables to 10
- Multiply with multiples of 10
- Multiply a single digit with any 2 digit number
- Recording answers which include remainders
- Recording remainders to division problems
- Ordering unit fractions
- Adding units, tenths and hundredths
- Adding decimals to up to 2 decimal places
- Subtracting decimals up to 2 decimal places
- Subtracting money
- Rounding decimals
This software has been developed by the seller who is a Maths teacher and programmer. It is a systematic way of identifying weaknesses in numeracy skills, then targeting these weaknesses with skill-building activity sheets.
Here is the method:
1. Give students a diagnostic test.
2. Mark (answer sheets provided).
3. Identify the skills that have not yet been mastered.
4. Remediate.
5. Consolidate with the targeted activity sheets provided.
6. Give another diagnostic test to measure progress.
All activity sheets are in the form of PDF files that can be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader (Free Download).