Here’s another working wall example. Today’s is a maths working wall. We are currently practising the 9 times table for my son in Year 4, as well as looking at some assessment questions. The format that these questions take drives me a little bonkers, as it seems designed to ‘trip up’ the children, but once you know and practise the format it becomes a lot simpler for them.

So, top left we have a missing number equation. This is tricky because the answer is given and is presented to the children in the middle of the equation, so they have to do some problem-solving to work out the missing numbers (in blue).

Underneath this, we have been practising: 10 more, 10 less, 100 more and 100 less for my daughter. This can be made more difficult by starting with a number such as 1989, where you will have to cross to the next thousand.

Lastly, we have what should be a simple partitioning exercise. I say ‘should’ because when they are presented like this with missing number, children tend to ‘over-think’ the problem. In this case, it was a simple case of adding the hundreds and adding the units/ones.