Boost fluency, reasoning and confidence with the YEAR 3 MENTAL MATHS DAILY 5 POWERPOINT – a comprehensive digital resource designed to cover all key concepts from the Year 3 Mathematics Curriculum. This set of 100 individual mental maths lessons, each featuring five targeted questions, offers structured, consistent practice to help students strengthen their number skills, problem-solving abilities and mental computation strategies. With four lessons per slide, this PowerPoint is ideal for weekly planning and delivery, making it easy to integrate into your daily maths routine.

Using your interactive whiteboard, simply display the slides and work through each lesson with your class. The predictable format encourages student independence while offering the flexibility to use the resource for whole-class modelling, small group instruction or independent review. Students can record their answers in notebooks, on mini whiteboards or using the accompanying Year 3 Mental Maths Recording Sheets, allowing you to track progress and tailor your instruction accordingly.

With a strong focus on curriculum coverage and mental agility, the YEAR 3 MENTAL MATHS DAILY 5 POWERPOINT provides exposure to a wide range of mathematical content including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, number patterns, fractions, time, money, measurement and data. It’s perfect for warm-ups, fast finishers, revision blocks or as a weekly challenge to consolidate learning over time. Whether you’re building fluency, revisiting prior content or preparing for assessments, this resource makes mental maths instruction easy and effective.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Reinforce mental strategies for all four operations
• ✅ Build fluency and confidence with number facts and place value
• ✅ Practise telling time, calculating with money, and interpreting data
• ✅ Strengthen mathematical reasoning through daily exposure and discussion
• ✅ Use consistent routines to boost independence and classroom flow

What’s Included:

• PowerPoint file containing 100 individual mental maths lessons
• Five questions per lesson targeting Year 3 mathematics outcomes
• Link to printable recording sheet for student responses

Materials Needed:

• Interactive whiteboard or device to display the PowerPoint
• Student whiteboards, notebooks or printed recording sheets
• Optional: timers or group discussion time for strategic thinking

How to Use:

1. Open the PowerPoint and choose the appropriate lesson for the day or week.
2. Project the five questions for the class and give students time to solve.
3. Use whiteboards, journals or the recording sheet for student responses.
4. Discuss answers as a class and encourage students to share strategies.
5. Repeat daily for routine fluency practice or rotate slides weekly as part of a review cycle.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Start each maths block with one Daily 5 lesson as a warm-up
• 💡 Assign to small groups during rotations for independent skill practice
• 💡 Use different coloured markers for correcting and editing responses
• 💡 Include in fast finisher folders or maths challenge stations
• 💡 Review tricky questions together using a think-pair-share strategy

Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Save completed slides into term folders for easy lesson tracking
• 💛 Print recording sheets in weekly packs or staple into student workbooks
• 💛 Celebrate fluency growth by tracking student progress over time
• 💛 Reinforce strategy language (e.g. "I used doubling" or "I broke the number apart") during class reviews

YEAR 3 MENTAL MATHS DAILY 5 POWERPOINT brings structure, variety and confidence to your classroom – supporting maths fluency with just five questions a day!