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Maths Mentals Maker
Easily create daily maths mentals worksheets, download and print for your students! This generator has been designed to help teachers from year 1 to year 6!
How to Use the Maths Mentals Maker in Your Classroom
Our amazing Maths Mentals Generator widget will save you bucket loads of time with your planning and prep! These age-appropriate maths questions will keep your students’ brains firing. Number, shape, chance and data… your students will have no excuse for not practicing their maths general knowledge.
Select when and how frequently to test your students! With this wonderful maths questions generator, you can choose the days of the week to hold a test, as well as the number of weeks you want to run your maths mental quiz. For even more customisation, you can choose your school font and year level.
The maths problems widget is perfect to create a daily maths warm-up routine or as a pre-test to see how much knowledge your students have before you teach a new topic.
What Is the Mental Strategy in Maths?
Are you looking for tips to explain what it means to use a mental strategy in maths? Here’s a simple way to explain mental maths to your students:
Mental maths is the name we use for the calculations done in your head to solve a maths problem. Instead of using a piece of paper and pencil or pulling out a calculator to help find the answer, in maths mentals, we use only our cognitive abilities to manipulate numbers and find solutions!
There are dozens of different mental strategies and techniques we can use in maths — depending on the operation.
For example, if you are faced with addition sums, you may use the number bonds strategy of mental maths, which involves breaking down numbers into their component parts.
Other maths mental strategies you may use include (but are not limited to!):
- Cross Cancelling
- Doubling and Halving
- Estimating
- Rounding
Instructions for Using the Maths Mentals Generator
Follow these simple steps to create your own random maths problems:
- Select the font, number of weeks, and days
- Adjust the question difficulty by changing the Year Level
- Click the download button in the top right-hand corner
- Open the PDF file you have just downloaded in Adobe Reader
More Maths Mentals Activities for Your Lesson Plans
Are you looking for maths mentals activities that have already been created? The maths teachers of Teach Starter have you covered! Explore a few of our favourites:
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Could this resource be altered to enable teachers to select a maths strand or topic to include. For example, only addition up to 3-digit numbers, mixed operations with 2-digit numbers, fractions, time etc.
Bec P · Apr 14th, 2023
Hi Rebekah,
Thanks for the suggestion! To submit a change suggestion, please visit the ‘Submit a change’ tab on the resource page. If you have any questions, please feel free to send our support team a message through the chat icon at the bottom of the screen. Thanks!
Laica Ayo · Apr 20th, 2023
Does this work yet?????? I would like to create a maths mental daily booklet?
Sarah Munro · Feb 18th, 2023
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your message. I can confirm that the Maths Mentals Generator is working – if you’re still having issues accessing the generator, could I get you to reach out to our support team via our chat icon, or via [email protected]? That we can delve a little deeper to ensure this works for you 🙂
Thanks!
Sam
Sam Acres · Feb 20th, 2023
Kindergarten mentals do not show questions only template.
Barbara McGregor · Jul 26th, 2022
Hi Barbara, thank you for reaching out. We are currently experiencing an issue with our Maths Mentals Generator. Our engineering team is working to address the issue. Thank you for your patience.
Stephanie (Teach Starter) · Jul 27th, 2022
I cannot seem to generate the weekly math sheets.
I hit play, but the download button is not coming up?
Thanks
Tanya Bott · Jun 14th, 2022
Hi Tanya, We’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble. Please contact us at [email protected] and we’ll help you work through the problem.
Emma (Teach Starter) · Jun 14th, 2022
The ‘play’ link is not working.
Judith Grimes · Jun 14th, 2022
Hi Judith, We’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble. Please contact us at [email protected] and we’ll help you work through the problem.
Emma (Teach Starter) · Jun 14th, 2022
When selecting Kinder/Preschool as a year level only a blank template is produced.
Amanda Farquhar · Jun 9th, 2022
Hi Amanda! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I have passed on the information to the relevant team. Feel free to check out the Grade 1 option to see if it may be suitable in the meantime. 🙂
Brittany Collins · Jun 10th, 2022
The year 6 sheets seem to cut off the last question on each page.
Brooke Holmes · Apr 27th, 2022
Hi Brooke,
Thank you for letting us know, I will raise this with the team. In the meantime, I have found when you use Comic Sans (everyone’s favourite), the questions are less likely to be cut off at the bottom.
I understand that you are probably using the school fonts based on your state but I hope that helps while we get it fixed.
Tom (Teach Starter) · Apr 28th, 2022