Weight and Mass – Year 1 – White Rose Maths

This resource contains a fully editable 55-slide PowerPoint lesson on weight and mass for Year 1 pupils. It has been designed to support the delivery of the Year 1 Measurement – Weight – Block 4 – Spring Term White Rose (WRM) ‘small steps’ programme. This resource is for Week 10.

The PowerPoint contains explanations and tasks linked to the White Rose small steps with an emphasis on the mastery approach to learning advocated by the White Rose scheme and includes reasoning and problem-solving tasks.

The resources focus on the following objectives and small steps:

Year 1 Maths National Curriculum Objectives

Measurement: Weight

Measure and begin to record mass/weight
Compare, describe and solve practical problems for mass/weight:

White Rose Small Steps

Introduce weight and mass
Measure mass
Compare mass

The worksheets are designed to enable the pupils to achieve the following learning outcomes:

Pupils use the following terms to describe and compare weight – heavier, lighter, heaviest, lightest, mass.
Pupils use non-standard units such as cubes, bricks, pencils to measure and compare the weight and mass of objects.
Pupils use reasoning and problem solving skills to work out solutions to weight and mass problems.

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You may also be interested in a set of 24 accompanying worksheets:

Year 1 Measurement – Weight – Spring Term – Set of 24 Worksheets

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