Traditional tales: what happens next?
Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood
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Stage-by-stage text types, coursebook connections and TumbleTA teaching plans for Cambridge Primary English 0058.
Stage 1
TumbleTA English teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
In your coursebook
Cambridge-endorsed coursebook connections used by TumbleTA plans at this Stage.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Incy Wincy Spider)Cambridge Primary English, Learner's Book 1 (Hodder Education)
Unit plan
Traditional rhymes: join in, clap, spot the rhyme
The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Old Mother Hubbard, This Old Man
- 1Ri.14Notice rhyme and repeated lines while joining in with familiar stories and poems.
- 1Rv.05Listen for and talk about sounds, rhyming words and rhythm in texts.
- 1Ra.02Say along with repeated words and phrases in familiar stories and poems.
- 1SLp.02Say simple poems from memory, keeping to the rhythm.
Coursebook link: Hodder Stage 1 includes a traditional rhymes unit and uses Incy Wincy Spider (the British title of The Itsy Bitsy Spider).
- Join in: Incy Wincy Spider1Ra.02
- Find the rhyming words1Rv.05
- Clap the rhythm1Rv.05
- Spot the repeated lines1Ri.14
- Say it from memory1SLp.02
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Unit plans
Several books taught in sequence.
Book plans
One book, one lesson, with a short version.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Incy Wincy Spider)
Say simple poems from memory, keeping to the rhythm.
One Duck Stuck
Notice rhyme and repeated lines while joining in with familiar stories and poems.
Red is Best
Name the main characters and say what happens to them.
Mama, Do You Love Me?
Start to say how a story's place and events are like or unlike real life.
First Day Jitters
Say what might happen next in a story.
How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich
Begin writing for a clear purpose, using the simple features that text type needs.
Poetry plans in productionOne unit plan and ten poem plans are reserved here until the read-alongs and source texts are ready.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Rhyme and repeated opening line; say it together
Plan placeholder — in productionWho Has Seen the Wind?
Question-and-answer pattern; seeing the wind by what it moves
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A four-line poem to learn by heart
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Swing
Rhythm that moves like a swing
Plan placeholder — in productionAt the Seaside
Linking a poem to learners' own experience
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Rhyming pairs; describing an animal
Plan placeholder — in productionHappy Thought
A two-line poem; what makes the speaker happy
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Who is awake at night; rhyming pairs
Plan placeholder — in productionWhat Are Heavy?
Question-and-answer pattern; heavy and brief things
Plan placeholder — in productionWhat Does the Bee Do?
Repeated question pattern; who does what
Plan placeholder — in productionWeather and night-sky poems
Poetry — poems on a shared theme
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TumbleTA English teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
Tricksters around the world
Anansí and the Pot of Beans, Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Clever Beatrice
- 2Ra.05Understand that stories can come from other times and other places.
- 2Ri.08Describe where a story happens and who is in it.
- 2Ri.12Work out simple things the text does not say, from what characters say and do.
- 2Wc.03Add simple descriptions of places and characters to own stories.
- Where does this story come from?2Ra.05
- How the trick works2Ri.12
- Setting and character2Ri.08
- Write your own trickster2Wc.03
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Several books taught in sequence.
One author, many stories: Robert Munsch
The Paper Bag Princess, Mud Puddle, Stephanie's Ponytail, Moira's Birthday
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How animals survive: reading information texts
Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg, Animals in Camouflage, Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate?: How Animals Keep Warm
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
Other Goose
Talk about patterns such as rhyme and repetition in simple stories and poems.
When Turtle Grew Feathers
Understand that stories can come from other times and other places.
The Ghost Catcher
Describe where a story happens and who is in it.
Burro's Tortillas
Pick out the main events and use them to retell a story out loud.
A Sack Full of Feathers
Work out simple things the text does not say, from what characters say and do.
Poetry plans in productionOne unit plan and ten poem plans are reserved here until the read-alongs and source texts are ready.
My Shadow
A shadow described as if it were a person
Plan placeholder — in productionBed in Summer
Rhyming couplets; comparing winter and summer
Plan placeholder — in productionWindy Nights
Galloping rhythm and repetition
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Land of Counterpane
Imagining a whole world on a bed
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Owl and the Pussy-cat
Nonsense words, refrain and a story in verse
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Quangle Wangle's Hat
Invented creatures and repeated patterns
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Pobble Who Has No Toes
A nonsense story in verse; predicting what happens
Plan placeholder — in productionHow Doth the Little Crocodile
A short comic poem; what the crocodile is really doing
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Spider and the Fly
A story told in dialogue; what the spider really wants
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Caterpillar
Describing words; talking to a creature
Plan placeholder — in productionNonsense and fun: Lear and Carroll
Poetry — humorous poems
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TumbleTA English teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
Same story, different tellers
Rumpelstiltskin (Brothers Grimm), Rumpelstiltskin (Xavier Carrasco), The Three Bears, Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas, Rapunzel, Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs, The Ugly Duckling, The Uglified Ducky
- 3Ra.05Compare different versions of the same story and how when and where they were told shapes them.
- 3Ri.08Explain how a story builds up its setting and characters.
- 3Rs.01Describe how events or ideas connect to what came before or after.
- 3Ri.16Answer questions by pointing to a specific place in the text.
- Two Rumpelstiltskins3Ra.05
- Goldilocks moves: The Three Bears and Goldy Luck3Ri.08
- Rapunzel meets another story3Rs.01
- The Ugly Duckling, told straight and told funny3Ri.16
- Which version works best, and why?3Ra.05
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Retelling sets in the library
RumpelstiltskinRumpelstiltskin (Brothers Grimm) and Rumpelstiltskin (Xavier Carrasco) and Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin and The Multiplying Menace Divides
Little Red Riding HoodLittle Red Riding Hood and Little Red in Cyber Space
Goldilocks and the Three BearsThe Three Bears and Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas
RapunzelRapunzel and Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs
The Ugly DucklingThe Ugly Duckling and The Uglified Ducky
Jack and the BeanstalkJack and the Beanstalk and Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant
The Three Billy Goats GruffBully Goat Grim and The Three Silly Billies
PinocchioThe Adventures of Pinocchio and Pinocchio
Unit plans
Several books taught in sequence.
One author, many stories: Kate DiCamillo's Mercy Watson
Mercy Watson to the Rescue, Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, Mercy Watson Fights Crime
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Letters
Dear Peter Rabbit, Peggy's Letters, Dear Sister
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Different texts, same topic: bees
Bee, The Bumblebee Queen, Life Cycle of a Honeybee
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
Rumpelstiltskin
Work out characters' feelings, thoughts and reasons from the text.
Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas
Compare different versions of the same story and how when and where they were told shapes them.
The Three Silly Billies: from story to playscript
Turn a story into a simple playscript.
Wildcat Run
Work out characters' feelings, thoughts and reasons from the text.
Mooncakes
Identify a text's theme and themes shared by different texts.
Cat Named Haiku
Recognise the main structural features of different kinds of texts, including poems and playscripts.
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Selected limericks
The five-line limerick shape and rhyme scheme
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Mouse's Tale
A poem printed in the shape of a tail
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Refrain and a voyage told in verse
Plan placeholder — in productionYou Are Old, Father William
A poem told as a conversation
Plan placeholder — in productionJabberwocky
Working out invented words from context
Plan placeholder — in productionPaper Boats
A child in Bengal sends boats down the stream
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Palanquin Bearers
Rhythm of carrying; Indian setting
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Lamb
Questions and answers; gentle sound
Plan placeholder — in productionA Bird Came Down the Walk
Close observation of a bird; surprising word choices
Plan placeholder — in productionDreams
What dreams are like; a short lyric
Plan placeholder — in productionPoems in different shapes and places
Poetry — poems with different structures; poems from different cultures
Plan placeholder — in productionStage 4
TumbleTA English teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
What would you do? Stories with dilemmas
A Bike like Sergio's, Enemy Pie, Stolen Words, After Peaches
- 4Ri.16Find and compare the themes and features of different texts.
- 4Ri.11Work out unstated things about a story's setting and characters.
- 4Ra.02Respond personally to a text, linking characters, settings and events to own experience.
- 4Wc.06Start to show a point of view in a story through what a character thinks of places or people.
Coursebook link: Hodder Stage 4 has a unit of stories with dilemmas: same text type, different titles.
- The choice in the story4Ri.11
- What the character decides, and why4Ra.02
- A bigger issue4Ri.16
- Comparing dilemmas4Ri.16
- Write the character's opinion4Wc.06
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Several books taught in sequence.
Stories from the past
Castle on Hester Street, Belle of Batoche, The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
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Diaries: Doreen Cronin's Diary books
Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, Diary of a Fly
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The Moon landing: story, report and information
Eight Days Gone, Margot and the Moon Landing, Faces of the Moon, Earthrise
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
The Magician's Elephant (opening chapters)
Explain how setting and characters are built up, picking out the words that do it.
A Bike like Sergio's
Work out unstated things about a story's setting and characters.
Stolen Words
Find and compare the themes and features of different texts.
The Story of Snow
Pick out the words and phrases that carry a text's main points.
Poetry plans in productionOne unit plan and ten poem plans are reserved here until the read-alongs and source texts are ready.
The Cataract of Lodore
Verbs that make water move and roar
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Eagle
A six-line picture; simile and alliteration
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Brook
A brook speaks; sound and movement
Plan placeholder — in productionI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Simile and a remembered scene
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Tyger
Questions, strong rhythm and fiery images
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Echoing Green
A day of play from morning to evening
Plan placeholder — in productionHope is the thing with feathers
Hope pictured as a bird
Plan placeholder — in productionThere Is No Frigate Like a Book
Reading as a journey
Plan placeholder — in productionIndian Weavers
Three verses, three times of life
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Village Blacksmith
Portrait of a working life in the past
Plan placeholder — in productionSeeing with words: imagery
Poetry — poems with imagery; poems from different times and cultures
Plan placeholder — in productionStage 5
TumbleTA English teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
In your coursebook
Cambridge-endorsed coursebook connections used by TumbleTA plans at this Stage.
The Jungle BookCambridge Primary English, Learner's Book 5 (Cambridge University Press)
Unit plan
Classics on page, stage and screen
The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island
- 5Ri.08Compare how playscripts and films work, including how they build characters and settings.
- 5Ra.04Start to consider how readers in different places or times might respond differently to a text.
- 5Ri.16Compare the themes, features and language of different texts.
- 5Wc.05Write a playscript with stage directions and production notes.
Coursebook link: Exact match: Cambridge University Press Stage 5 has a unit on The Jungle Book, comparing the book with a playscript.
- Why these books last5Ra.04
- From book to playscript5Ri.08
- From book to screen5Ri.08
- Comparing classics5Ri.16
- Script a scene5Wc.05
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Several books taught in sequence.
Fables: there's a lesson in that
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Fox And The Grapes, The Goose and the Golden Eggs, The Maid and the Milk Pail, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Contest Between the Sun and the Wind
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Lives worth telling: biography
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine, On a Beam of Light, Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, The Astronomer Who Questioned Everything: The Story of Maria Mitchell
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Stories from different cultures
Ruby's Wish, Book Uncle and Me, Catch that Chicken!, Salma the Syrian Chef
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Brothers
Make inferences, including about how characters relate to each other.
Black Beauty: the story a horse tells
Comment on how a point of view comes across in fiction and non-fiction.
Anne of Green Gables (opening chapters)
Comment on a writer's language choices, including how they create feeling and mood.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Recognise the main structural features of different texts, including poems and playscripts.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Compare fiction genres and what typically marks each one.
Poetry plans in productionOne unit plan and ten poem plans are reserved here until the read-alongs and source texts are ready.
The Way Through the Woods
A lost road and the mood it leaves behind
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Pied Piper of Hamelin
A long story poem; excerpts
Plan placeholder — in productionPaul Revere's Ride
Pace and suspense in a story poem
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Charge of the Light Brigade
Repetition and rhythm that sound like a charge
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Raven
Mood built through sound and repetition
Plan placeholder — in productionO Captain! My Captain!
Extended metaphor: the ship and its captain
Plan placeholder — in productionI Hear America Singing
A list poem of working voices
Plan placeholder — in productionLeisure
Rhyming couplets and a question about time
Plan placeholder — in productionLoveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
A cherry tree and counting the years
Plan placeholder — in productionI'm Nobody! Who are you?
A playful voice and a comparison with a frog
Plan placeholder — in productionPoems that tell a story
Poetry — narrative poetry
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TumbleTA English teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
Science fiction: then and now
The Time Machine, Tom Swift, Young Inventor: Space Hotel, Tom Swift, Young Inventor: Robot Olympics, Lowriders in Space #1
- 6Ri.03Compare fiction genres and what typically marks each one.
- 6Ri.10Make a range of reasonable inferences from texts.
- 6Ri.15Identify how a theme is shown both openly and indirectly.
- 6Ra.03Widen reading choices, including writers or genres that contrast with earlier reading.
- What makes it science fiction?6Ri.03
- Science fiction now6Ri.10
- What the story is really about6Ri.15
- A different kind of science fiction6Ra.03
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Several books taught in sequence.
Out of order: stories that move through time
Hana's Suitcase, The Tale of Despereaux
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A significant children's author: Kate DiCamillo
Because of Winn-Dixie, Tiger Rising, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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True lives: memoir and biography
Fatty Legs, A Stranger at Home, Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, Will's Words
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Work out unfamiliar phrases from context, including old-fashioned ones.
The Time Machine (opening chapters)
Work out unfamiliar phrases from context, including old-fashioned ones.
Sit
Comment on how different viewpoints come across in fiction and non-fiction.
Poetry plans in productionOne unit plan and ten poem plans are reserved here until the read-alongs and source texts are ready.
If—
One long sentence built from conditions
Plan placeholder — in productionInvictus
Theme of endurance; strong imagery
Plan placeholder — in productionOzymandias
Sonnet form, irony and a ruined statue
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Owl
A short song; repetition and night sounds
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Destruction of Sennacherib
Galloping rhythm and similes
Plan placeholder — in productionSonnet 18
The sonnet form; comparison through metaphor
Plan placeholder — in productionA Poison Tree
Anger grown into a tree: extended metaphor
Plan placeholder — in productionSympathy
The caged bird and what it stands for
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Lady of Shalott (excerpts)
Story, refrain and colour imagery
Plan placeholder — in productionThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner (excerpts)
Narrative, archaic language and sound
Plan placeholder — in productionBig ideas in small spaces
Poetry — poems with a range of features
Plan placeholder — in productionMathematics
Stage-by-stage strands and TumbleTA teaching plans for Cambridge Primary Mathematics 0096. Current mathematics resources cover Stages 1–3.
Stage 1
TumbleTA mathematics teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
Counting: how many?
Grandma's Tiny House, One is a Drummer: A Book of Numbers, Countasaurus, The Right Place for Albert
- 1Nc.01Count objects to 20, matching one number to each object and knowing the total stays the same when they are moved.
- 1Ni.01Say, read and write numbers and number words to 20.
- 1Nc.03Estimate how many objects or people (up to 20), then check by counting.
- TWM.04Convincing: give evidence to back up or challenge an idea or answer.
- Count them all1Nc.01
- Number words and numerals1Ni.01
- Estimate, then count1Nc.03
- One for each1Nc.01
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Several books taught in sequence.
Adding and taking away in stories
Albert Adds Up!, The Mousier the Merrier!, The Action of Subtraction, What’s the Difference?
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Halves
Give Me Half!, Half and Half Pizza Math, My Half Day, Half or Whole?
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Longer, heavier, fuller: comparing
Albert’s BIGGER Than Big Idea, Sizing Up Winter (Math in Nature), Mighty Maddie, A Beach for Albert
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Sorting and showing what we found
Sort it Out!, Mousy Mess, Grandma’s Button Box, Let's Make a Picture Graph
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Pattern Fish
Repeating patterns
Shapeasaurus
2D shapes
Where’s That Bone?
Position words
Albert Starts School
Days of the week
The Clock Struck One
O'clock and half past
Albert Doubles the Fun
Doubles
What Makes Ten?
Pairs that make ten
Zero, Zilch, Nada
Zero as none
Count Off, Squeak Scouts!
Ordinal numbers
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, School Day Math
Counting in twos
Stage 2
TumbleTA mathematics teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
Even and odd
Even or Odd?, Ruby Makes It Even, Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers, Underwater Counting: Even Numbers
- 2Nc.05Recognise what makes numbers even or odd (to 100).
- 2Nc.04Count on and back in ones, twos, fives or tens, from any number to 100.
- 2Nc.06Recognise, describe and continue number sequences to 100.
- TWM.02Generalising: spot a pattern that holds across many examples.
- What makes a number even?2Nc.05
- Making it even2Nc.05
- Counting the odd numbers2Nc.04
- The even-number sequence2Nc.06
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Unit plans
Several books taught in sequence.
Equal groups: multiplying and sharing
3x4, Count on Pablo, 2 X 2 = Boo!, Everybody Wins!
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Symmetry and shape
Seeing Symmetry, Let's Fly a Kite, Origami, A Fishy Mystery
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Collecting and showing data
Let's Make a Tally Chart, Tally Cat Keeps Track, The Great Graph Contest, Who’s Got Spots?
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Time
Seconds, Minutes, and Hours, A Second, a Minute, a Week with Days in It, Game Time!, It’s About Time, Max!
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
100 Days of School
Counting to 100
Counting With An Abacus
Tens and ones
A Place for Zero
Zero as a place holder
Make It 100!
Making 100 from tens
Shark Swimathon
Subtracting 2-digit numbers
What’s New at the Zoo?
Adding 2-digit numbers
If the Shoe Fits
Measuring with non-standard units
The Royal Treasure Measure
Measuring with non-standard units
X Marks the Spot!
Describing movement
Shaping Up Summer (Math in Nature)
2D and 3D shapes in nature
Stage 3
TumbleTA mathematics teaching plans for this Cambridge Stage.
Unit plan
Fractions of shapes and sets
Fraction's Goal -- Parts of a Whole, Whole-y Cow!, Jump, Kangaroo, Jump!, Clean-Sweep Campers
- 3Nf.03Understand fractions as equal parts of an amount or a set.
- 3Nf.01Understand fractions as equal parts that together make one whole.
- 3Nf.05Find a half, quarter, three-quarters, third or tenth of an amount.
- TWM.04Convincing: give evidence to back up or challenge an idea or answer.
- Parts that make a whole3Nf.01
- Fractions of one whole3Nf.01
- Fractions of a group3Nf.03
- Finding a fraction of an amount3Nf.05
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Unit plans
Several books taught in sequence.
Estimate first
Counting on Frank, How Many Jelly Beans?, Let's Estimate
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Multiplying and dividing
Multiply on the Fly, Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, The Multiplying Menace Divides, The Great Divide
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Perimeter and area
Chickens on the Move, Bigger, Better, Best!, Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
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Data and chance
Let's Make a Bar Graph, Sir Cumference and the Off-the-Charts Dessert, Bad Luck Brad
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One book, one lesson, with a short version.
Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens
Hundreds, tens and ones
Charlie in Fraction City
Fractions as parts of a whole
Pizza Counting
Fractions of a whole
Multiply By Hand
Times tables
Counting on Frank
Estimating
Bad Luck Brad
Chance
Bigger, Better, Best!
Area