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Blooming Bar Models: a free bar model video series.

Blooming Bar Models is our free series of ten bar model videos for primary teachers, each on one question about bar modelling. It is a way to see whether the method suits your school, without giving us an email address first.

Free · no sign-up to watch

Series one

Ten episodes,about 80 minutes in total.

The series is ten bar model videos, each taking on a single question.Watch them in any order.

  1. 01

    Using Bar Models in Year 6 SATs

    10:01
  2. 02

    Show your class the meaning of DIFFERENCE

    4:47
  3. 03

    Using the Bar Model approach to understand Subtraction & Difference

    13:25
  4. 04

    Can we teach Bar Modelling in EYFS?

    8:39
  5. 05

    Using Bar Models as a Teaching Tool

    6:45
  6. 06

    To Algebra or Not to Algebra, THAT is the question!

    5:08
  7. 07

    Can we be MEAN with Bar Modelling?

    5:31
  8. 08

    Bar Modelling in Multiplication

    7:57
  9. 09

    Showing Equivalent Fractions with a Bar Model

    7:34
  10. 10

    How do you use bar modelling to teach ratio?

    10:09

If it lands

The series is the introduction.The course is the full method.

If the series suits your school, the next step is the Bar Model Course. The 75-lesson course is what your staff can teach from, week to week.

Next

The Bar Model Course

75 lessons across 11 chapters, from the first drawn bar to algebra.

Alongside

63 animated videos

For the whiteboard, mid-lesson, when a class needs to see it built.

And

The free resource pack

The Bar Model Guide, ten-frame printables and progression documents — 15 items.

Whole school

£399 a year

Unlimited staff, EYFS to Year 6, including whoever starts in September.