Lesson Two – Square Numbers
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to model how to use pictorial diagrams and multiplication calculations to prove whether different numbers can be classified and recorded as square numbers.
The class can identify and record how to use the correct symbol when identifying and recording calculations for squared numbers as part of a multiplication number sum.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to model how to use pictorial diagrams and multiplication calculations to prove whether different numbers can be classified and recorded as square numbers
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to model how to use diagrams and calculations to prove whether different numbers are square and a set of cards to select and match multiplication calculations to show different square numbers.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explain how to identify and record different square numbers using pictorial diagrams and multiplication calculations.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explore and illustrate the properties of numbers that can support multiplication calculations including prime, square and cube numbers and multiplication facts that can be used to derive division quotients. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values