Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record how to add pairs of numbers to two decimal places for core and extension ability levels and numbers with two and three digits for support ability levels using a standard addition calculation method to find the cost of buying tickets for different shows and events.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use standard written methods to add numbers with two decimal places to calculate the cost of buying tickets for a birthday celebration.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise using standard methods of calculation for columnar addition with exchange between place value to solve problems when finding the sums of pairs of different numbers. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.