Lesson One – Christmas Savings

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and record how to use counting on to add two digit numbers and ones to calculate money available for buying different Christmas presents in whole pounds.

The class can use concrete equipment and diagrams to model their number calculations when adding ones to two digit numbers.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record how to use counting on to add two digit numbers and ones to calculate money available for buying different Christmas presents in whole pounds

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and record money amounts to complete calculations by adding two digit numbers and ones and a template to make a Christmas ornament to display one of their addition calculations adding a two digit number and ones.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use counting on to add two digit numbers and ones to calculate money available for Christmas presents in whole pounds.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise using mental calculations and informal written calculations to add and subtract pairs of two digit numbers. 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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