Abacus Numbers

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and model how to use an abacus to record the matching number sums that are one more and one less than one and two digit numbers.

The class can practise using the techniques of counting on and back to identify and record the sums that are one more and one less than each of the selected numbers.

Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to use an abacus to record the matching number sums that are one more and one less than one and two digit numbers

Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated templates to practise using an abacus to record numbers that are one more and one less than one digit numbers for support ability levels and two digit numbers for core and extension ability levels when using the techniques of counting on and back.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use an abacus to record numbers that are one more and one less than two digit numbers.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and record the matching addition sums that are one more than numbers to twenty supported by concrete objects, pictorial diagrams and informal calculation methods. 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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