Counting Clothes

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and record the matching addition sums that are one more than different numbers of items of clothing to totals to ten, twenty and thirty.

The class can explain and model how to use number lines to support each addition calculation by counting on one more than each number of clothing items.

Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and record the matching addition sums that are one more than different numbers of items of clothing to totals to ten, twenty and thirty

Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to list matching addition sums that are one more than different numbers to ten for support ability levels, to twenty for core ability levels and to thirty by extension ability levels when using counting on.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the addition sums that are one more than different numbers of clothes to ten, twenty and thirty.

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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