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Pancake Counting

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and record how to use counting on and back to subtract pairs of numbers within twenty to identify the number of pancakes that can be made on Shrove Tuesday.
The class can practise making models of pancakes to illustrate each of the subtraction calculations when counting back one and two digit numbers within twenty.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and record how to use counting on and back to subtract pairs of numbers within twenty to identify the number of pancakes that can be made on Shrove Tuesday
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to select and subtract pairs of one and two digit numbers within twenty to identify the numbers of pancakes made on Shrove Tuesday and a template to model subtraction calculations using concrete equipment when subtracting pairs of numbers.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use counting on and back to subtract pairs of numbers within twenty to identify the numbers of pancakes made on Shrove Tuesday.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise using the number technique of counting back to solve and complete a range of abstract and contextual subtraction calculations . 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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