Lesson Three – Number Stories

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to select and record pictorial diagrams to illustrate the meaning of different addition number problems with matching sums to ten.

The class can practise counting on from the biggest number for each story to complete the addition calculations to find the matching totals for each number equation.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to select and record pictorial diagrams to illustrate the meaning of different addition number problems with matching sums to ten

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record how to add pairs of single digit numbers with sums to ten for core and extension ability levels and how to add one more to single digit numbers for support ability levels by using diagrams to support counting on to match different stories about numbers.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record pictorial diagrams to illustrate the meaning of different addition number problems with sums to ten.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise adding different pairs of single digit numbers to record matching sums to ten using concrete equipment and diagrams to support 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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