Lesson Three – Kitchen Cupboards

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and record number sentences that can be used to solve problems involving subtraction of single digit numbers within ten about items found in a family kitchen.

The class can calculate the numbers of kitchen tools and equipment left inside cupboards using diagrams and concrete equipment to model each calculation.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record number sentences that can be used to solve problems involving subtraction of single digit numbers within ten about items found in a family kitchen

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and record subtraction number sentences that can be used to solve problems about items stored in some cupboards in a kitchen using diagrams and concrete objects to model each calculation.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record number sentences that can be used to solve problems involving subtraction of single digit numbers within ten.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and practise techniques that can be used when solving number problems related to subtraction. 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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