Lesson Four – Garden Groups

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and record how to select and sort different numbers of garden materials and objects into matching equal groups of two and ten for multiplication products.
The class can practise using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to illustrate multiplication statements when counting up in steps of twos and tens.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and record how to select and sort different numbers of garden materials and objects into matching equal groups of two and ten for multiplication products
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated sets of cards to select and record different pictorial diagrams to show multiplication calculations when counting in steps of twos and tens using concrete equipment to model the matching products.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort different numbers of garden materials and objects into equal groups of two and ten.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to use concrete equipment and diagrams to record how to count in steps of two, five and ten to calculate the sums of different numbers of objects. 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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