Lesson One – Cube Groups

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to model and record how to share different numbers to twenty into matching equal groups.
The class can explain and illustrate how to count in steps of twos and fives to check how they have shared each of the numbers into matching equal groups of two and five.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to model and record how to share different numbers to twenty into matching equal groups
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record how to share different numbers to twenty into two equal groups for support ability groups and into two and five equal groups for core and extension ability groups using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to share different numbers to twenty into matching equal groups.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and explain how to use concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to record equal groups of numbers to twenty by sharing numbers of different 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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