Lesson Five – Number Quarters

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and model how to use concrete objects and pictorial diagrams to calculate one quarter of different numbers that are multiples of four.
The class can illustrate and record how to divide each of the multiples of four to forty into four equal quarters making sure that each number quarter has the same value.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to use concrete objects and pictorial diagrams to calculate one quarter of different numbers that are multiples of four
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to model and record how to use concrete objects and diagrams to divide different multiples of four to forty for core and extension ability levels and to twelve for support ability levels into matching numbers of quarters.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to to calculate one quarter of different numbers for multiples of four.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify, calculate and record how to divide different shapes, quantities and numbers to illustrate the fractions of halves and quarters. 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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