School Fences
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record how to calculate the costs of building some fences around different shaped perimeters in areas around the school grounds.
The class can explain and model how to use formal written methods of addition and multiplication to make it easier and quicker to find the perimeter of a specific shape.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how to calculate the costs of building some fences around different shaped perimeters in areas around the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets for support, core and extension ability levels to record how to calculate the costs of building fences around different shaped perimeters in the school grounds using measurements in whole metres.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to calculate the costs of building fences around different shaped perimeters in the school grounds.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to measure and calculate the perimeters and areas of different shaped locations around the school grounds. 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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