School Garden
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using geometry and number calculation skills to design and calculate the cost of building a garden area somewhere in the school grounds.
The class can explain and model how to use a formal written method of calculation for multiplication to make it easier and quicker to find the area of a specific shape.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using geometry and number calculation skills to design and calculate the cost of building a garden area somewhere in the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to design and cost a garden area for the school grounds using money amounts in whole and half pounds for support ability levels, in multiples of ten pence for core ability levels and in pence for extension ability levels when using geometry and number calculation skills.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use geometry and number calculation skills to design and cost a garden area for 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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