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Picnic Sandwiches
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record how to calculate the mass of ingredients that will be needed to make a range of different sandwiches to take on a family picnic.
The class can explain and model how to use a standard written method for multiplication when multiplying the masses of sandwich fillings by one and two digit numbers.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how to calculate the mass of ingredients that will be needed to make a range of different sandwiches to take on a family picnic
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select the mass of different fillings for some sandwiches to multiply using standard written methods when finding the total mass of sets of sandwiches needed for a family picnic.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to calculate the mass of ingredients that will be for needed to make some different picnic sandwiches.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when solving measurement problems for mass. 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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