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Ocean Crossing

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and add different pairs of money amounts using a standard written method of calculation to choose some of the special items that are needed for a sea voyage across an ocean.
The class can explain how to use mental strategies to complete each step in the written calculations when adding the pairs of money amounts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and add different pairs of money amounts using a standard written method of calculation to choose some of the special items that are needed for a sea voyage across an ocean
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to select and add pairs of money amounts to one hundred pounds for support ability levels, to one thousand pounds for core ability levels and to five thousand pounds for extension ability levels to choose items needed for a sea voyage.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add pairs of money amounts using a written method to choose items needed for a sea voyage.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise using standard methods of calculation for columnar addition with exchange between place value to solve problems when finding the sums of pairs of different numbers. 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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