Lesson Three – Christmas Holidays

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using standard written addition methods to calculate the costs of buying tickets to different destinations for a family holiday at Christmas.

The class can explain and model how to correctly layout an addition columnar sum when adding pairs of money amounts to calculate the total cost of each holiday.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using standard written addition methods to calculate the costs of buying tickets to different destinations for a family holiday at Christmas

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record and complete addition calculations to calculate the costs of buying tickets to different destinations for a holiday at Christmas using money sums for decimal numbers.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use standard written addition methods to calculate the costs of buying tickets to different destinations for a holiday at Christmas.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise using formal written methods for addition and multiplication to calculate the cost of buying different items to celebrate a family Christmas. 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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