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Lesson Two – Family Presents
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using standard written methods to add numbers to two decimal places to calculate costs of buying presents for family and friends at Christmas.
The class can explain and model how to correctly layout an addition columnar sum when adding pairs of money amounts to find the cost of their present choices.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using standard written methods to add numbers to two decimal places to calculate costs of buying presents for family and friends at Christmas
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to practise adding pairs of numbers with two and three digits to calculate the cost of buying presents for members of a family using standard written methods of columnar addition.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use standard written methods to add numbers with two decimal places to calculate costs of buying presents 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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