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School Fireworks
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and record how to use the short multiplication method correctly to calculate the cost of buying some fireworks for a display at the school.
The class can explain and model how to use facts in the times tables to make it easier to complete each step in the multiplication calculations when finding the total firework costs.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record how to use the short multiplication method correctly to calculate the cost of buying some fireworks for a display at the school
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated sets of cards to select and multiply different money amounts in whole pounds for support ability levels and pounds in pence for core and extension ability levels by single digit numbers when using the short multiplication method to calculate the costs of buying fireworks for a special display at the school.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to use the short multiplication method to calculate the cost of buying fireworks for a school display.
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 to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving a range of different number problems. 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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