Garden Insects
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise multiplying two digit numbers by two, four and eight to calculate and record the numbers of insects that can be found living in a garden.
The class can identify and explain how to use the facts in the times tables to support multiplication calculations when finding the matching products for each number problem.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise multiplying two digit numbers by two, four and eight to calculate and record the numbers of insects that can be found living in a garden
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to record how to solve problems when multiplying two digit numbers by two for support ability levels, by four for core ability levels and by eight for extension ability levels to calculate the numbers of different types of insects that can be found living in a garden.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to multiply two digit numbers by two, four and eight to calculate the numbers of insects living in a garden location.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to solve number problems using informal and formal techniques to multiply two by single digit 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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