Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select some different sets of thousands, hundreds, tens and ones to practise adding together using standard written methods of calculation for addition of five digit numbers for core and extension ability levels and three digit numbers for support ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to solve number equations to add pairs of five digit numbers using standard written methods of addition.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise using standard written methods of addition calculation to solve a range of abstract and contextual problems working with sets of four and five digit numbers. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.