Lesson Three – Digit Puzzles
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to identify and record the matching sets of digits that can be added to complete written columnar addition sums of different pairs of five digit numbers.
The class can explain and model how to exchange between place value when completing different steps in each addition calculation sum using mental techniques.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to identify and record the matching sets of digits that can be added to complete written columnar addition sums of different pairs of five digit numbers
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to record how to complete standard written methods of calculation for addition by adding the missing digits for sums with 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 the digits that can be added to complete written columnar addition of pairs of five digit numbers.
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.
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