Lesson Five – Factor Puzzles
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to compose and solve a range of number puzzles about the common factors of different pairs of numbers to one hundred.
The class can identify and explain how they identified numbers to match each of the puzzles by describing the properties of different numbers linked to each common set of factors.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to compose and solve a range of number puzzles about the common factors of different pairs of numbers to one hundred
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to practise creating a range of puzzles for a partner to solve about the common factors of pairs of numbers to one hundred and a set of cards for support ability levels to match and solve puzzles about the common factors of different numbers.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose and solve puzzles about common factors of different numbers to one hundred.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and record the factors of different numbers to one hundred which can be utilised when performing mental multiplication calculations. 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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