Lesson Three – Grid Multiplication

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to revise and illustrate how to multiply different pairs of two digit numbers by using a grid to partition digits by their place value to support each calculation.

The class can identify and explain how to break a written calculation into a number of smaller steps that can be completed using facts in the times tables.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to revise and illustrate how to multiply different pairs of two digit numbers by using a grid to partition digits by their place value to support each calculation

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to practise multiplying pairs of two digit numbers by using a grid to partition digits by their place value to indicate the different steps that are needed to complete each calculation.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to multiply different pairs of two digit numbers by using a grid to partition digits.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and use the correct calculation steps needed to solve problems when multiplying numbers using informal and formal layouts to multiply by one and two 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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