Lesson Four – Family Party
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to use standard written addition and subtraction calculations to select items needed for a family celebration to match a specific money budget.
The class can explain how to correctly layout a subtraction calculation using decomposition to complete each of the steps in the sums correctly.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to use standard written addition and subtraction calculations to select items needed for a family celebration to match a specific money budget
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of templates to select and record addition and subtraction calculations to match a specific budget for a family party to work out the cost of buying different sets of items such as cakes, drinks and decorations.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use standard written addition and subtraction calculations to select items needed for a family celebration to match a specific budget.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to use standard written methods of addition and subtraction to check calculated sums using inverse operations and solve problems with multi-step solutions. 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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