Lesson Two – Number Arrays

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to revise and illustrate how to use number arrays to model different multiplication calculations in the times tables.
The class can identify and explain how to count in steps of equal groups using different sets of concrete objects to find the matching products for each multiplication calculation.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to revise and illustrate how to use number arrays to model different multiplication calculations in the times tables
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and record number arrays that can be used to match different multiplication calculation number facts in the two and five times tables.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explain and model how to count in sets of equal groups to identify products linked to example number arrays for the two and five times tables.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to model and illustrate how to use facts in the times tables to multiply different numbers by two and five by counting and grouping matching products. 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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