Lesson Five – Spaceship
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise solving a range of number problems using calculations in the four multiplication table to find the numbers of things that might be carried or used on a spaceship.
The class can explain and illustrate how to use concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to model how to multiply some different numbers by four when solving each problem.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise solving a range of number problems using calculations in the four multiplication table to find the numbers of things that might be carried or used on a spaceship
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to record how to solve number problems using calculations in the four multiplication table to find the products matching the numbers of things that can be carried and used on a spaceship.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to solve a range of number problems using calculations in the four multiplication table.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to learn and recall the number facts in the three and four times tables to utilise when solving abstract and contextual problems involving multiplication and division 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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