Lesson One – Number Towers
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise counting and recording in different groups of threes to calculate the matching number products in the three multiplication table.
The class can explain and illustrate how to use concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to model how to multiply some different numbers by three when calculating each identified number product.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise counting and recording in different groups of threes to calculate the matching number products in the three multiplication table
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated sets of cards to select and record how to multiply different single digit numbers by three using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to model each of the calculated multiplication products.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to count in threes to calculate different products in the three 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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