What is multiplication?
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What You Get
This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
- An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
Curriculum Coverage
Curriculum Coverage
Teacher Benefits
Teacher Benefits
- Save time and simplify your Maths planning
With every lesson clearly sequenced and ready to teach, our Maths schemes take the stress out of planning and ensure smooth progression from one objective to the next. - Ensure National Curriculum coverage
Each unit in our Year 2 Maths curriculum has been carefully designed to meet National Curriculum objectives, giving you complete confidence that every skill and concept is taught and revisited. - Support for every teacher, every class
Clear explanations and built-in differentiation make our Maths lessons easy to deliver for ECTs and experienced teachers alike, supporting adaptive teaching across a range of abilities. - Build confidence and fluency for all pupils
From reasoning and problem-solving to fluency practice, each lesson helps children develop mathematical understanding in engaging, hands-on ways that make learning stick.
Learn about multiplication in this ‘What is multiplication?’ scheme of work for Year 2. Explore number patterns, numbers sequences, multiplication number sentences, counting in groups and lots more as your class become multiplication masters.
Invite your class to investigate multiplying by two, five and ten before exploring number sequences and solving simple problems.
Exploring number sequences
The first lesson of this ‘What is multiplication?’ scheme of work gets your class exploring number patterns. They will work out what the numbers in the sequence are increasing by and then continue the pattern. Your class will have the opportunity to improve their mathematical language as they explain their answers.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Number Squares
- Number Cards Set
- Question Cards
Multiplying by two
In the second lesson of this scheme of work for Year 2, your class will use the two times table to solve problems. They will look at multiplication number sentences and explain what they mean. They will use multiplication, repeated addition, arrays and pictures to express problems.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Number Cards
- Domino Cards
- Sorting Cards Set
- Worksheets
Multiplying by five
In the third lesson of this scheme of work for Year 2, your class will use the five times table to solve problems. They will look at multiplication number sentences and explain what they mean. They will play games and match different representations of number sentences to each other.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Jigsaw Cards
- Worksheets
- Game Sheet
Multiplying by ten
In the fourth lesson of this multiplication scheme of work, your class will use the ten times table to solve problems. They will look at multiplication number sentences and explain what they mean. They will have the opportunity to play games, matching number sentences to their answers.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Number Cards
- Question Cards Peacock Cards
- Game Sheet
- Worksheets
- Game Cards
Lets solve problems
In the final lesson of this ‘What is multiplication?’ scheme of work for Year 2, your children will be challenged to apply their learning to solve problems. They will write multiplication number sentences, selecting the relevant information from word problems. Then they will work out the answer and explain what they have done.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Challenge Cards
- Worksheets
- Puzzle Pieces
Medium-Term Plan
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