This Doubling and Halving Year 3 Maths scheme of work will help your class develop the essential skill of being able to double and halve numbers quickly and easily. Through a variety of engaging teaching sequences and fun activities, your KS2 children will refine their doubling and halving skills as they learn how to double 1- and 2-digit numbers and explore the relationship between doubling and halving.

With lesson plans, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and more, these Doubling and Halving Year 3 lessons will soon have your class doubling and halving numbers with ease and able to apply their new-found skills in real-life problems.

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Doubling Numbers

This Doubling Numbers lesson teaches your Year 3 class some helpful methods for doubling two-digit numbers. Using partitioning, your class will soon be doubling numbers up to one hundred.

The slideshow presentation for the whole-class input goes through plenty of examples for the class to try together. Your children can then apply what they have learnt during their independent activities by doubling sets of differentiated numbers. There is also the opportunity to play doubling bingo!

This Doubling Numbers lesson plan pack contains everything you need to deliver this useful lesson, including an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

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Double Trouble

This Double Trouble planning pack builds on the learning they did during the previous lesson about doubling two-digit numbers. During the teaching input, your Year 3 children will be challenged to double a variety of single-digit numbers as many times as they can before they get stuck!

During their independent learning time, there are then further opportunities for them to practise their doubling skills by matching sets of domino cards. There are also some challenging doubling investigations for them to wrap their heads around.

This doubling lesson plan pack provides a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources – everything you need to successfully deliver a great doubling lesson!

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Halving Odd and Even Numbers

Now that your Year 3 class are a little more confident with doubling, they can start exploring the relationship between doubling and halving.

After warming up their brains with some doubling practice, they will then start to halve even two-digit numbers, moving on to explore halving odd numbers. The independent activities contain a differentiated game for children to play to match a double with its half, or they can play some doubling and halving darts!

This Halving Odd and Even Numbers lesson comes fully prepared and ready for you to deliver to your class. There's a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow presentation for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and some handy printable teaching resources.

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Solving Problems

This Doubling and Halving Problems lesson for Year 3 is packed full of fun activities to consolidate their understanding and recall of doubling and halving numbers.

The slides for the teaching input gives the exciting challenge of choosing whether to double or halve a given number to reach a target number, whilst there are board games and number grids to challenge them with during their independent learning, all of which will help their fluency with doubling and halving.

This Doubling and Halving Problems planning pack comes fully prepared with all the downloadable resources you need to deliver this lesson, including a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and a range of printable teaching resources.

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Function Machines

This Function Machines Year 3 Maths lesson pack rounds off this week of doubling and halving work by introducing your KS2 class to Rob the Function Machine Robot!

Your Year 3 children will be challenged to to work out various input and output numbers when Rob’s function is set to ‘double’ or ‘halve’. There is even the opportunity to make their very own function machines!

This Function Machines Year 3 lesson pack comes fully prepared with all the downloadable resources you need to deliver this lesson, including an in-depth lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of handy printable teaching resources.

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