Let’s count in multiples
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What You Get
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 1 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.
This exciting practical scheme of work will get your class counting in twos, fives and tens. They will complete number sequences and apply their skills when solving problems. These lessons will increase your children’s confidence as they complete a variety of maths tasks.
Each lesson in this five-lesson planning pack comes with a lesson plan, a fun slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of colourful printable resources to support your Year 1 class as they become more confident with counting in multiples.
Number Sequences
The first lesson in this Spring term scheme of work for Year 1 will get your class looking closely at number sequences. They will look for patterns as they work out the next number in the sequence. Your children will be focusing on sequences that increase or decrease in jumps of two, five or ten.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Sequences
- Number Sets
- Sticky notes
- Photo Sheet
Counting in twos
The second lesson in this ‘Let’s count in multiples!’ scheme of work for Year 1, will get your class counting in twos. Their confidence will increase as they apply their counting in twos knowledge to solving problems. They will link repeated addition and multiplication as they write number sentences to explain what they have done.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Group Cards
- Worksheets
- Cubes
- Containers
- Photo Sheet
Count in twos, fives and tens to solve problems
The third lesson in this counting in multiples scheme of work encourages your children to apply their knowledge of counting in twos, fives and tens to solving problems. They will decide what each question is asking them to do, before drawing pictures and counting in multiples to solve it.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Problem Cards
- Counting objects
- Challenge Cards
- Objects
- Photo Sheet
Draw groups and count objects
During the penultimate lesson in this ‘Let’s count in multiples’ series of lessons, your class will draw objects in groups of two, five and ten to solve problems. They will think carefully about what each question is asking as they draw the correct number of objects in the correct number of groups. This lesson will increase your classes understanding of how addition and multiplication are linked as they create pictorial representations of multiplication number sentences.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Mini-whiteboards
- Worksheets
- Jigsaw Pieces
- Photo Sheet
Solving word problems
The final lesson in this series will challenge your class to solve word problems by counting in multiples. They will draw pictures or use objects to understand and represent the problem. Then they will write the problem as a number sentence and solve it. This lesson concludes by challenging your class to solve a multi-step problem.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Mini-whiteboards
- Worksheets
- Game Sheets
- Problem Cards
- Photo Sheet
Medium-Term Plan
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