Let’s count in multiples

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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