This fun ‘Let’s learn our times tables’ scheme of work for KS1 will help your Year 2 class to become more familiar with a formal layout for the two, five and ten times tables. They will learn what times tables are and start to become more fluent in solving problems relating to times tables.

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#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

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#Lesson1TwoTimesTable

In this first lesson, children will explore the two times table, firstly by using repeated addition on a number line to relate multiplication and addition, then by solving problems from the two times table, using repeated addition, number lines and visual representations to support them. They will become more familiar with a formal layout for the two times table and more fluent in multiplying by two.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated times table cards
Differentiated worksheets
Differentiated board game
Game cards

#Lesson2FiveTimesTable

Children will explore the five times table in this lesson, firstly by using repeated addition on a number line to relate multiplication and addition, then by solving problems from the five times table, using repeated addition, number lines and visual representations to support them. They will become more familiar with a formal layout for the five times table and more fluent in multiplying by five.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated domino cards
Bingo grids
Blank bingo sheet
Memory cards
Counting in Fives number line

#Lesson3TenTimesTable

Children will start off this lesson by recapping some facts from the two and five times tables before looking in more detail at the ten times table. They will become more familiar with a formal layout for the ten times table and carry out a range of activities to help them become more fluent in multiplying by ten.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Challenge cards
Calculation card
Worksheet
Spinner
Differentiated game cards
Multiples of Ten hundred square

#Lesson4MissingNumberProblems

Now that your class are more familiar with the two, five and ten times table, they can put their new-found skills to the test as they solve a variety of missing numbers. The slides demonstrate some different strategies they can employ to solve such problems, before being challenged to work independently.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated missing number cards
Differentiated problem cards

#Lesson5SolvingProblems

In the final lesson in this series, children will solve a variety of word problems relating to the two, five and ten times tables. They will learn to pick out important information in a question, identify what the question is asking them to solve, and solve the calculation.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated question cards
Worksheet
Hundred Square
Differentiated statement cards

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Curriculum Objectives covered

Year 2 - recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers
Year 2 - calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷) and equals (=) signs