Let’s learn our times tables - The Complete Series (5 lessons)

With lesson plans, engaging slides, differentiated activity ideas and a range of bright and colourful printable resources, you can teach all five lessons for the week without having to spend any time planning!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.