Let's Solve Missing Number Problems
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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 Year 1 'Let's solve missing number problems!' scheme of work includes engaging activities with which children can improve their addition and subtraction skills. Use counters and number lines to find how many more are need to make a total, and explore how to find the difference between two groups of objects. With this scheme of work, challenge your class to practise their addition and subtraction facts to twenty and solve problems with missing numbers and objects.
Each lesson in this Year 1 Maths scheme of work includes detailed lesson plans, engaging slides, differentiated worksheets and a range of printable resources to help your class become more secure in solving missing number problems.
Addition and Subtraction
The first lesson in this scheme of work allows your class time to recap and practise how to add and subtract numbers to twenty. They will use pictures and objects to solve simple addition and subtraction questions, preparing them for some harder concepts in the lessons to follow.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- What’s my number cards
- Differentiated picture cards
- Number sentence cards
- Mixed questions sheet
- Four in a row game
- Photo sheet
How Many More?
Children are to help Sam, the sweet-shop owner in this lesson, fill bags of sweets! Your class will use counters to help Sam find how many more sweets are needed to make different bags to sell. Children will become familiar with the 'count up' method and will solve missing number problems using this method.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated spinner game
- Dot cards
- Story cards
- Counter drop game
- Photo sheet
Number Lines
This lesson reinforces the concept of finding more to make a total with the use of number lines. Your children will use counters to make jumps up the number line to solve missing number sentences. They will also begin to solve questions with the missing number at the beginning of the number sentence.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas Number lines
- Number line cards
- Differentiated worksheets
- Roll and race game
- Recording sheet
- Photo sheet
Finding the Difference
Challenge your class to look at two rows of objects and determine what differences there are between them. Your children will count up to find the difference between two groups of objects using pictures and objects. They will then use multi-link cubes, games and word problems to find the difference between two numbers.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Number lines
- Tower cards
- Matching game
- Story cards
- What’s the difference game
- Game cards
- Photo sheet
Mixed Missing Numbers
Your children will use all the skills they have developed in this scheme of work to solve mixed addition and subtraction problems with missing numbers. Introduce your class to problems with the equals sign at the beginning of the statement, and consider how to solve them.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Bingo game card
- Number lines
- What’s missing cards
- Worksheet
- ‘Same As’ cards
- Crack the code game
- Photo sheet
Medium-Term Plan
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