Let's Subtract Objects
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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
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Curriculum Coverage
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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 Subtract Objects!' scheme of work is a great way to introduce your class to subtraction. By the end of the week, they will be able to recognise the take away and equals signs and solve number sentences that contain them. These fun engaging lessons include a variety of practical activities with contexts designed to help your class understand subtracting.
With detailed lesson plans, engaging slides, differentiated worksheets and other resources, these downloadable 'Let's Subtract Objects!' lessons provide all you need to teach this useful scheme of work.
What is Subtracting? 1
The first lesson in this series encourages your class to take away a number of objects from a group. This hands-on, practical lesson gets your children counting out objects, reading number sentences and removing objects to find their total.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Challenge cards
- Monster sheet
- Food cards
- Number cards
- Picture cards
- Character cards
- Photo sheet
What is Subtracting? 2
During this lesson your class will consolidate their understanding of what happens when they take objects away from a group. The hands-on, practical activities will get your children counting out objects, reading number sentences and removing objects to find their total.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Challenge cards
- Monster sheet
- Food cards
- Number cards
- Picture cards
- Character cards
- Photo sheet
Can we find the total? 1
The third lesson in this series will have your class making and writing number sentences to describe the maths problems they have solved practically.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Number cards
- Operation cards
- Number sentence puzzles
- Number sentence cards
- Treasure
- Photo sheet
- Leaves
- Branch sheet
Can we find the total? 2
During this lesson, your class will consolidate their understanding of making and writing subtraction number sentences to describe what they have done.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Number cards
- Operation cards
- Number sentence puzzles
- Number sentence cards
- Treasure
- Leaves
- Branch sheet
- Photo sheet
Solving Problems
The final lesson of this series encourages your class to apply their knowledge of subtracting objects to solving a range of problems. They will be challenged to record what they have done as number sentences.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- In Out sheet
- Worksheet
- Photo sheet
Medium-Term Plan
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