Linking Multiplication and Division - Lesson 5: Number Line Division

With lesson plans, engaging slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and many other useful resources, there is sure to be something included to help everyone in your class become a whizz at linking multiplication and division.

The first lesson in this series gives your class plenty of practise in counting on and back in steps of a certain size. Starting as a whole class, your children can then work out some number patterns suited to their ability level, from the simple and straight-forward to the tricky and troublesome!

After some number-pattern practice, your class will explore the link between multiplication and division, establishing how you can derive three other facts from just one multiplication or division statement. The main activity allows them to ‘play teacher’ as they identify whether multiplication and division statements are correct or not, and there is also the chance to put their skills to the test as they fill in the blanks on some missing number problems.

The focus of this lesson is quick recall of times tables facts to help their fluency when solving multiplication and division problems. A fun ‘tables tennis’ game during the slides will warm their brains up before tackling some multiplication grids or some timed challenges during their independent learning.

The slides for this lesson demonstrate what happens to a number when it is multiplied by 10 and 100. Once they have got the hang of multiplying by 10 and 100, they can tackling dividing by the same numbers! The independent learning activities are packed full of fun activities and games to reinforce their learning.

The final lesson in this series explores how division can be thought of as repeated subtraction and gives your class plenty of opportunities to practise dividing two-digit numbers by a single digit, using a number line to support them. They will also check their answers using the inverse (multiplication). They can then use what they have learnt to answer some different types of questions, including word problems.