Starter quiz
- Jacob is skip counting in 10s. He starts from 100 and he counts 100, 90, 80, ______ What number comes next?
- '70' ✓
- Look at the groups in the image. Which can you skip count?
- Look at the image which shows groups of books. What is the group size? The group size is ______
- '5' ✓
- Izzy’s mum bought 5 groups of 6 books, which is 30 books altogether. Identify the factors in this story.
- 5 and 6 ✓
- 5 and 30
- Izzy’s mum and books
- 5 and 6 and 30
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- Look at the image below. Calculate the product. 10 × 6 = ______
- '60' ✓
- Look at the question. Choose the right equation to help solve the problem. Jacob’s mum buys ___ packs of 10 books. He has 100 books altogether. How many packs did he buy?
- ___ × 10 = 100 ✓
- ___ × 100 = 10
- ___ × 10 = ___
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Exit quiz
- Jacob is skip counting backwards in 5s. He starts from 60 and counts 60, 55, 50, 45, ______ What number comes next?
- '40' ✓
- Select the correct multiplication expression for the image below. A bamboo plant grows 5 cm in the morning, 5 cm in the afternoon and 5 cm in the evening.
- 3 × 3 = 9
- 3 × 5 = 15 ✓
- 5 × 5 = 25
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- Select the correct multiplication expression for the image below. A bamboo plant grows 2 cm in the morning, 2 cm in the afternoon, 2 cm in the evening and 2 cm overnight.
- 4 × 2 = 8 ✓
- 4 × 3 = 8
- 4 × 4 = 8
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- If each pencil was 10 cm long and I made a line of these pencils, what would the total length of the line be? The line would be ______ cm long.
- '60 ' ✓
- Look at the image. Each bamboo piece is 5 cm long. What is the total length of 4 pieces? The total length of the bamboo is ______ cm.
- '20' ✓
- Pedro the panda has made a design using 6 bamboo sticks. Each bamboo is 10m long. What is the total length of his design?
- '60 m' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Identify the group size and the number of groups in the problem.
- If you know the factors you can calculate the product.
- You can skip count in the group size to calculate the product.
Common misconception
Pupils may find it difficult to identify the factors in the word problems.
Model how to address questions. Use of familiar stem sentences to support pupils in identifying the factors: 'There are 7 bamboos. Each bamboo is a length of 5 m. 7 is factor and 5 is factor. We can skip count in ___ to find the product.'
Keywords
Product - A product is the result of two or more numbers multiplied together.
Factor - A factor is a number which exactly divides another whole number.
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