Multiplication and division - Making doubles - Presentation

In a series of engaging and interactive fluency and reasoning teaching slides, students are introduced to the concept of 'Making Doubles' in the context of multiplication and division. The lesson encourages pupils to explore what it means to double a number and to use practical equipment to demonstrate their understanding. Through a variety of visual activities, such as identifying doubles in pictures and circling representations that have been doubled, students reinforce their ability to recognise and make doubles. These activities not only help students to recall doubles but also to understand the underlying mathematical principles involved.

The lesson progresses with more focused tasks where students look at number shapes and complete sentences that articulate the process of doubling, such as "Double 7 is 14" and "7 + 7 = 14". They are then challenged to fill in a table by doubling numbers and identifying patterns, such as the fact that doubles are always even numbers and increase by two each time. The lesson also includes reasoning exercises, where students discuss the outcomes of doubling in real-life scenarios, like doubling the number of doughnuts. Independent work tasks ask students to tick or cross representations that have been doubled and to complete number sentences that express doubling. To deepen their understanding, students are prompted to consider how to represent doubled amounts differently and to extend the concept of doubling to larger numbers. This comprehensive approach ensures that students build a solid foundation in recognising and applying the concept of making doubles in various mathematical contexts.