Mass, Capacity, Temperature - Measure mass kg - Starter

For Year 2 students in their Summer Term, Week 9, Day 5 presents a variety of maths challenges. The session starts with a 'Fluent in Four' revision activity, where children tackle subtraction problems such as finding the difference between eighty-two and double twenty-seven, and subtracting fourteen from thirty-seven. The exercises are designed to sharpen their mental arithmetic and encourage quick, accurate calculations. Students are also asked to engage with a sequence of numbers representing time in minutes, enhancing their understanding of time intervals.

The lesson proceeds with a practical task where students must order a series of items by weight, from heaviest to lightest, using their knowledge of grams as a unit of mass. This exercise helps them to visualise and compare different masses. Additionally, there is an activity focused on counting in tens, where children count beads to determine the total number. This reinforces their counting skills and familiarity with multiples of ten. In a real-world application of fractions, the students are presented with a scenario where Esin buys sixteen doughnuts and brings a fraction of them to school. The children must calculate the number of doughnuts Esin shares, applying their knowledge of fractions in a context they can relate to.