Multiplication and division - Consolidate 2, 4 and 8 times tables - Starter

In a Year 3 mathematics lesson, students are tasked with consolidating their knowledge of the 2, 4, and 8 times tables through a series of engaging activities. The lesson begins with a 'Fluent in Four' revision exercise where pupils are required to complete a bar model by adding together numbers represented in tens and ones. For example, they must understand that four ones combined with three tens plus two tens and thirteen ones equals 67. This exercise not only reinforces their understanding of place value but also practices addition skills.

Another component of the lesson involves solving practical problems, such as determining the number of boxes needed to tidy away a collection of cars, based on a given number of cars per box. For instance, Malachi has 36 cars and can fit 9 cars in each box, prompting students to calculate that four boxes are required. Additional exercises include making arithmetic statements correct by finding the missing numbers, such as identifying that 26 is 2 less than 28 and 73 is 16 more than a number to make it 89. Students also explore geometric shapes, identifying the number of edges, faces, and vertices in shapes like a cuboid, cube, and square-based pyramid, thus integrating their multiplication and division knowledge with basic geometry concepts.