Position and Direction - Draw on a grid - Starter

The mathematics lesson for Year 5 during the Summer Term's eighth week, day two, encompasses a series of exercises to boost pupils' numeracy skills. The 'Fluent in Four' revision segment challenges students with a subtraction problem that asks them to calculate the difference between 83 hundreds, 20 tens, and 17 ones, and a quantity that is 8 hundreds and 6 tens plus 8 more. This arithmetic exercise helps to consolidate their understanding of place value and subtraction. Additionally, students are tasked with writing coordinates for given points on a grid, further enhancing their grasp of position and direction within a two-dimensional space. The coordinates are to be determined using the x (horizontal) and y (vertical) axes on a grid ranging from 1 to 10 along both axes.

Another component of the lesson involves practical application of multiplication skills, where students must find the missing numbers in a series of multiplication equations to achieve set products. This exercise is designed to reinforce their times table knowledge and ability to manipulate numbers. In a real-world context, the lesson includes a word problem where Tia and Zach's swimming distances are given. Tia swam 5,672 metres, and the sum of both their distances is 12,847 metres. Students must calculate the distance Zach swam, which is more than Tia's distance. These varied activities are aimed at enhancing the pupils' numerical proficiency, problem-solving skills, and ability to apply mathematical concepts to everyday scenarios.