Year 2 Autumn Term Week 8 (No Week 7 as holiday) - Reasoning about numbers.

Here is a 5 day teaching unit using PowerPoint for anyone who is wanting to teach students about how to use and reason with numbers. The lessons start with a 10 minute mental warm up session. This is followed by a highly interactive, whole class teaching session. The PowerPoint lessons end with a differentiated teaching challenge for students at different attainment levels.

Autumn Term

Lesson 1: Week 8
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective:  count on in steps of any size
 solve number patterns
 make up our own number patterns.

Lesson 2: Week 8
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective:  count on in steps of any size
 solve number patterns
 make patterns agree with rules
 make alternating patterns.

Lesson 3: Week 8
Title Reasoning about Numbers
Learning Objective:  investigate square numbers
 find ways of investigating numbers
 find square numbers by using a pattern.

Lesson 4: Week 8
Title Reasoning about Numbers
Learning Objective:  solve word problems
 recognise odd and even numbers
 find and talk about general statements
 develop mental strategies.

Lesson 5: Week 8
Title Reasoning about Numbers
Learning Objective:  add and subtract
 use the words used to add and subtract
 add several numbers together and find the differences by counting on.