Year 2 Spring Term Week 1 Number Sequences

Three complete PowerPoint lessons about number sequences. The lessons start with a fun mental warm up, followed by a whole class learning period, and finishes with a set of differentiated learning challenges.

Spring Term

Lesson 1: Week 1
Title Number Sequences
Learning Objective:  count on and back in steps of 10
 describe and continue a sequence
 make up a number pattern.
Mental Warm Up: Today you are going to complete a mapping diagram with a ‘+10’ rule.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to be looking at sequences of numbers that have been made by counting on or back in steps of 10 or 1.
Educational Challenges  Use cubes or beads in two colours to make a number sequence. Use the ‘+10’ or ‘–10’ rule.
 Make a pattern using cubes or beads in two colours. Use the ‘+10’ or ‘–10’ rule.
 Think of a way to show a sequence that has got hundreds in it.


Lesson 2: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers

Learning Objective:  count on and back in steps
 describe a number pattern
 continue a number pattern
 make predictions.
Mental Warm Up: Start from the start number. Count back in steps of ten when I clap my hands.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to count on in steps of different sizes using some grids.
Educational Challenges  Shade the first number on a 4 x 4 grid and count on in fours. Do the same for a 5 x 5 grid and a 6 x 6 grid. Does the pattern look the same?
 Count on in steps of 4 on different-sized grids. Explain the pattern.
 Count on in steps of 4 on different-sized grids. Predict the pattern.



Lesson 3: Week 1
Title Number Sequences
Learning Objective:  count on or back in steps
 describe number patterns
 continue number patterns
 make predictions.
Mental Warm Up: Sit in a circle. Collect a card between 0 and 30. Stand up if you have number cards 1, 4, 7 and 10. What is the next number? Stand up if you have the number.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to look at some number patterns and work out the rule.
Educational Challenges  Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Write the number sequences.
 Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Write the number sequences.
 Work out the rule for shaded grid patterns. Make up a pattern for a friend using a two-step rule.