UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) To decide whether to round up or down after division

Learning Objectives

Starter:
- To interpret remainders as fractions
- To revise common metric conversions

Main Lesson:
- To use formal short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 5)
- To use formal long division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 6)
- To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3)

This lesson consists of:

A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder division problems giving remainders to convert to fractions and their answers. A connect activity getting children to revise the metric conversions they will need in the independent task.

An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out short and long division when answering word problems and to test the children’s ability to understand how context determine whether to round an answer up or down.

A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of short and long division Word problems and round the answer according to context. More Able children will have to complete multistep problems. Answers are supplied to ease marking.

An AFL / Next Steps task based on previous a SATs question, to allow to introduce the fact that most problems aren’t simply one operation but usually are a combination of different operations.