Year 2 Autumn Week 1 Numeracy Lessons - Counting and properties of numbers

Three lessons looking at the properties of numbers. These lessons were originally created for a major educational publishing house. These lessons look at Counting and properties of numbers. The lessons contain a 10 minute mental warm up, a main, whole class teaching lesson and suggestions for the differentiated challenges students can do.

Autumn Term

Lesson 1: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective:  know the names of numbers
 recite numbers in order
 count a set of objects
 check a count by counting in tens.
Mental Warm Up: Count on from 15.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to work on counting.
Educational Challenges  Count up the objects in different groups – which was the best way?
 Count up the number of objects in one handful.
 Check your partner’s answers by grouping them in tens.


Lesson 2: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective:  count on or back in steps of 1, 2, 5 and 10
 begin to recognise familiar multiples.
Mental Warm Up: Match the pairs of numbers that total 10.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to count in steps of different sizes.
Educational Challenges  Count in steps of 5 or 10. Use ‘Sammy Snake’ to cover up numbers.
 Count in steps of 1 on a 10 x 10 grid up to 50 first. Continue to 100 if time.
 Count in steps of 2 or 5, recording the number on the 10 x 10 grid.
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Lesson 3: Week 1
Title Counting and Properties of Numbers
Learning Objective:  count a set of objects and know this number always stays the same
 count in steps of 2, 5 and 10
 begin to recognise familiar multiples.
Mental Warm Up: Count in steps of 2.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to count objects by grouping them in different ways.
Educational Challenges  Take a handful of objects to count in groups of ones, twos and tens. Record results.
 Draw some spots for a partner to count and check by grouping in different ways.
 Draw some spots or collect some objects. Challenge a friend to find out how many by grouping them.