Maths

This week children are getting to grips with secure understanding of multiplication and place value using the grid method which will lead onto the formal multiplication method.

 

Children need to reflect on concrete resources used in school and draw diagrams to support and prove their answers.

 

Equipment visualisation - Diennes or base ten and place value counters securing the amount of 1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s for each calculation.

 

Children will be working at a slower pace here and deepening their mathematical understanding.