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Materials – Numeracy Plans

These lessons have been specifically written to support the teaching of numeracy through the theme of materials. (6 Page Download)

Numeracy Lesson 1: Materials Data (Key Stage 1)
Aims of the lesson: To organise and use data to create a bar chart.

Numeracy Lesson 2: Waste not; want not (Key Stages 1 and 2)
Aims of the lesson: To answer questions relating to data represented as a pie chart.

Numeracy Lesson 3: Bounce, bounce bounce… (Key Stages 1 and 2)
Aims of the lesson: To record results of an experiment using a graph.

Numeracy Lesson 4: Bucky balls (Key Stage 2 +)
Aims of the lesson: To investigate pentagons and hexagons using bucky balls as the stimulus.

Numeracy Lesson 5: Sorting objects (Key Stages 1 and 2)
Aims of the lesson: Place value, ordering and rounding (whole numbers): use symbols correctly, including
less than (<) and more than (>).

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