Key Stage One : Maths : Year One Planning : Term One : Unit A : Lesson One – Shape Groups


This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to count and record different ways of sorting numbers of shapes into groups. The class can use concrete equipment to support counting of numbers to ten and record the matching numerals to ten for each counted number of shapes.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to count and record different ways of sorting numbers of shapes into groups

Learning Objectives

Count and read numbers of shapes to 10 in numerals. Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations.

Learning Outcomes

I can count numbers of objects to ten. I can use objects and pictorial diagrams to show counted numbers of objects to ten.

Shape Groups

Teaching sequence to help the children count and record different ways of sorting numbers of shapes into groups

Shape Groups

Template to help the children record how different numbers of shapes have been sorted into a range of groups

Counting Shapes

Interactive activity to help the children count different numbers of objects to ten and identify the matching numerals

Shape Groups

Interactive activity to help the children

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to count and record different ways of sorting numbers of shapes into groups

  • Family Christmas
    Practise using mental calculations and informal written calculations to add and subtract pairs of two digit numbers when identifying different things that families might need to celebrate Christmas
  • Christmas Market
    Calculate numbers of items sold at a Christmas market by subtracting ones from different two digit numbers
  • Christmas Stocking
    Calculate the total cost of presents needed to fill a stocking using different money amounts
  • Christmas Tree Shopping
    Use counting on to add two digit numbers and tens to calculate the prices of Christmas decorations