Key Stage Two : Maths : Number : Addition : Halloween Party Games


This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to calculate items needed to play games at a Halloween party using standard written methods of columnar addition. The class can try adding pairs of five digit numbers with exchange between place values to calculate the matching sums.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to calculate items needed to play games at a Halloween party using standard written methods of columnar addition

Learning Objectives

Add numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers. Add whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods.

Learning Outcomes

I can complete steps in an addition calculation using mental skills. I can use a written columnar method to add pairs of numbers with five digits.

Halloween Party Games

Teaching sequence to help the children calculate items needed to play games at a Halloween party using standard written methods of columnar addition

Party Games

Activity to get the children to solve problems using standard written methods of columnar addition of five digit numbers with exchange between place values

Party Games (support)

Activity to get the children to solve problems using standard written methods of columnar addition of three digit numbers with exchange between place values

Halloween Party Games

Interactive activity to help the children calculate items needed to play games at a Halloween party using standard written methods of columnar addition

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to calculate items needed to play games at a Halloween party using standard written methods of columnar addition

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