Catching up on Numeracy: Pencil and Paper Methods

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Age Range: KS3

Address key skills and concepts in pencil and paper recording. Encourage students to develop a variety of strategies based on known mathematical facts. Subjects covered include squares, factors, multiples, decimals, fractions, and measurement of time, weight and distance.

Topics include: Exploring addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; Using short cuts; Rounding numbers; The contexts of money, weight, volume and time; Fractions, percentages and decimals. (Formerly: Added Value in Numeracy: Pencil and Paper methods)

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Size: 64 Pages
ISBN: 978 1 86025 226 6
Code: CNPP
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Contents List

LESSONS

7 DIFFERENT WAYS A variety of effective ways to multiply numbers.
9 FIVES AND TENS Investigating the properties and uses of multiplication chains.
11 LINE UP Lining numbers up under one another to check addition.
13 HUNDREDS, TENS AND UNITS Addition and estimation.
15 TAKE AWAY Subtraction and estimation.
17 DIVIDE AND CHECK Simple division and checking answers by multiplication.
19 NUMBERS MAKING HALVES How to tell if a number can be divided by 2 or 4.
21 MOVE RIGHT How numbers behave when divided by 10, 100 and 1000.
23 POINT BLANK Using sets to identify numbers that will divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
25 TENS, HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS Multiplying numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
27 TIMES TWENTY Students build on existing knowledge as they work with multiples of 10.
29 PERCENTAGES Finding percentages using pencil, paper and plenty of practical examples.
31 THE SALE Calculating percentages and deducting them from original prices.
33 CASH Adding and subtracting money.
35 CASH MULTIPLES AND SHARES Multiplying cash amounts.
37 METRES AND CENTIMETRES Converting metres into centimetres, and adding metric lengths.
39 HEAVY WEIGHT Adding and subtracting metric weights.
41 SIMPLE FRACTIONS Adding fractions using segment diagrams and by changing denominators.
43 FRACTION SUBTRACTION Subtracting fractions using segment diagrams and by changing denominators.
45 MONEY FRACTIONS Using fractions in financial calculations.
47 PRIME FACTORS Changing whole numbers into the products of primes.
49 FAST OR SLOW? Adding and subtracting units of time using pencil and paper.
51 DAY TRIP Calculating time intervals using pencil and paper.
53 DECIMAL ADDITION Adding numbers to two decimal places.
55 DECIMAL TAKE-AWAY Subtracting numbers to two decimal places.
57 DECIMAL TIMES Multiplying decimal numbers by whole numbers.
59 DECIMAL DIVISION Dividing whole and decimal numbers by decimals up to two places.
61 GOES INTO Dividing financial amounts by whole numbers.
62 APPENDIX Bingo cards for page 7, DIFFERENT WAYS.

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20/07/10

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few new ideas, may use in lessons

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