Mathematics

Intermediate

50 mins

Teacher/Student led

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Teacher-led from the board. Pupils do not need a device, but can follow on one.

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Pictograms with a Scale (One Symbol = 2)

Learn to read and build pictograms where one symbol represents two, using half-symbols to show odd numbers. Count in twos and understand how the key unlocks the pictogram.

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1 Getting Started
2 Watch and Notice
3 Try It Together
4 Write the Key in Your Copy
5 Class Challenge
6 What Did We Notice?
7 What's Next
Pupil practice

Your turn

Your teacher is running this lesson on the board. Here is the part you can try yourself.

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Pictogram builder

1 - Getting Started ~5 mins

Key point

Here is a pictogram where every single child needs their own symbol. The top row alone needs ten symbols, one for each child. That is an awful lot of drawing! What if one symbol stood for two children instead of one?

Each row shows one way the children in 3rd class travel to school:

Walk: 10 children, so 10 symbols
Car: 6 children, so 6 symbols
Cycle: 4 children, so 4 symbols

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Watch and Notice ~9 mins

Here are three rows shown on the pictogram. Read the key first: one symbol stands for two. Count on in twos along each row. The last row is the tricky one: it has a half-symbol on the end.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Try It Together ~8 mins

Key point

We build these counts together on a key of two, in order: first 6, then 4, then 5 (the half-symbol one), then 7. One pupil comes up to build each row while the rest of us count on in twos aloud and check the row. Read the key before you start.

Build the count on a key of two

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4 - Write the Key in Your Copy ~4 mins

COPYBOOK MOMENT

In your maths copy, write the key at the top: one symbol = 2. Then draw a row for a count of 6 and a row for a count of 7. Use a half-symbol on the row that needs one.

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Pupil practice

Module 9 · Data and Chance Data & Chance

Lesson 105 · Pictograms with a Scale (One Symbol = 2)

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