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Year 6 Get Calculating! lesson plan – Additive reasoning

A lesson for Year 6 pupils to familiarise themselves with the key features of calculators and encourage appropriate and effective use whilst also exploring and reasoning about key aspects of mathematics.

The activities can be used in isolation or as a whole lesson. A PowerPoint to support the activities is also available.

The lesson is focussed on calculation and particularly on developing understanding of additive reasoning and how addition links to multiplication

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