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Let's find one more and one less

SKU M1CS30005
Key Stage 1Number and Place ValueMathsAutumn TermYear 1

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This fun Year 1 'Let's find one more and one less' scheme of work deepens your class's understanding of addition and subtraction as they work practically to solve number sentences both using physical resources and number lines.

 
#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

This scheme of work comes with five complete lessons, each one with an engaging slideshow presentation for the teaching input, differentiated activities and a range of printable resources to support your Year 1 class as they become more familiar with using objects and number lines to find one more and one less.

#Lesson1UsingObjects1

What does one more mean? What does one less mean? The slides explain this in simple terms and get your class practically finding the answers. During this teaching input your children will be given a range of one more and one less problems that encourage them to think carefully about what the question is asking. Following this, challenge your class to attempt two of the four included activities.

 

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Number cards
  • Picture cards
  • Jigsaw pieces
  • Photo sheet
#Lesson2UsingObjects2

This lesson gives your class the opportunity to consolidate their understanding of how to find one more and one less. They will continue to work practically by counting out objects to solve problems.

 

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Number cards
  • Picture cards
  • Jigsaw pieces
  • Photo sheet
#Lesson3NumberLines1

How can we use a number line to solve a problem? This lesson gets the children working out answers to problems using number lines. The slides explain this in simple terms and show your class how to record the value of the jump on the number line. After the teaching input, your class will access two of the four included activities. The activities have a mixture of one more and one less questions.

 

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Number lines
  • Number cards
  • Picture cards
  • Number sentence cards
  • Number line cards
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Photo sheet
  • Bus stop sheet
  • People cards
#Lesson4NumberLines2

This lesson gives your class the chance to consolidate their understanding of using number lines to solve a problem. During the input they will work out answers to problems using numbered, tabbed and blank number lines. After this, your class will access two of the four included activities that have a mixture of one more and one less questions.

 

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Number lines
  • Number cards
  • Picture cards
  • Number sentence cards
  • Number line cards
  • Bus Stop sheet
  • People cards
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Photo sheet
#Lesson5SolvingProblems

This final one more and one less lesson gets your children applying their knowledge of addition and subtraction to solving problems. They will be encouraged to use different methods to solve problems including using objects, bead strings, number lines and counting on and back. Challenge your class to work out what the missing operation is in number sentences and to find out how many items were purchased on a shopping trip.

 

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Shopping basket sheet
  • Problem cards
  • Food sheet
  • Missing operations cards
  • Photo sheet
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Curriculum Objectives covered
  • Year 1 - given a number, identify one more and one less
  • Year 1 - identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least
  • Year 1 - read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words

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Francesca Cabrini

Great start to forming number sentences.