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Master Maths at Home

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Contents

Page
Equal groups 4

Repeated addition 8

Arrays 10

Doubles 14

Solving multiplication problems 16

Making groups 20

Sharing equally 24

Solving division problems 28

Making halves 32

Making quarters 36

Review and challenge 40

Answers 46

Ruby Elliott Amira Charles Lulu Sam Oak Holly Ravi Emma Jacob Hannah
Equal groups Lesson
1

Starter

4C
up es
cak cak
es 4 Cup

4C
up es
cak cak
es 4 Cup
4C
up es
cak cak
es 4 Cup

4C
up es
cak cak
es 4 Cup

Are the and the in equal groups?

Example
There are A group of is
3 bunches of . called a bunch.

Each bunch
has a different number of .
The groups are not equal.

4
 There Each box has 4 .
are 4 boxes All the boxes have an equal
of . number of cupcakes.

The are not in equal groups.

The are in equal groups.

5
Practice

1 Who has made equal groups?

Tick (✓) the correct box.
(a)

(b)

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2 Fill in the blanks.

(a)

There are equal groups.

Each group has drinks.

(b)

330 ml 330 ml 330 ml 330 ml 330 ml 330 ml

330 ml 330 ml 330 ml 330 ml 330 ml 330 ml

There are equal groups.

Each group has drinks.

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Repeated addition Lesson
2

Starter

How many cars are there?

How many children are in each car?
How many children are there in total?

Example

There are 4 cars.

Each car has
2 children in it.

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 2 2 2 2
Each car has 2 children.
There are 4 groups of 2. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

There are 8 children in total.

4 groups of 2 = 8
2+2+2+2=8
4 twos = 8
Practice
Fill in the blanks.

0 5 10 15 20 25

(a) There are groups.

(b) Each group has flowers.

(a) groups of =

(b) There are crayons in total.

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Arrays Lesson
3

Starter

How many carrots are there in the garden bed?

Example

We can use 1 This is

to show 1 . called a row.
There are 5
in 1 row.

There are 4 rows. Each row has 5 .

1 row of 5 = 5
2 rows of 5 = 10
3 rows of 5 = 15
4 rows of 5 = 20

There are 20 in total.

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Practice
Fill in the blanks.

1 3 rows of 2

There are rows of 2 .

twos =

There are in total.

2 3 rows of 3

There are rows of .

threes =

There are in total.

There are in each row.

There are rows.

rows of =

There are in total.

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4
There are rows of .

There are rows of .

There is row of .

There are counters in each row.

There are rows in total.

rows of =

There are counters in total.

5 rows of =

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6 rows of =

7 Fill in the blanks and draw lines to match.

5 rows of 3 =

2 rows of 6 =

4 rows of 3 =

3 rows of 5 =

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Doubles Lesson
4

Starter

Can you double these numbers?

Example

Double 4 means
2 fours.

Double 4 = 8

2 eights is
equal to 16.
Double 8 = 16

2 threes is equal to 6.

Double 3 = 6
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Practice
Fill in the blanks.

1
Double Double

= =

Double Double

= =

Double Double

= =

Double Double

= =

Double Double

= =

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Solving multiplication Lesson

problems 5

Starter

£5.00

4C
up es
cak cak
es 4 Cup

The farm shop has some fresh eggs for sale.

How many eggs does it have for sale?

Example
1

There are 4 groups.

There are 6 eggs in

each group.
4 sixes = 24
The farm shop has 24 eggs for sale.
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2

buys some rubbers for his classroom.

How many rubbers does he buy in total?

There are 6
Each pack has 5
.
.

6 packs with 5 rubbers = 30 rubbers

6 fives = 30

buys 30 rubbers in total.

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Practice
Fill in the blanks.

1 has 2 boxes of cupcakes left.

How many cupcakes

does the baker
have left?
4C 4C
up up
cak cak
es es
Cu Cu
pca es pca es
kes pcak kes pcak
Cu Cu

There are groups.

Each group has cupcakes.

groups of =

The has cupcakes left.

2
brings some chocolates to a party.
How many chocolates does Emma bring?

There are groups.

Each group has chocolates.

groups of =

brings chocolates to the party.

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3 has 1 pack of 10 football cards.

He buys 2 more packs of 10 football cards.

How many football cards does Charles now have?

1 pack + 2 packs = packs

3 packs of 10 =

now has football cards.

4 Jacob has 5 bowls with 4 tomatoes in each bowl.

Hannah has 2 bowls with 9 tomatoes in each bowl.
Who has more tomatoes?
Explain your answer using words and pictures.

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Making groups Lesson
6

Starter

Each breakfast plate needs two fried eggs.

How many breakfast plates can prepare?

Example

Each breakfast plate

1 needs 2 of the eggs.
has 12 eggs in total.

can prepare 6 breakfast plates.

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 2

What if each breakfast

plate needs 3 eggs? How many
breakfast plates could prepare?

Practice

1 needs to put all the lemons into bags. Each bag must have 3 lemons.

How many bags does need?

Circle the lemons to make groups of 3.

needs bags.

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2 There are 20 strawberries.

(a) Circle to show groups of 2

strawberries.

There are groups of

2 strawberries.

(b) Circle to show groups of 4

strawberries.

There are groups of

4 strawberries.

(c) Circle to show groups of 5

strawberries.

There are groups of

5 strawberries.

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 (d) Circle to show groups of 10
strawberries.

There are groups of

10 strawberries.

3 There are 12 counters in total.

How many ways can you find to make equal groups with the 12 counters?
Explain your answer using words and pictures.

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Sharing equally Lesson
7

Starter
There are 8 bouncy balls. The children want to share them equally.

How many bouncy balls does each of them get?

Example

Equal sharing means

everyone gets the same number
of bouncy balls.

Start by sharing 1
bouncy ball with
everyone.

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 Share the rest of the balls.

All the balls have been shared.

There are 4 children.

There are 8 bouncy balls.
Each child gets 2 bouncy balls.

Practice
1 Fill in the blanks.

There are toy robots in total.

There are boxes.

There are toy robots in each box.

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2 Circle the doughnuts to make 3 equal groups.

There are doughnuts in each group.

3 Draw the apples equally on the plates.

There are in total.

There are .

Each plate has .

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4 Jacob has 15 mangoes.
He puts them equally into 5 boxes.

There are mangoes in each box.

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Solving division problems Lesson
8

Starter
The teacher asks 16 children to get into groups of 2 to play a game.

How many groups of 2 children are there?

Example
There are 16 children in total.
Each group has 2 children.

There are 8 groups in total.

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When the game is over, the teacher asks the children to make 2 equal groups.

16 children in 2 equal
groups is different to 16 children
in equal groups of 2.

8 groups of 2 2 groups of 8

16 16

Each
shows 1 child.

Practice

1 (a) Circle to show 2 equal groups. (b) Circle to show groups of 2.

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2 (a) Circle to show 5 equal groups. (b) Circle to show 3 equal groups.

(c) Circle to show groups of 3. (d) Circle to show groups of 5.

3 Share the apples equally into 3 bags.

How many apples go in each bag?

There are apples in each bag.

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4 Put 2 pears on each plate.
How many plates do you need?

I need plates.

5 Each vase should have an equal number of flowers.

How many flowers should be in each vase?

There are flowers in total.

There are vases.

There should be flowers in each vase.

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Making halves Lesson
9

Starter
The children want to share the pizza equally.

How can they cut the pizza?

Example

This is 1 whole pizza.

We can cut it into 2
equal-sized pieces.

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 We can cut Each of these
the pizza this way. pieces is 1 half
Both pieces are of the pizza.
the same size.

2 halves make
1 whole.

We can also Are each of these pieces

cut the pizza also called 1 half?
this way. These
pieces are also
the same size.

These are not the

same size.
These pieces are not
called halves.

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Practice

1 Draw a line to cut each shape in half.

Try to do it in different ways for each shape.

(a)

(b)

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2 Draw a line to cut each shape in half.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

(e) (f)

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Making quarters Lesson
10

Starter

wants to plant 4 types of fruit trees in the field.

How can the field be split equally?

Example
When we cut a whole
into 4 equal parts, each part 4 quarters makes
is called 1 quarter. up 1 whole.

The field could

be split this way. 1 quarter 1 quarter
Each of these sections
is called a quarter.

Quarters can also

be called fourths.

Each section has 4 trees.

1 quarter of 16 is 4.
1 quarter 1 quarter
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 We can split the
field this way as well.
These are also
quarters.

Each section
also has 4 trees.
They have 1 quarter
of 16 trees.

1 quarter 1 quarter 1 quarter 1 quarter

Practice

1 Shade 1 quarter.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

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2 Place a tick (✓) next to the shapes that have 1 quarter shaded.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

(e) (f )

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3 Circle to show 1 quarter of the biscuits.

1 quarter of 8 biscuits is biscuits.

4 Circle to show 1 quarter of the chocolates.

1 quarter of 16 chocolates is chocolates.

5 Circle to show 1 quarter of the doughnuts.

1 quarter of doughnuts is doughnuts.

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Review and challenge

1 Tick (✓) the equal groups.

(a)

(b)

Fill in the blanks for questions 2–6.

2
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WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER

There are equal groups.

Each group has medals.

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3

0 5 10 15 20 25

There are groups.

Each group has flowers.

4 There are counters in each row.

There are rows.

rows of =

There are counters in total.

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5 There are counters in each row.

There are rows.

rows of =

There are counters in total.

6 (a)

Double =

(b)

Double =

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7 Ruby has 3 pots with 5 flowers in each pot.
Sam has 6 pots with 2 flowers in each pot.
Who has more flowers? Explain your answer using words and pictures.

8 (a) Circle to show groups of 2.

750 750 750 750 750

ml ml ml ml ml

473 ml 473 ml 473 ml 473 ml 473 ml

There are groups of 2 drinks.

(b) Circle to show groups of 10.

There are groups of 10 ice creams.

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9 Share the pears equally onto the plates.

Each plate has pears.

10 Each plate should have an equal number of .

How many should be on each plate?

Each plate should have .

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11 Draw a line to cut each of the shapes into halves.
Show 3 different ways.

12 Draw lines to cut each shape into quarters.

Show 3 different ways.

13 There are 10 cookies in the bag.

Half of the cookies go on the plate for a party.
How many cookies go on the plate?

cookies go on the plate for the party.

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Answers

Page 6 1 (a) Hannah (b) Ruby.

Page 7 2 (a) There are 6 equal groups. Each group has 5 drinks. (b) There are 3 equal groups.
Each group has 4 drinks.

Page 9 1 5, 5, 5, 5, 20 (a) 4 groups (b) 5 flowers 2 (a) 5 groups of 10 = 50 (b) 50.

Page 11 1 There are 3 rows of 2. 3 twos = 6. There are 6 mangoes in total. 2 There are 3 rows of 3.
3 threes = 9. There are 9 counters in total. 3 There are 10 buttons. There are 4 rows.
4 rows of 10 = 40. There are 40 buttons in total.

Page 12 4 There are 2 rows of orange counters. There are 2 rows of blue counters. There is 1 row
of pink counters. There are 4 counters in each row. There are 5 rows in total. 5 rows of
4 = 20. There are 20 counters in total. 5 6 rows of 5 circles = 30.

Page 13 6 5 rows of 6 circles = 30

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5 rows of 3 = 15

2 rows of 6 = 12

4 rows of 3 = 12

3 rows of 5 = 15

Page 15 1 double 1 = 2, double 2 = 4, double 3 = 6, double 4 = 8, double 5 = 10, double 6 = 12,

double 7 = 14, double 8 = 16, double 9 = 18, double 10 = 20.

Page 18 1 There are 2 groups with 8 cupcakes. 2 groups of 8 = 16. The baker has 16 cupcakes.
2 There are 4 groups with 10 chocolates. 4 groups of 10 = 40. Emma brings 40 chocolates.

Page 19 3 3 packs, 3 × 10 = 30, Charles has 30 football cards. 4 Jacob has 20 tomatoes, Hannah
has 18 tomatoes, Jacob has more.

Page 21 1 Elliott needs 5 bags.

Page 22 2 (a) 10 (b) 5 (c) 4.

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Page 23 (d) 2 3 There are 4 ways: groups of 2, 3, 4 and 6.

Page 25 1 There are 12 toy robots in total. There are 4 boxes. There are 3 in each box.

Page 26 2 There are 4 doughnuts in each group. 3 There are 6 apples in total. There are 3 plates.
Each plate has 2 apples.

Page 27 4 There are 3 mangoes in each box.

Page 29 1 (a) (b)

Page 30 2 (a) (b) (c)

(d) 3 There are 4 apples in each bag.

Page 31 4 5 plates 5 There are 9 flowers in total. There are 3 vases. There are 3 flowers in
each vase.

Page 34 1 (a)

(b)

Page 35 2 (a) (b) (c) (d)

(e) (f)

Accept any orientation of line drawn through the square and circle.

Page 37 1 1 part of the shape shaded. For example:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Page 38 2 (b) ✓ (c) ✓ (e) ✓ (f) ✓

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Answers continued
Page 39 3 2 biscuits 4 4 chocolates 5 1 quarter of 12 doughnuts is 3 doughnuts.

Page 40 1 (a) ✓ 2 There are 5 equal groups. There are 5 in each group.

Page 41 3 5, 10, 20. There are 4 groups. Each group has 5 flowers. 4 There are 3 counters in
each row. There are 5 rows. 5 rows of 3 = 15. There are 15 counters.

Page 42 5 There are 5 counters in each row. There are 3 rows. 3 rows of 5 = 15. There are 15
counters. 6 (a) double 4 = 8 (b) double 10 = 20.

Page 43 7 Ruby has 15 flowers, and Sam has 12 flowers, Ruby has more 8 (a) There are 5 groups
of 2 drinks (b) There are 4 groups of 10 ice creams.

Page 44 9 Each plate has 3 pears. 10 Each plate should have 5 grapes.

Page 45 11 12

13 5 cookies go on the plate.

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