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Am starting to look at E1 and find that Scholastic starts with multiplication by grid method which I know is the guidance but my class have already cracked the formal method. Here is what I did it. good site for showing formal division- sometimes doesn't load though http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/division/3x1%20division.swf this is called double double division and it is chunking with a little bit extra to help the children. http://www.doubledivision.org/ good fraction game http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/equivalentfractions/index.html

When I have looked carefully at Scholastic I can see some problems for my class. Their tables are becoming secure but only up to 6x, so many of the worksheets they will find hard because they use 7x and 8x table. My class are also very insecure on fractions and I believe they need to understand division before I get them to find say 2/5 of a number. My files are going to deviate from scholastic in this unit but I will put the main learning objective typed so you can pick anything that helps you. The slides at the start of my lesson reflect problems that my class has had and they say that they really help and now all are confident in multiplying and dividing by 10.100 etc and all bar one can find time differences. They are beginning to ask me to put extra practice bits in if they have found the work difficult. (ability range in Sept was 2b to 4c. My 2b children are catching up fast but I still have to give them extra to what I put up here.

__file day 1 and 2 based on finding the result of division by the reverse of multiplication__ http://www.mape.org.uk/startower/sums/index.htm level 2 of the division game is dividing into multiples of 10 Day 3 focuses on doubling as a means of finding other table facts. My children will have follow on work after they do the whiteboard work. http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/division/division%20on%20number%20line%20-%20contents.html Failed miserably to make a file for day4 and 5. I reused some of the starters I had already done and concentrated on division. Most of them can now do short division -hooray- so now we might get some where with fractions. __On to fractions__ __Day 6__ They found day 6 too easy which amazed me. What made it easy is the way they had looked at different fractions earlier last week in my starters. I extended the task and asked them to show other irregular fractions. At the end of the lesson we starte to look at 1/4 of a number and 3/4 of a number. Then it began to get harder. __Day7__ __Day 8__ Reuse the starters from earlier They began to get confused over changing mixed numbers into improper fractions and vice vera so have worked another day on this. The work for this was out of our textbook. We are also going to have to do a display for the corridor soon and fractions will make an easy display that I can make and keep for later. It has been useful to think of fractions as 1 out of every three parts for a third. That has helped with equivalent fractions. __Day 9__ Will be introducing decimal fractions. There are some good worksheets on http://www.numeracyworld.com/ Again we have some good work in textbooks and I want to get some artwork done. Back to the smartboard next week. __A file to help with equivalent fractions to a third__ This file is revision for somethings they didn't get.