Year 5 Maths – week beginning 29th June 2020

As you know, the children are familiar with Power Maths, which is the scheme of work we use as a school. It promotes the Mastery approach,

which encourages deep and long-lasting understanding of mathematical concepts. Power Maths lessons start with a Power-Up, which is a warm-

up that revises previously learned content. In class, we normally spend no more than 5 minutes on this. The main lesson begins with the

Discover section, which introduces the learning to be covered in that lesson. Please discuss this with your child to help them make sense of it.

The Share section explains the answers to the questions in the Discover section, and the Think Together section allows children to have a go at

applying what they have learned. After the Think Together section, the children would normally work independently in their Practice Books, but

during this period you can use White Rose Maths’ Home Learning page https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ Simply and look for

the explanation video and independent activity that matches the lesson. After the Think Together section is a Challenge, which you can use to

extend your child’s learning if they feel confident to push themselves on. Tip: the characters on the Power Maths pages often have speech

bubbles which give children hints about what to do. These are very useful!

Please read this information – it is important in helping your child’s learning

Pearson, the publishers of the ‘Power Maths’ scheme, are no longer allowing us access to the textbook for this term but my planning is still based

around the scheme.

Textbook

The textbook contains four pages for each lesson for you: ‘Discover, Share and Think Together’, which I have ‘snipped’ and included for you

here. I know that some of you have purchased this for your child and for that I am very grateful.

Please also read this:

We will be finishing the lessons presented in the 5C textbook this week and will be moving on to the start of the ‘Summer Practice Book’ to revise

this year’s learning from the autumn and spring terms ahead of coming back in September. As I plan you cannot access this but I am hoping that

Pearson will get enough irate parents/schools complaining about them withdrawing the resource that they put it back for you.

Your child may well remember some of what I ask them to complete – that’s not a problem at all. This is a great opportunity to revisit areas to

support their learning in Year 6. I have ‘dug back’ through the Pearson resources online, to which I have access, to find the ‘Power Ups’ which

sit alongside each lesson.

I also realise that some of you are working on very small screens and are going to struggle even more than you have been with what I’ve snipped

because it has affected the quality of the print in enlarging it for which I can only apologise.

Monday 29th June: comparing volumes: Unit 17 Lesson 2

Power Up: This is similar to one we had last week; again your child needs to think back to our work on factors and multiples, which we covered in

a lot of depth. A factor is a number which ‘goes into’ a number and a ‘multiple’ is a number which is in a particular times table. So, 2 is a factor of

8 and 8 is a multiple of 2. A composite number is one which has more than two factors i.e. it’s not a prime number.

Main lesson

Online textbook 5C, pages 196 – 199

Practice Book 5C pages 146 – 148

I cannot find any alternative to the practice book. If you don’t have access to that, then please work through all of the questions from the

textbook. If you’ve got Lego cubes, you could build some small 3D shapes for your child to compare.

Tuesday 30th June: Estimating Volume: Unit 17 Lesson 3

Power Up:

Your child needs to remember that the equals sign means two things are the same as one another, not ‘the answer is’. Once they’ve realised

that, it’s just a question of finding equivalence between the fractions, decimals and percentages given. They do not need to work out, for

example, what 0.5 x 30 is as it’s the same as 50% of 30.

Textbook 5C, pages 200 – 203

Practice Book 5C pages 149 – 151

Again, if you don’t have the Practice Book, please focus on the textbook and consider using some cubes to estimate volumes of small items at

home such as a chocolate bar or pack of cards.

Wednesday 1st July: Estimating capacity: Unit 17 Lesson 4

Power Up:

This cranks up a gear from

yesterday’s lesson. Again, it’s

important that they recognise that

the two sides of the ‘number

sentence’ are equal to one another –

they shouldn’t be trying to find 0.07 x

20 but working out which fraction

multiplied by 20 is the same.

Textbook 5C, pages 204 – 207

Practice Book 5C pages 152 – 154

To be successful today, your child needs to see the difference between volume and capacity, with capacity being the volume able to be

contained within a vessel if it’s full. If you don’t have the practice book, then I would suggest you find some measuring jugs and some empty

containers (e.g. yogurt pots) and ask your child to estimate their capacity before measuring them. This is a really fun activity, which I suggest is

best carried out in the garden so that any spills don’t cause an issue inside.

Thursday 2nd July: Multiplying 2-digit numbers 1

Power Up:

We looked at cube numbers a

couple of weeks ago. If your

child is not confident with

column multiplication, they

shouldn’t be afraid of using

the ‘grid method’ to multiply –

I’m a confident mathematician

and much prefer using that

method.

We’re now back to the start of the Summer Practice Book so if (!) it’s back we are working on pages 4 - 7

Some of the class found this tricky earlier in the year – some because they’re not secure in their times table knowledge and others because they

found the representation difficult. They need to not get hung up on the area of the floor plan but ‘see’ that they are in fact using the grid method

to multiply their numbers together.

Friday 3rd July: Multiplying 2-digit numbers 2

Power Up:

This is very similar to Monday’s Power

Up. Again, they can use jotting to help

them.

Summer Practice Book pages 8 - 11

This builds on yesterday’s lesson and introduces the column method of multiplication. As I said earlier, if your child is not confident in using this

method, that’s absolutely fine – the grid method is perfectly acceptable and probably easier.