Division & Factors | Exploring Remainders | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities

Division & Remainders | Whole Unit | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities

This purposeful unit for **Division & Remainders** includes 4 lessons, and embeds real life scenarios throughout: **Lesson 1** - focuses on the role of divisibility rules and factors in relation to remainders. **Lesson 2** - focuses on remainders as fractions and decimals in context. **Lesson 3** - focuses on contextualising remainders and how and why to format remainders as fractions, decimals, or to ignore them or round them. **Lesson 4** - a short project lesson where students apply their understanding of division and remainders to problem solve in real life scenarios. Knowledge: Short division with remainders, long division with remainders, and remainders in different contexts. Skills: Interpret remainders appropriately for the context, represent remainders as fractions or decimals, explain when an exact answer or approximation is needed, and apply reasoning to real-life division problems. **What’s Included?** Your download includes everything you need for a successful series of lessons: **Unit Overview Notes:** Outlines the knowledge, skills, and pre-requisites for the entire unit, exploring the question 'Do remainders always matter?' **Detailed Lesson Walkthrough/Notes:** Includes a step-by-step guide with guiding questions and key discussion points for each lesson. **Guiding Questions:** Great opportunities for AfL throughout each lesson, designed to help your students draw on their previous learning and make purposeful connections across the unit. **Lesson Slides:** Engaging slides to guide each of your lessons. **Lesson Activities:** Includes accessible, low-floor high ceiling activities for each lesson that all students can access through adaptive teaching, leading to improved confidence. There are also opportunities embedded in each lesson for further challenge to extend learners further. **Exit Ticket:** Purposeful closing tasks which allows students to demonstrate their understanding, skills and knowledge - a great opportunity for AfL. This download provides both the Editable PPT Version and the PDF Version. **Terms of Use:** This product should only be used by the teacher who purchased it. This product is not to be shared with other teachers. **Were these resources helpful?** Please leave a rating to help improve future Mindful Maths resources.