Four Operations Unit | Financial Literacy | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities

This purposeful unit for Number Operations includes 12 lessons, and embeds financial literacy throughout:

Lesson 1 - focuses on mental calculations and estimation.

Lesson 2 - focuses on adding and subtracting integers and decimals.

Lesson 3 - focuses on short multiplication.

Lesson 4 - focuses on long multiplication.

Lesson 5 - focuses on multiplying decimals by integers.

Lesson 6 - focuses on short division.

Lesson 7 - focuses on introducing long division.

Lesson 8 - focuses on practicing and applying long division.

Lesson 9 - focuses on evaluating division strategies.

Lesson 10 - focuses on using the four operations with different strategies.

Lesson 11 & 12 - a 2 lesson project where students plan a time travel expedition with a financial budget, and the need to justify their choice of methods for efficiency.

Knowledge: Add & subtract integers and decimals, short multiplication, long multiplication, short division, long division, and ental calculations and estimation.

Financial contexts: totals, change, discounts, budgeting, value

Skills: Choose efficient mental or written methods for money problems, estimate and check answers when dealing with money, compare offers and calculate best value, justify method choice (mental vs written), and use reasoning to explain financial decisions

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 ‘Are written methods the most efficient?’

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 Tickets: A purposeful closing task 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.

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