Doubling for The Little Red Hen

The focus story in Year 1 this week has been 'The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza'  and in our maths the children had to help the Little Red Hen solve a problem. Having already collected all of the ingredients to make her pizza the Little Red Hen then had a phone call announcing the arrival of more guests. Unfortunately she hadn't got enough of each ingredient to make the pizza so the children had to use their doubling abilities to help her. They focused on using different strategies to work out answers and were encouraged to use the maths help desk to find the best way to get 'unstuck' when they found it challenging. Lots of resilience was demonstrated and the children did a brilliant job of using different addition strategies to help the Little Red Hen!

Using a 100 square to count on as the numbers started getting larger.

Mental addition by holding the number in our head and counting on.

Adding the tens and units to double a number.

Counting on from a large number using objects to help.