Mathematics

Intermediate

50 mins

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Multiplication: the 5, 3 and 6 Tables and Patterns

Explore patterns that the 5, 3 and 6 times tables make on a hundred square, and use the link between three-facts and six-facts (doubling) to build fluency.

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1 Getting Started
2 Watch and Notice
3 Try It Together
4 Double the Threes in Your Copy
5 Class Challenge
6 What Did We Notice?
7 What's Next
Pupil practice

1 - Getting Started ~4 mins

Illustration for Getting Started Let's count the whole class in fives together: 5, 10, 15, 20... Keep going until we pass thirty. Watch the numbers appear on the board as we call them out. Now look at every number we landed on. What do you notice about the last digit of each one? Do they all end in the same few numbers?

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Watch and Notice ~9 mins

Look at the three hundred squares showing the multiples of 5, of 3, and of 6. Watch the shape each pattern makes. Keep an eye out for numbers that are shaded on more than one square.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Try It Together ~9 mins

Key point

One person comes up to shade each fact on the board. Everyone else skip-counts aloud together as they shade, 5, 10, 15 and so on, so we read the answer as a class.

Now we work through some facts together on the class hundred square: first 5 × 4, then 3 × 6, then 6 × 3, and finally 6 × 5.

Tip

For each six-fact, check together that the sixes land on multiples of three.

Shade the table to find the fact

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4 - Double the Threes in Your Copy ~4 mins

COPYBOOK MOMENT

In your maths copy, write out the 3-times table. Then, beside each three-fact, write its double to make the matching six-fact. For example, next to 3 × 4 = 12 write 6 × 4 = 24, because 24 is 12 doubled.

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5 - Class Challenge ~8 mins

Key point

Now we build up the pattern picture together. Shade the multiples of 5, then clear and shade the multiples of 3, then the multiples of 6, and finally shade the numbers that are multiples of both 3 and 6. Predict before each reveal what the shading will look like.

Shade the pattern

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Pupil practice

Module 2 · The Four Operations: Mental and Written Number

Lesson 22 · Multiplication: the 5, 3 and 6 Tables and Patterns

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