• Curriculum

Order of operations

Unit 12 – 1 week

The PowerPoint file contains slides you can use in the classroom to support each of the learning outcomes for this unit, listed below.

The slides are comprehensively linked to associated pedagogical guidance in the NCETM Primary Mastery Professional Development materials. There are also links to the ready-to-progress criteria detailed in the DfE Primary Mathematics Guidance 2020.

Learning outcomes

1 Pupils explain how addition and subtraction can help to solve multiplication problems efficiently (I)
2 Pupils explain how addition and subtraction can help to solve multiplication problems efficiently (II)
3 Pupils explain how the distributive law applies to multiplication expressions with a common factor (addition)
4 Pupils use their knowledge of the distributive law to solve equations including multiplication, addition and subtraction
5 Pupils explain how addition and subtraction can help to solve division problems efficiently
6 Pupils explain how the distributive law applies to division expressions with a common divisor (addition)
7 Pupils explain how the distributive law applies to division expressions with a common divisor (subtraction)
8 Pupils use their knowledge of the distributive law to solve equations including division, addition and subtraction

 

Phase

  • Primary
  • KS2
  • Year 6
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