19 Jan What’s happening in Year 5 – Week 2
This week Year 5 have shown great perseverance in our multiplication and division topic in maths.
They have been multiplying increasing large numbers by 2 digits using the complex long multiplication method. We worked systematically, first multiplying by the ones digit, remembering to add a placeholder before multiplying by the tens digit, then finally adding the partial products. They put effort into making their workings neat and applied this method to solve a range of problems.
They then adapted quickly to using the bus stop method to divide numbers. This required us to quickly recall our division known facts and accurately regroup where necessary. We were even able to find missing digits in a short division calculation!