Year 2 Maths · Term 2 · Weeks 13–14

A private label-order display

Make something a willing reader could actually use: a replayable paper route guide or a complete quantity/order card with a checking reason.

15–30 adjustable minutes or several short offers; optional project, not required homework.

Whole launch source

Fictional quantity cards: Our useful quantity guide. First 712 labels; second 721 labels; third 127 labels. Each number counts the same kind of label, not prices or observed stock. A hundred has the value of ten tens; a ten has the value of ten ones. Represent whole quantities, compare their places and explain an order.

Make a useful quantity guide: show each whole value, choose an order and explain a check. Keep zero places labelled.

Make your useful thing

  1. Choose one job and explain who might use the guide. A fictional reader or solo rehearsal is fine.
  2. Receive own source-specific route or representation before adult worked support.
  3. Build/dictate a complete guide with a legend, full quantities or directions and one checking reason.
  4. Use the stated source to replay/check. If a willing real reader tries it, record their actual words/actions with permission; otherwise keep it as a proposed test.
  5. Change one explained feature and keep both chosen versions manually. Recheck the full source after any change.
Adult teaching after the own try

712 = 7 hundreds + 1 ten + 2 ones = 700 + 10 + 2. 721 = 7 hundreds + 2 tens + 1 one = 700 + 20 + 1. 127 = 1 hundred + 2 tens + 7 ones = 100 + 20 + 7. Least to greatest: 127, 712, 721. Compare from the highest differing place; a last digit alone cannot override an earlier place.

A complete different guided try

Fictional quantity cards: Our useful quantity guide — separate later cards. First 624 labels; second 642 labels; third 426 labels. Each number counts the same kind of label, not prices or observed stock. A hundred has the value of ten tens; a ten has the value of ten ones. Represent whole quantities, compare their places and explain an order.

Make a useful quantity guide: show each whole value, choose an order and explain a check. Keep zero places labelled.

624 = 6 hundreds + 2 tens + 4 ones = 600 + 20 + 4. 642 = 6 hundreds + 4 tens + 2 ones = 600 + 40 + 2. 426 = 4 hundreds + 2 tens + 6 ones = 400 + 20 + 6. Least to greatest: 426, 624, 642. Compare from the highest differing place; a last digit alone cannot override an earlier place.

Make it yours

  1. Swap the story purpose while preserving source quantities/positions, or declare/recheck a complete new source.
  2. Use marks, oral directions, sign/AAC or a tactile model. No polished handwriting or digital art criterion.
  3. Make a larger paper guide, a quiet one-card version or an optional new challenge with explicitly new values.

A useful product has complete known source information, a supported route/value/check and truthful open reader outcomes. Quality of drawing or public sharing is not mathematical evidence.