1. What does teaching for deeper understanding look like?

2. Deeper understanding …?

3. Engaging?
Encouraging deeper understanding?

4. Depth
To acquire depth of understanding, you may have to accept that going backwards is the first step forwards
Don’t be afraid to resort to methods perhaps more common in primary schools to help secure understanding of concepts, number bonds and fluency
Furthermore, strengthening the link between feeder schools and secondary maths teams can only benefit your students

5. What is your starting point?
Assumed
Knowledge
Typical Progression
Deeper Understanding
What is your starting point?

6. Multiplication – Deeper Understanding
Commutative, Associative and Distributive Properties
Understanding the uses of factorisation
Understanding the ‘whys’ of fractional operations
Understanding the origins of area formulae and applying those principles to new shapes

7. A Unit of Work
The following slides are ideas for activities to promote deeper understanding of multiplication.
All resources are available online at solvemymaths.com
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19. Factor Multiplication
Write down 20 ways to make 4000
using only multiplication

23. X + 25 10 20 X +
25 x 30 X + X + X + X +

25. 10 x 2
15 x 4
5 x 3 x 4
2 x 5 x 2
12 x 6
40 x 8
10 x 4 x 8
6 x 2 x 6
11 x 22
11 x 11 x 2
2 x 10 x 20
20 x 20
11 x 2 x 25
7 x 4 x 4
7 x 16
11 x 50

26. 40 x 50
8 x 5 x 50
6 x 14
2 x 7 x 6
12 x 11
11 x 4 x 3
18 x 18
9 x 2 x 2 x 9
24 x 32
4 x 32 x 6
48 x 32
12 x 32 x 4
I can’t do this one because...
I can’t do this one because...
3 x 13
17 x 17