• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Multi-step word problems with whole numbers; Long multiplication: three-digit by two-digit). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. A theatre has 25 rows of 17 seats. 300 tickets have been sold. How many seats are still free? → 125Prompt: How many seats are there altogether?
2. 537 × 47 = ? → 25239Prompt: Multiply 537 by the ones digit of 47, then by the tens.
3. At a swimming pool, adult tickets cost $5 and child tickets $4. Kofi's group buys 4 adult and 6 child tickets. How much do they pay in total? → 44Prompt: Work out the adult cost and the child cost separately.

• Show an array of chairs, eggs or windows and ask how many there are without counting one by one.
• Share the objective: Multi-step problems with larger numbers. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: A school has 8 classes of 32 pupils. All go on a trip by coach. Each coach seats 45. How many coaches are needed?
• Step 1: 8 × 32 = 256
• Step 2: 256 ÷ 45 = 5 r 31
• Step 3: 6
• Answer: 6
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. A school has 9 classes of 30 pupils. All go on a trip by coach. Each coach seats 52. How many coaches are needed? → 6Prompt: How many pupils altogether?
2. Diego is saving for a bike that costs $775. Diego already has $295 and saves $40 every month. After how many months will Diego have enough? → 12Prompt: How much more does the bike cost than the money already saved?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 8 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Chloe is saving for a bike that costs $625. Chloe already has $205 and saves $35 every month. After how many months will Chloe have enough? → 12Prompt: How much more does the bike cost than the money already saved?
2. A school has 9 classes of 28 pupils. All go on a trip by coach. Each coach seats 52. How many coaches are needed? → 5Prompt: How many pupils altogether?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/math/grade-5.