• 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 18 rows of 16 seats. 257 tickets have been sold. How many seats are still free? → 31Prompt: How many seats are there altogether?
2. 942 × 65 = ? → 61230Prompt: Multiply 942 by the ones digit of 65, then by the tens.
3. At a swimming pool, adult tickets cost $8 and child tickets $6. Lucia's group buys 2 adult and 2 child tickets. How much do they pay in total? → 28Prompt: 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 8 classes of 27 pupils. All go on a trip by coach. Each coach seats 52. How many coaches are needed? → 5Prompt: How many pupils altogether?
2. Felix is saving for a bike that costs $599. Felix already has $119 and saves $40 every month. After how many months will Felix 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. A school has 5 classes of 30 pupils. All go on a trip by coach. Each coach seats 57. How many coaches are needed? → 3Prompt: How many pupils altogether?
2. Diego is saving for a bike that costs $376. Diego already has $136 and saves $20 every month. After how many months will Diego have enough? → 12Prompt: How much more does the bike cost than the money already saved?

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