Here are 12 counters on the board. How many groups of 4 can we make from them? And once you know that, what times fact does it match?
Take three hands-up answers, not open call-outs. Give five seconds of quiet think-time first. Don't confirm the answer yet — let the class hold both ideas ('how many fours?' and 'what times fact?') going into the model step.
We make equal groups from a pile of counters and read what we find two ways. Watch how a division question and a multiplication fact turn out to be the same three numbers.
First: how many fours are in 12? Then: how many fives are in 20? Look for the pattern between the groups you make and the times fact hiding underneath.
This is a real-counter demonstration, not the interactive. Two anchor demonstrations only.
Hold out for the class to name the times fact before you write it — that is the noticing the lesson turns on.
Today we work these together on the number line: how many fives in 20, how many fours in 12, then how many threes in 18. Start at 0 and add equal jumps of the group size until the marker lands exactly on the total. Then count the arcs to say how many groups, and name the times fact it matches.
Talk this one through together — pupils take turns at the board and the class agrees or corrects out loud.
Number-line-jumps in explore mode, line 0 to 30. For each one, an individual pupil adds jumps of the group size from 0 until the marker lands on the total, then counts the arcs aloud. The number of arcs is the answer — hold out for pupils to count them, don't read it off. After each, ask 'what times fact checks this?' and revoice a strong answer.
Watch for pupils overshooting the total — steer them back to landing exactly on it.
In your maths copy, write the fact family for 4, 5 and 20 — two multiplications and two divisions. Then do the same for 3, 6 and 18.
Now write all four sentences for 3, 6 and 18 the same way.
Walk the room glancing for all four sentences present and the numbers in the right places — whole-class copybook practice, not marking. Watch for pupils who write only the two multiplications and forget the two divisions.
Today we work through these together on the number line, from 0 each time: reach 12 in 2s, then 15 in 5s, then 28 in 4s, then 30 in 6s. Each one uses only that one jump size. When the marker lands on the total, count the arcs to say how many groups fit — then tell us the times fact that checks it.
This is the practice round — pupils take turns at the board, check each answer, and the class confirms before moving on. Keep the board work brisk rather than over-explaining.
Number-line-jumps in challenge mode. Each target lights only the one jump size, so the number of jumps is the answer to the division. Nothing on screen states the jump count before the pupil counts the arcs — that is the point. The four targets need different answers (6, 3, 7, 5), so a pupil cannot repeat the last answer. After each, ask 'what multiplication checks your answer?'
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