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Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK Mathematicians

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Objectives

History

  • Ask and answer questions.
  • Explore changes within and beyond living memory.

Design and Technology

  • Design and make purposeful, functional and appealing products for themselves and other users.

Maths

  • Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction or multiplication and division.
  • Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.

Lesson Planning

Compare Babbage’s  ‘Difference Engine’ with a modern calculator. Make a junk model ‘function machine’.

Teaching Outcomes
 To find out about Charles Babbage’s ‘Difference Engine’ and compare it with a modern calculator.
To design, build and decorate a ‘function machine’.
To create at least one function for a machine, changing a range of input numbers using a precisely defined operation.

Children will:

  • Ask questions about Babbage’s ‘difference engine’, comparing it with a modern calculator.
  • Make a ‘function machine’ using junk modelling.
  • Write input and output numbers for different machine functions.

You Will Need

  • Sticky notes
  • Calculators
  • Craft and junk modelling resources

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