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Mathematics

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Indus Valley Cities

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between cultural and social history.

Maths

  • Y5 Identify 3D shapes, including cuboids, from 2D representations.
  • Y6 Recognise and build simple 3D shapes, including making nets.
  • Y6 Solve problems involving the relative sizes of two quantities.

Lesson Planning

Discover how the people of the Indus Valley were good mathematicians; construct a typical Indus Valley brick shape from a card net; learn about the use of rulers for measuring during the Indus Valley civilisation period.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand that the Indus Valley people were good mathematicians.
  • To make a cuboid brick in the ratio that the Indus Valley people used and understand that the Indus Valley people used rulers for accurate measurements.

Provided Resources

  • Mud Brick table
  • Examples of city grid system
  • Plans of cities
  • Ruler and dice images
  • Brick image

You Will Need

  • Thin card (white and brown)
  • Brown paint and brushes if necessary
  • Rulers
  • Scissors

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