The three Rs

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Daily Life

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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.
Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘civilisation’ and ‘peasantry’.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between social and economic history.

Maths

Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Lesson Planning

Discover that only some boys and no girls went to school in Ancient Egypt; describe how papyrus was made; work out some calculations using Ancient Egyptian numbers.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand that not many Ancient Egyptians learnt to read and write.
To Find out how papyrus was made and used and learn the Ancient Egyptian numbering system.
To solve some calculations using Ancient Egyptian numbers.

Children will:

Explain that only some boys and no girls went to school in Ancient Egypt.
Describe how papyrus was made.
Work out some calculations using Ancient Egyptian numbers.

Planning

Provided Resources

Papyrus images
How Papyrus was made
Ancient Egyptian numbers
Ancient Egyptian arithmetic

Unit Resources

You Will Need

White paper cut into strips
Diluted PVA glue
Kitchen towels

Weblinks

Photographs of papyrus being made today from lib.umich.edu
Details of papyrus in British Museum - YouTube clip
Ancient Egyptian numbers system from childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk