LESSON PLAN

Unit/Lesson Title

Lesson duration: 50
minutes
National Professional Standards for Teachers: Domain
Standard

Stage: 2 Year:
3/4

Class/Group:
Upper Primary

Specific Teaching Target: Focus area/s

Rationale

Syllabus Outcome/s
WMS2.3 Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and
symbols to represent, mathematical ideas.
MS2.2 Estimates, measures, compares and records the areas
of surfaces in
square centimetres and square metres

Prior Knowledge

Resources: Quiz Boxes, SMART board, 1m ruler, newspaper,

masking tape

Syllabus
Indicator/s
By the end of the
lesson the
students will
understand what
a square metre is
and how to
calculate it.

Time

Content/Learning Experiences

Teaching
Strategies

Class
Organisatio
n

Introduction (Engagement)
5min

15mi
n

Inform students that this Maths session will be

learning about Metre Square. But first we shall
do some Simple Maths warm up exercises.
Body
Run a Quiz Boxes (Jeopardy) with questions that
will lead into square metres, several
multiplication questions.

Sitting at
class

Assessment
Techniques

Ask the students if they know how to measure a

square metre?
Create with newspaper a 1 metre square using a
1m ruler, newspaper and masking tape.
Have the students measure items in the
classroom and hallway to get an idea of square
metres.
Questions the students how many square metres
is their desk, SMART board, window
Question the students how many students can
they fit into a Square metre.
Have the students cut the square metre carefully
in half and place on the end to make a long
rectangle, question the students if it is still a
square metre and if it is still the same size?
Can the students fit the same amount of
students into the changed shape than when it
was a square?
Then have the students make an L shape with
the 2 parts. Question the students if it is the
same size
Adjustment:
If the students are finding concept easy
introduce
Question the students how many cm in a metre.
Question the students how to find the area of a
square L X H
Question the students how to find the area of a
triangle X L X H

Conclusion(Presentation/Reflection)
Question the students to explain in their own
words what a square metre is and what it could
be useful to measure.

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Deep knowledge
Background knowledge
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