Open the document and select your child’s year group. You’ll find PDFs explaining how we teach each concept, along with resources and games to use at home.
Focus on helping your child build a strong understanding rather than moving on too quickly—use the problem-solving activities to deepen their learning.
More opportunities to practise key maths skills are also available below.
We hope that this page helps you discover the what, why and how we do numeracy at Mile End. We also would like to offer support for you to develop your child's numeracy skills at home that best support the methods used in school. The document below highlighting how the four operations are taught is an informative resource that provides a fantastic starting point. Scroll down to access Advice for Parents from Professor Jo Boaler and Numeracy Glossary with Useful Website Links to support home learning.
This slide show has been developed to share how children should be exposed to concrete material before moving on to pictorial and finally abstract representation of number.