Maths

Progression in Maths 

Supporting Maths at Home

How can you support Mathematics at home?

• Counting in lots of different ways e.g. counting steps as you walk, counting teddies on the bed, counting grapes on the plate

• Asking children ‘if I had one more, how many?’ and ‘if I had one less, how many?’

• Looking for and noticing numbers in the environment, door numbers, road signs, date on calendars

• Playing board and card games e.g. using and recognising number patterns on dice

• Counting along a number track

• Talk about time, days of the week, months of the year, seasons and times of the day

• Playing with real money e.g sorting and identifying coins, paying for small amounts

• Helping with cooking e.g measuring and weighing ingredients

• Recognising and making patterns

• Making models using and learning about properties of 3d shapes

• Singing number songs

• Using loose parts e.g. buttons and pebbles to count and partition into groups

• Support children to sport connections between what they are learning at school and how this can be applied in the real world

• Putting in height, weight or size order

• Solving real life addition and subtraction problems e.g ‘we have 3 green apples and 2 red apples how many altogether?’

• Using our school’s mathletics subscription to play games - the login details can be found in the front of your child’s reading record

• Encourage your child to record numbers using their own representations e.g. drawing a line to represent each number.

How we teach calculation at East Ruston

One of the most common barriers that parents face when helping their children with their maths is that the written methods taught in school today may not be familiar.  Our focus is very much on helping children to understand the mathematics, to visualise what is happening to the numbers they are working with and to comprehend how the manipulation of numbers helps them to solve real life problems.  Whilst there can be a value in learning a method by rote, misunderstanding occur when children do not have a secure grasp of number concepts.  Therefore, from an early age , we use lots of objects (known as concrete resources or drawing pictorial representations.

In order to ensure that progression is logical and helpful from the start, we have written our calculation procedure.  This guarantees the pupils build upon their Mathematics knowledge from Nursery to Year 2.  It may help you to refer to our Calculation procedure when you are helping your children at home.

      Mathletics

        As a school, we subscribe to Mathletics. Children will use this programme in school and often home learning will be set using this programme.  There are also               lots of fun games available for your child to play at home. These games will support children to develop fluency.  Your child's Mathletics login details can be                   found    in your child's reading diary.

Teaching Maths

    We aim to :

• Make maths fun

• Develop confidence to have a go

• Teach importance of applying maths to everyday situations.  This is woven through the curriculum using problem solving and reasoning questions for each concept

• Provide opportunities to use practical resources to support the understanding of mathematical concepts.  After using resources, children record their ideas and knowledge through drawings and representations before they write the abstract numbers

• Provide whole class teaching (and sometimes year group specific) usually mixed ability allowing peer learning to take place

    Calculation and number focus

• The principal focus of mathematics teaching in Key Stage 1 is to ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency with whole and part number, counting and place value

• Creating a visual awareness of number

• Sharing recording and workings out

• Being able to talk through their reasoning

• Solve Problems