Tuesday 27 June 2017

EYFS and Year 1 Maths Parent Workshop

Today we welcomed parents from Reception and Year 1 to come and learn about how to support the children in developing number sense and fluency.

Here are some of the key messages from the workshop:


   Working with larger numbers does not necessarily make your child a better     mathematician. Focus on your child being fluent with numbers to 10.
   Being able to count is not the same as understanding the true value of a number.
   Playing, talking and experiencing number is much more important than pen and paper work. Play games and ask questions such as: ‘Why is this?’; ‘How do you know?’; ‘Could you do this in another way?’.
   Try to avoid counting whenever possible. Ask children to group objects to help them to work out the total, for example a child may not be able to recognise six objects but if grouped in two groups of three this may help.
   Use egg boxes for ten frames, milk bottle tops, dominoes and dice to help children recognise numbers from pictures.

We played a variety of games using dominoes, dice, tens frames and dot cards. Here are some links to some of the games which you may wish to try at home.

Dominoes: https://nrich.maths.org/1200

·    Tens frame games: https://nrich.maths.org/10742


If you would like to find out more about developing early number sense then this is a great article which also explains how dot cards can be used: https://nrich.maths.org/2477

A big thank you to parents who were able to attend and for showing so much enthusiasm. Please do come and see me if you would like further information.

Mrs James

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