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

·     Roll and race: http://thisreadingmama.com/free-roll-race-number-sense-games/

·     Dice games: http://nrich.maths.org/public/leg.php?code=5051

·    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

Year 2: Mathematics Inspire Workshop - Times Tables

Many thanks to all the parents who attended our Inspire Workshop on Times Tables today. For all those we know that wanted to come, but couldn't, here's a video with some ideas to support your child at home. Also, there are links below to the apps we referred to. You'll need to search for Android versions.


 

Here's the 12 x 12 grid you asked for, so you can print off and practise at home.

Just right-click and Save As, or click and drag the picture onto your desktop.

Here are the apps you wanted to know about . . .


DK 10 minute maths: FREE

Squeebles: £2.49

Puffin Academy for MyMaths on iPads: FREE

Math Bingo: FREE

For those needing a little extra support, these are expensive but extremely effective:

Maths, 4-6: In-app purchases

Maths Practise: 2s, 5s and 10s: £3.99

Year 4 ICT: Human robots

We had great fun this week programming our very own human robots. First, we designed our own programming language. For example, instead of ‘Right’, we wrote RT and for ‘Forward’, we wrote ‘FW’. This saved time when writing our programs.

We then wrote our programs, debugging (fixing problems) and thinking of ways to simplify them as we went by using repetition in our sequences. Some of us even moved on to use conditional commands such as IF, THEN and UNTIL. 

By the end of the lesson, we had completed various coding missions including 'Create a dance routine' and 'Fetch objects and move them'.

Why not try getting your own human robot to dance with this piece of code we wrote:

LT leg UP 20cm

LT leg DOWN 

ROTATE HEAD 90 CW

RPT 4

RT leg UP 20cm

RT leg DOWN

ROTATE HEAD 90 CCW

RPT 4

THEN

LT arm UP UNTIL STOP

LT arm DOWN

RPT 4

RT arm UP UNTIL STOP

RT arm DOWN

ROTATE 90 CCW

TILT HEAD 10 RT

TILT HEAD 10 LT

RPT 8

RPT UNTIL MUSIC STOPS

Year 2's Numeracy Terrific  Traffic Survey

As part of our numeracy lessons this week, we started the week by undertaking a traffic survey to collect our data.  We recorded the data using a tally chart and this week we will be producing bar charts, pictograms and Carroll diagrams using this data.