Supporting your child with maths March 2017

Homework! Homework is always based on what your child has already learnt in school and shouldn’t be new to them. Our calculation policies, showing how we teach the four rules – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division - are available on the school website.

Strategies in school (and at home) Equipment, equipment, equipment! Visual resources – number squares, number lines – all available in the back of the Home-School Diary Practising number bonds and times tables

Number Bond and Multiplication Challenges

Maths is Fun – a few ideas Counting: Red cars on the way to school Biscuits on a plate Spring flowers in the garden Socks in the wash (and possibly a discussion about why the answer should be even!) Birds seen on the pond

Maths is Fun – a few ideas Measuring: Weight – baking cakes Length – measuring feet, the length of their room, making Play Doh snakes Capacity – playing with bottles in the bath, doing the washing up Time – reading clocks

Maths is Fun – a few ideas General skills Dice and board games Naming shapes – circle, triangle, square, rectangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, sphere, cone, cube, cuboid, pyramid Fractions – using the vocabulary half and quarter - accurately Using money