1. How to help your child in maths
Maths Workshop
How to help your child in maths

2. Be positive about maths!
Everyone can learn maths!
It is important and fun and real!
You use it all the time: shopping, cooking, at work!
Be positive! Avoid saying “I was never any good at maths!” or “I never liked maths at school!”
Praise
Question - “What do you mean?” “How do you know?”

3. Our belief at Newtown

4. The Stages of Counting Continuous sound string (chanting)
Unbreakable list (always start at 1)
Breakable chain ( can start at any point)
Numerable chain (counting from 3 so 3 is 1st number, 4 is 2nd number…)
Bi directional chain (forwards and back)
Step counting (10s, 2s, 5s, 3s…)

5. Understanding number Number represents a quantity
Numbers get bigger by 1 as you count forwards
Numbers get smaller by 1 as you count backwards

6. Problems with counting! Teen and ty numbers

7. Opportunities to count at home
Collections: go gos, marbles, shell, conkers… Encourage 1:1, move or line up
Count actions: hopping, jumping, catch… Gives opportunity to count bigger!
Cooking, laying the table, sorting washing, putting toys away, shopping…
Games: how many bubbles can you pop? How many times can you keep the balloon up? Hide and Seek, board games, Scoring in sport…

8. Counting forwards and backwards to 100 Activity using straws and numbers to show how counting repeats through 10. Activity using straws and numbers to show how counting repeats through 10.

9. From counting to calculating
Counting underpins all calculations
Addition: counting on
Subtraction: counting on or back
Multiplication: counting in steps
Division counting back in steps

10. × ÷ + - Vocabulary Times Multiply Of Groups of Product Multiple
Repeated addition ÷
Share equally
Groups of
Divide
Divided into
Divided by
Split +
Add
And
Altogether
Sum
Total
Plus
More -
Subtract
Less
Find the difference
Count up
Take away
Minus
Leave

11. Role Play
Great for counting and putting addition, subtraction, multiplication and division into real life and money!
Shops: toy / pet / cake…
Café
Post office

12. Bingo games (A great way to practise number facts!)
Match spots to numbers
Count number of objects and match to number
Number pairs (6, 10, 20)
1 more or less
10 more or less
Half or double
Multiplication tables

13. Calculating Counting on Counting back Bridging through ten
Partitioning
Compensation/adjusting
Doubles and near doubles
Missing numbers (using the inverse)

14. Problem Solving Adding all together
Taking away or finding the difference
Sharing or grouping
Game strategies
Time
Shape language
Measures

15. Websites and Books
“Maths for Mums and Dads” by Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew
BBC bitesize
Espresso website