1. Thursday 5th October 2017 Mrs Morgan-Hillam – Maths Leader
Y5/Y6 Maths Workshop
Grab yourself a drink and have a look at our estimation station. Have a go. You may win a prize.
Thursday 5th October 2017
Mrs Morgan-Hillam – Maths Leader

2. Aims of Tonight The Upper KS2 expectations for the year.
How we assess maths at St. Oswald’s.
Division and Multiplication methods.
Times Tables Games to play.
Estimation Stations
Practical Ideas for you to help your child.

3. Maths at St. Oswald’s
Fluency, Reasoning and Problem Solving – Every day is a Reasoning day.
Encourage our children to be mathematical thinkers – Ping! Ping! Ping!
Think of a number – what do you know about that number?
Start every lesson with counting forwards and backwards.
Starter – Revisit of work previously done.
Main activity and Plenary
Reasoning is threaded throughout – Would your rather be…?

4. The KLIPs documents Out Calculators Probability In
Formal methods for multiplication.
Calculators
Formal methods for division.
Probability
Square numbers.
Cube Numbers.
Prime numbers to 100.
Roman Numerals!
Greater emphasis on Fractions and Percentages

5. How do we know how well our children are doing?
Ongoing in daily maths lessons.
Fortnightly / Weekly arithmetic tests.
Termly assessments.
Regular timed times tables tests.
Self evaluation.
Regular book scrutinies to identify progress in areas.
End of KS2 SATs – 1 arithmetic and 2 reasoning papers of equal difficulty.

6. For our Y5 children
They will have to sit a times tables test in Summer 2019 – at the moment but it can all change.

7. Division

8. Division

9. What do you have to know to be able to correctly solve long division questions?
Double
Times Tables
Subtraction
Understand what division is
Know that the answer is sensible
Possibly round up or down after division and know which one fits.

10. How can you help your child to conquer division?
Times Tables
Subtraction accuracy
Doubling 2 digit numbers

11. Times Tables Tasks
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Partner Race
Playing cards

14. Multiplication Start with the ones first.
Children seem to grasp this quicker, but sometimes forget the 0 when they are multiplying by the tens digit.

16. Please speak to us if you need us to help at all.
And finally…..
Thank you for coming.
Please speak to us if you need us to help at all.