1. Supporting your child with maths
March 2017

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Number Bond and Multiplication Challenges

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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