1. Supporting Primary Maths at Home: Addition
Outline of the workshop-
Being Maths Role Models
The process of learning addition skills
Key skills you need to practise at home
Supporting Using and applying skills at home

2. What’s the most important message for our children?
Our brains are trainable muscles- with practise we can succeed.
Persistence and confidence are key to learning in maths.
Maths is a passport to later life...
What to do if stuck?

3. Addition Stage 1
Counting accurately- practical activities, matching numbers to quantities
Number recognition, 0-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20
Finding one more than a number from 1 to 10, then 10 to 20
Using vocabulary associated with addition and subtraction

4. Addition Stage 2
Begin to use the + and = sign to record mental calculations
Know by heart all number bonds to 10 then 20
Use knowledge to know that addition can be done in any order to do mental calculations more efficiently

5. Addition Stage 3 Adding three single digit numbers mentally
Know by heart all number bonds to 20
Use +and = to record mental calculations
Use number line to make informal jottings
Use partitioning to reflect mental methods =

6. Addition Stage 4
Using informal pencil and paper methods (jottings) and introducing vertical addition
Adding TU and TU, moving into HTU using jottings (most significant digit first) 83
+ 42
----
120
+ 5
125

7. Addition Stage 5
Vertical format least significant digit first extends to bigger numbers
368
+ 493
----- 11
150
+ 700
861

8. Addition Stage 6 Children using the compact layout, involving carrying
368
+ 491
-----
859
Extending to decimals

9. Addition Stage 7
Compact addition using carrying for thousands, hundreds, tens and units, and decimals
Consolidation of Stage 6

10. Key elements to practise at home.... Practise is key!
Number recognition
(Bingo for any numbers, recognising door /car registration numbers/ knowing the date, using coins )
Counting
(When shopping, estimating amounts, using coins,
Counting on and back e.g. How many steps to the sea...can we count back...)
No. bonds to 10, 20
(Make own puzzles, flash cards, linking number toys)
Times tables-
This can be practised anywhere at any time!
If you aren’t secure- practise with them!
Measurement
Distances, amounts- capacity in practical and purposeful contexts- basic recognition of amounts! Comparing which has more/less
Time
Basic time telling but also planning a journey- read the time tables, work out estimated times of arrival

11. Supporting Using and Applying at home
Maths websites that they enjoy!

12. Please complete the feed back questionnaire! 
Where do you need future support to help with your child’s maths learning at home?