1. Mathematics At Horsell Village School March 2007

2. At The Horsell Village School …...create understanding. … apply strategies. …use maths to solve problems. … challenge children to think.

3. What are we preparing your child for?  80% of jobs your 6 year old child will do haven’t been invented yet  Life long learning  Logical/lateral thinking  Problem solving

4. How we learn kinaesthetic auditoryvisual

5. How was it for you?  What were your experiences at school? –How did you feel about maths? –What can you remember doing?

6. Can you add together all the numbers from 1 to 10? How did you do it?

7. Horizontal Problems 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10= How would children solve it?

8. 42 + ___ = 65 42 +__ +__ 65 65

9. 42 + 23 = 65 42 + 23 = 65 420 + ___ = 650

10. The Curriculum  Using and applying maths  Counting and understanding number  Knowing and using number facts  Calculating  Understanding shape  Measuring  Handling Data

11. Mental Maths Why? Why? Rehearse and sharpen skills What ? What ?  Counting in steps of different sizes  Practise mental calculations and rapid recall of number facts.  Building on previous strategies and developing them 

12. Pattern  Its about looking for the different possibilities  Can you see a pattern?  How many patterns can you see?

13. Number lines  Jumping on  Blank

14. Hundred Square

15. Times tables  Multiplication is repeated addition 3+3+3+3+3=15 3+3+3+3+3=15 3x5=15 3x5=15  Chanting/memorising only helps so far  Children need to understand the process first

16. Arrays

17. Conclusion  Maths should be lively, enjoyable and challenging  Development of concepts, processes and skills, that are practised, learnt, re learnt, consolidated, refined and extended  Only then can they be applied

18. website By the end of the week we will have a curriculum link to pages which are designed to help you support your child at home. By the end of the week we will have a curriculum link to pages which are designed to help you support your child at home. These include:  Ideas  Games  Strategies

19. Classrooms  Otters - Reception  Badgers – Year 1  Snowy Owls – Year 2  Tawny Owls – Year 2