Maths
Autumn Term Maths
The New National Curriculum is significantly more challenging than before. The children have been developing a very sound understanding of their maths to be able to meet these challenges.
Over the last few weeks this is what we have really been focusing on counting and place value so that the children have the foundations of their numerical understanding. The focuses we have been covering can be seen in the table below:
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The children have used a range of models and images to secure these key concepts.
In Key Stage 1, children begin to learn the place value of each digit in a two digit number (tens and ones). When children have a good understanding of place value they can use ‘partitioning’ to add two digit numbers. ‘Partitioning’ is splitting numbers up into tens and units and ‘recombining’ is putting numbers back together. The aim of teaching ‘partitioning’, is that eventually children will be able to add two digit numbers mentally. Here are some models and images used in enable children to understand portioning and recombining:
It is important that children have a good understanding of counting on and back in ones and tens so eventually they are able to do this mentally. Here are some models and images used to help children understand counting on and back in ones and tens.
Numeracy Games to Support Place ValueThese are games that we have played with the children in class.