1. Welcome to Year 1’s Maths Family Workshop Using and Applying

2. New Curriculum and Assessment  At Blossomfield we have started to use the new curriculum and assessment documents that go with it.  As a school we believe that it is very important for children to apply the skills that they are taught, into real life situations.

3. Shape  How many different shapes can you see?  Discuss the properties of each shape, for example it is a triangle because I can see 3 sides and 3 corners.  How many of each shape can you see?

4. Money  Identify different coins, put them in order smallest amount to largest.  Use coins to make different amounts.  Can you give me change if I buy this item with £1?

5. Measuring  Before measuring ask children to make estimates. Are they sensible guesses?  Using the ruler carefully, making sure the 0 is lined up with the start of the line.  Measure to the closest cm.

6. Word Problems  When working out problems we teach children to identify what the problem is asking us to do.  Highlight key parts.  Using visual aids can help.  This house has 2 flights of stairs, each with 10 stairs. How many stairs are there altogether?

7. Number  There are endless possibilities to the maths activities you can do with number cards.  We have thought of some but please feel free to do any others you can think of and share your ideas with others on your table.  Ordering, finding the missing number(s), find the number with 4 tens and 7 units, find 2 more/less than my number, sequences of 2’s, 5’s, 10’s.

8. Number Continued  We are very proud of our Lego house and it would be a shame to dismantle it without ‘getting some maths out of it’!  How many red, blue, green bricks?  How many bricks in a column?  How can you use this to work out how many bricks in 1 wall?  There are 2 windows on each side, how many windows altogether?  When the numbers are large use jottings or tallies.

9. Moving around the activities  Please feel free to try all the activities or just one or two. We realise you may not have time for all of them!  Some of the activities have sheets that you can record answers on to but please feel free to work practically or on whiteboards if you wish.  Maths Games  Ask if we can get you anything or help in any way