Maths Curriculum Evening March 2012

Aims of meeting  To share information about how your children learn  To provide an opportunity to see some of the activities your children experience  To give you an opportunity to ask questions

What were your experiences at school?  Did you enjoy maths?  What can you remember about your learning?  Has your learning helped you in your adult life?

At The Horsell Village School...  Children acquire skills, knowledge and understanding  Children apply strategies  Children use maths to solve problems and investigate  Children are challenged to think, persevere and take risks

Why ?  The future is unknown  Your children are likely to have multiple careers  Many of these jobs and careers have not been invented yet Therefore children need to be  excited by learning and be life long learners  flexible  lateral and logical thinkers  able to solve problems and persevere

How do we learn? We receive information in different ways and then process  Visual  Auditory  Kineasthetic

Practical Equipment  The children throughout Reception, Year 1 and 2 have a learning experience rich in practical resources. They learn actively.  This learning is complimented by recording using informal jottings, writing, pictures, diagrams in their maths books. This recording is an extension of their thinking and links with all their experiences using resources and practical equipment.

A huge array of resources

Learning at The Horsell Village School...  Jumping along number lines  Using building bricks  Putting bean bags in hoops  Laying the table for a teddy bears picnic  All our planning incorporates the children acquiring and developing skills, knowledge and understanding in an active and engaging way within purposeful tasks and activities that link to topics.

A toolkit We teach children a variety of strategies AND The ability and confidence to select and use the most Reliable Reliable Accurate Accurate Efficient strategy for them Efficient strategy for them

Addition Strategies Number lines Partitioning = = = = = = 35= 61

Subtraction Strategies Number lines Partitioning = = = = 23

Multiplication Strategies 2 x 5 What does this mean? It actually means: 2 lots of 5 2 sets of 5 2 groups of 5 Which can be represented by an array Which can be represented by an array

Division Strategies 10 ÷ 5 What does this mean? It actually means: 10 shared into 5 equal groups

Mental facts  Knowing a multitude of number facts is crucial. An understanding of number, their size, what they are made of, where they come in the number system is so important.  This knowledge is needed when using strategies and when calculating using all 4 operations  This knowledge creates confidence

Maths is like a wall We need to have solid foundations in order to build. If there are any cracks or missing bricks we could stumble.

How you can help your child at home  Practising number facts – number bonds, doubles, halves, multiplication facts  Place value – looking at numbers, how many hundreds, tens and units are there?  Reading and writing numbers  Playing cards and other number games  Telling the time  Cooking  Shopping using real money  Measuring – sewing, DIY  Sharing out treats

A chance to see  Any questions  Please take this opportunity to go and see some of the maths activities and resources in the classrooms and ask any further questions. Thank you for coming