1. Changes to National Curriculum Maths in Primary Schools (selected highlights)
1989 the first national curriculum
1990 testing introduced for 7 year olds
1994 testing for 11 year olds
1995 a new national curriculum
1999 the national numeracy strategy
2000 the new new national curriculum
2006 the renewed framework for mathematics to replace the numeracy strategy
2010 nearly another national curriculum – scrapped by new government along with the renewed framework
2014 the new new new national curriculum comes into force

2. Maths Information Evening November 2013

3. What is changing this time?
Content is pushed down the school – children are being expected to learn more earlier
In particular formal written calculation methods are to be taught earlier

4. What are we doing at school?
Starting on the 2014 curriculum now to try to catch up
Carrying on with daily maths lessons
Teaching number facts in an additional daily session

5. Why the number facts?

6. I can see 681 is a bit less than 100x7 so I’ll estimate 95
Why the number facts?
I can see 681 is a bit less than 100x7 so I’ll estimate 95

7. (The next one up is 70 which is too much)
Why the number facts?
68÷7 I know 63÷7 is 9
(The next one up is 70 which is too much)

8. Why the number facts? I know that 68-63=5
I can do this bit all in one go – 7 into 68 goes 9 times with 5 left over

9. Why the number facts? I can do this step all in one go too.
7 into 51 goes 7 times (49) with 2 left over

10. Why the number facts?

11. What can you do at home? Practical maths
Little and often practice of number facts
Support children with their homework as appropriate
Talk to us about any problems your child is having; use the suggestions teachers give on topic letters, at parent appointments or in their welcome meetings

12. The problem with calculations...
Back in my day we did it differently. This is how I was taught to subtract:
This is how we teach the children to subtract...

13. Decomposition
472 – 238
H T U
4 7 2
__________ 6 1 2 3 4

14. Counting Back
85 – 46
=39 85 45 39 40
<
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< 1 5 40

15. Counting On = 39 85 – 46 > > > 4 + 30 + 5 = 39 4 30 5 46 5080 85

16. Counting On – Complementary Addition
£20 - £6.43
20.00
-6.43
0.07
0.50
3.00
10.00
£13.57
(6.50)
(7.00)
(10.00)
(20.00)

17. Nearly Numbers 467 – 199 467 – 200 = 267 267 + 1 = 268 > < 1 467

18. Strategies Get your child to explain to you
Look any worked examples on your child’s homework
‘Keeping Up With The Kids’ course

19. Practical maths
Money
Weighing and measuring
Time

20. Different types of number facts
Counting
Subitisation, finger maths, etc.
Doubles and halves
Addition and subtraction facts/ number bonds
Counting in different sized steps
Times tables
FDP equivalents

21. General number facts hints
Bribery! – your child probably has a number fact target at school and might be rewarded for achieving it
Apps and online games
Little and often (in the car is always popular)
Help your child to make cards to test themself. How many can you get right in 1 minute?
Some activities rehearse a variety of facts and skills – board games, shopping, cooking, variants of countdown, darts (and onscreen versions of it).

22. Dice Board games are great! Beetle Very simple dice game single die
Simple dice game with a pair of dice
Shut the box
Snake eyes/ pig

23. Times Tables Up to 12x12 Chant
Know the facts – multiplication and division

24. How to learn tables Chant it
Chant it differently! Backwards, division, say the facts the other way (4 ones are 4, 4 twos are 8, etc.) only say it if.. ,etc
Make cards – multiplication fact on one side, answer and division fact on the other
Computer games and apps
Play buzz and fizzbuzz
Concentrate on the tricky facts

25. Tricky tables facts

26. Number bonds, addition and subtraction
The bonds of a number are the pairs of numbers that add to make it. For example the bonds of 5 are 0+5, 1+4, 2+3
Children need to know both the addition and subtraction facts, e.g. 2+3=5 but also 5-3=2
Bonds of 10 are particularly important
As they move up through school children need
Bonds of each whole number to 20
Bonds of 100
Pairs of fractions or decimals that total 1

27. Practising bonds
Online games and apps that involve number bonds, addition or subtraction
Floppy fingers
Dice (again) - try more dice