How to Help Your Child with Maths and English

INSPIRE 3HF

This morning?

“They do it all differently these days!”

Bridging the gap

They are teaching you this morning!

What is important?

• A strong foundation in the basics– keep returning to the fundamentals– Your child should not just be familiar

with the basics, but fluent– Don’t be afraid to do the old drills and

skills

Anything else important?

• Multiplication tables 2x 5x 10x 3x 4x (all need to be known by the end of year 4)

• Rapid and accurate addition and subtraction

• Telling the time, analogue and digital

• Drip, drip, drip….

Anything else important?

• A sound understanding of place value is very important

Not millions Th H T U . 1/10 1/100

So what are the basics?

• Addition• Subtraction• Multiplication• Division• Problem solving

Some practical ideas…Times tables in the car…drill and quickfire

Real life, Do I have enough money?What change should I get?Which is the best value?

What time will it be in 25 minutes?

Cooking, weighing, measuring.Do I have enough rice to make this dish?

What methods do we use?

•Mental first!• To equip children for real life, their mental

maths skills are the most important.

• Speeding up the accuracy and fluency of mental methods will help with written methods later.

What methods do we use?

• Mental strategies (rounding to the nearest 10, known number facts to help with larger numbers)

• Bonds to 10 and 100

• Partitioning 24 + 43 = 20 + 40 = 60 4 + 3 = 7 60 + 7 = 67

What methods do we use?

Your turn….• Play I say, you say with your bonds to 10, then 100.

then….Solve these calculations by partitioning…• 54 + 32 = • 63 + 21 =• 47 + 26 =• If you finish early, you can practice some of your

own.

What methods do we use?

• But they will soon use more written methods in their Mathematics– Using a variety of methods– Building towards a standard method

– They often follow the path from an expanded method to a shorter method and finally a compact

method

Number Line Subtraction

• Using addition and rounding to help us subtract

• 78 – 42 =

42 78

Subtraction

• Use the number line method and have a go…

• 85 – 36 =

36 85• 65 – 22 =

22 65

Preparing for Multiplication

• Children must know their tables - fluently

• ? X 5 = 15• 3 x ? = 15• 3 x 5 = ?

• Mad Minutes….your turn!

Division in KS2• Tables! Tables! Tables! - The inverse operation

• How to rally robin

Your turn: try it with 2, 5 and 10 x tables.

What’s the Time?• There is never enough of it………

• Being confident in reading the time on analogue and digital clocks.

• Your turn….Have a go at telling the time on the clock faces

Problems in Time

• Word problems involving time – transferring the skills

• Your turn…• Harry Hill starts at 6.45 and lasts for 25

minutes. X Factor is on for 30 minutes. What time does X Factor finish?

Read, read, read

• It is important to read a range of texts, fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, poems etc.

• Reading the words is no longer enough….understanding is key to learning, you need to discuss what is read.

• 3 times a week, fill in reading record.• Reading feeds the writing

Spelling

• LCWC

• Wordsearches, mnemonics, spelling games

Presentation of workHandwriting and use of the ruler!

Thank you for coming!• School website – useful links to look at… • This presentation will shortly be available on our

classblog…• A more comprehensive version is available on the

other class blogs if you would like some tips for the future!

• Please come to see us with any questions