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MATHS - What your child is learning at school and how you can support.
The BULLETIN this week aims to share the learning experiences your child has been engaged in, to develop their mathematical knowledge, skills and understanding. Your child has been learning about maths since birth and school and home play a role in continuing to support this learning.
As a school we have been committed to helping parents support their child’s mathematical learning. Zaim, our Maths Learning Specialist, has released a video explaining what maths looks like and sounds like in our school. Please turn sound on and click through each slide.
Evidence shows that the learning of maths is strongest when children can link mathematical skills and concepts to real world situations. Mathematics at Armadale PS involves developing all learners’ capacity to be confident, creative, reflective, investigative and value making mistakes and to question as a significant aspect of learning.
A snapshot into the mathematical concepts we are currently exploring at school:
Preps: Quantifying number: Children have been exploring different counting strategies and testing the efficiency of each strategy.
Year 1: Additive Thinking: Children have been exploring different strategies to add and developing strategies to solve worded problems.
Year 2: Additive Thinking. Children have been practising strategies to add and subtract 3- and 4-digit numbers.
Year 3/4: Quantifying number: Children have been developing their knowledge of place value. They have been reading and writing 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers.
Year 5/6: Additive Thinking: Children have been refining their adding and subtracting strategies and have been applying their place value knowledge to practice using the algorithm (vertical addition and vertical subtraction) to solve addition and subtraction problems.
If you’re concerned about your child’s maths skills, it might help to know that sometimes children need to practise the same maths concept many times and in different ways before it starts to make sense. This can take time.
The BULLETIN offers you guidance in how you can support your child further. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher.
Rochelle Cukier and Connie Apostolos
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