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                                                                        Mathematics 

Over the past 6 weeks, our teachers have been implementing WARM-UPs within their Mathematics lessons to build on number and content skills. 

A warm-up provides students with the opportunity to explore Mathematical concepts while learning, applying, extending, and refining their own range of understandings. 

Our warm-ups are quick and purposeful activities that allow all students to engage at their own level of understanding. These warm-ups could be games, times table focus, sticky note questions, fast recall, mental maths and much more…

Number is a huge element within Mathematics and 3 of our 5 school days focus primarily on developing your child's number skills and strategies. 

Here are some fun activities you can do at home to help your child master the concept of NUMBER:

Kindergarten: 

• Number identification - How many dots are there?
• Counting- let's start at 1 and  count forward to 10, 20 or 30                                                                    - let's start at 10, 20 or 30 and count backwards to 1

Year 1/2:

• Number before and after- What is the number before 12, 37, 82, 101                                                                               - What is the number after 19, 24, 49, 67, 99, 110
• Counting: - Start counting forwards from 62 through till 81                                                                       - Starting at 17 let's count forwards by 10’s (17,27…...87)

Year 3/4:

• Start counting from 120 and count backwards by 10’s
• Starting at 132 count forwards by 10’s to 212
• I can make 12 by multiplying 2 and 6. What are two more numbers that I can multiply to equal 12?

Year 5/6:

• Start counting from 176 and count backwards by 10’s
• Start counting from 1023 and count forwards from 10’s till 1113
• ( 4, 9, 0, 2) using these 4 numbers can you make the largest number, second largest number, smallest number and second smallest number)

One of the MOST important Mathematical skills you can do with your children at home to prepare them for their mathematical learning throughout their schooling life is... TIMES TABLES practice.

• Play times tables songs in the car- LINK TO SONG
• Hang a times tables chart
• Skip counting starting at a certain number for example, 3… (3,6,9…)
• Ask your children random times tables facts
• Play games (roll two dice and have them multiply them together)

Here are some great activities Infants have been doing within the classroom over the past few weeks. 

Kindergarten: Students were learning to organise objects into simple data displays, understand, and describe the displays. Students spent time independently grouping and sorting dinosaur toys to then count and see the most common/popular toy. 

Year 1 and 2: Students were learning to make, describe and record number patterns. For this Warm-up Mrs Bartholomew provided students with the choice of unifix cubes, counters, or sticks. They then had to create patterns to demonstrate their understanding of what a pattern could be and explain it to the teachers. This allowed Mrs Bartholomew to plan their learning directions accurately for each need within the classroom. A great example of individualised learning for your students needs and where they are within their mathematical understanding of Patterns.