Try to make mathematics at home as much fun as possible – games, puzzles and jigsaws are a great way to start. It’s also important to show how we use mathematics skills in our everyday lives and to involve your child in this.

Identifying problems and solving them can also help your child develop mathematics skills. If you see him or her puzzling over something, talk about the problem and try to work out the solution together.

Don’t shy away from mathematics if you didn’t like it at school. Try to find new ways to enjoy the subject with your child.

Tips for helping your child to enjoy mathematics:

  • Point out the different shapes to be found around your home.
  • Take your child shopping and talk about the quantities of anything you buy.
  • Let your child handle money and work out how much things cost.
  • Look together for numbers on street signs and car registration plates
  • Sing multiplication tables up to 12 x 12
  • Test each other on different ways to add or subtract to reach any number up to 20
  • Get cooking! Using scales and a cook book to measure ingredients for a cake are great maths skills.

As a school we follow White Rose Maths. The White Rose schemes of learning are designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning, as well as to support the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum.

The White Rose schemes have number at the heart and a lot of time is spent reinforcing number to build competency. It also provides opportunities to build reasoning and problem solving into each lesson.

White Rose believes that all children, who are introduced to a concept, should have the opportunity to build on their abilities by following a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach-

Concrete – children should have the opportunity to use concrete objects to help them understand what they are doing.

Pictorial – alongside this children should use pictorial representations. These representations can then be used to help reason and solve problems.

Abstract – both concrete and pictorial representations should support children’s understanding of abstract methods.

Maths Wesbites

Cool Maths http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

NRich http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage

ICT games  http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html