Maths is vital in everyday life as it encourages early thinking skills, logical reasoning, and the ability to think in abstract ways. At the earliest stages of development, where thinking centres around concrete situations and events, pupils strive to make sense of experiences and sensations that involve changes in shape, pattern, quantity, space and time. Such experiences help them master their approach to problem situations flexibly, to move from random to trial and improvement responses, and on to anticipate and predict.
At St. Joseph’s RC Primary School, Maths is focused on providing powerful ways of reasoning, exploring, investigating, and understanding the world. The potential to apply the skills of making comparisons, identifying differences, investigating relationships, and establishing connections reflects the importance of the subject across the curriculum during the school years. Pupils are taught in a rigorous and systemic structure that develops the understanding of the concrete, pictorial and abstract steps of mathematical areas to gain mastery for maths. Increasingly, pupils will plan, reflect, and come to recognise and evaluate alternative solutions. In this way, mathematical skills and understanding build on the earliest perceptual and cognitive learning. Sensory maths is also introduced across the school to support practical learners.
Useful Websites
Useful websites/apps to use at home
EYFS and KS1
www.ictgames.co.uk
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years – The ‘Hit The Button’ games are
really good for recall of number facts
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and- activities/#maths-5-7
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8
https://keystagefun.co.uk/ – The Squeebles App is excellent for timestables
https://www.arcademics.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/index.shtml
Numbertime videos (via YouTube)
KS2
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years – The ‘Hit The Button’ games are really good for recall of number facts
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and- activities/#maths-9-11
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/z826n39 https://keystagefun.co.uk/ – The Squeebles App is excellent for timestables https://www.arcademics.com/
http://www.timestables.me.uk/ http://amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html
All children also have their log in for a Times Table Rockstars that they should be using regularly to develop their times table knowledge.
Home Learning
During School closure, remember to keeps your skills sharp in Mathematics!
To support with this Gareth Metcalfe from iseemaths.com will be broadcasting daily maths lessons for KS2 from 9am.
Please click the link for more information
http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
White Rose Maths are also offering 5 free maths lesson per week to support your learning. This is broken down for each year group.
Please click the link for more information
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Sumdog Years 2-6
Children can sign up for a free Sumdog account. When they log in they have six maths games to chose from. These games will allow children to develop the essential skills they need to work on in Maths.
