Maths Made Easy - Reasoning & Calculating With Number and Shape - Spring Term

Welcome to my ongoing Maths class, based on the UK Year 3/ 4 curriculum taught to develop a deep understanding of number and shape. Good maths comes from good experiential and pictorial understanding, and a sense of how it will be used in real life situations. THIS IS NOT ROTE LEARNING!

My style of teaching and learning is collaborative and based on reasoning. I use the concrete, pictorial, abstract approach to maths teaching and a highly visual approach. Children will learn through engaging taught demos, investigation and collaborative discussion. Each lesson will have materials posted to the classroom beforehand, which should be printed for the children to use throughout the lesson to get the most from each session.

Throughout the Summer Term we will be covering lots of areas of maths. There's loads of new ideas, mental maths, formal methods, tips and tricks and a good dose of number sense. If you take the whole ongoing course (over 1 year: Autumn, Spring, Summer: see other class listings), you will find that ideas are revisited and build as we progress. You are equally welcome to join us at any part during the course as each lesson is differentiated across ability levels and works independently of other lessons.

Each session will be delivered with a slide presentation and children will have plenty of opportunities to have a go, share ideas, play games, use chat, test theories and write on the screen. External websites will sometimes be used to demonstrate, such as interactive thermometers, random number generators and fraction walls. 

Each session will have one short piece of homework where children can test their skills and consolidate their learning.

Children should have a good basic knowledge of maths, including knowing 2, 5 and 10 times tables (maybe more), number bonds to ten and twenty and knowing the names of 2D shapes. If they have encountered Place Value using ones (units), tens and hundreds then that's all the better!

Topics covered:
6th September 2021
Place Value to 1000
----Counting in Sequences of 100 and 50
----Recognising patterns in number sequences

13th September 2021
Calculating addition and subtraction:
----Adding up to 3 digits to 3 digits with and without regrouping (exchanging)

20th September 2021
Calculating addition and subtraction:
----Subtracting up to 3 digits from 3 digits, with and without regrouping (exchanging)
----Using a bar model to solve problems

27th September 2021
Times tables tips and tricks for learning
----3 and 6 times tables
----2, 4 and 8 times tables

4th October 2021
Multiplying and dividing
----Multiplying by 10
----Methods for multiplying 1 digit by 2 digit

11th October 2021
----Methods for division (sharing, grouping, long division)
----Finding relationships between multiplication and division
----Solving word problems with multiplication and multiplication

18th October 2021
Fractions
----counting in tenths
----recognising fractions
----adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator

25th October NO LESSONS

1st November 2021
----finding equivalent fractions on a number line
----finding the simplest fraction using visual representations
----comparing fractions with different denominators
----finding a fraction of a whole number

8th November 2021
Decimals, reading and writing to tenths and hundredths

15th November 2021
Measurements
----conversion of units of length (cm, m and km)
----conversion of mass (g, kg)

22nd November 2021
Measurements
----measuring volume (ml, l)
----money, using £, $ and €

29th November 2021
Measurements
----telling the time using analogue and digital methods
Statistics
----constructing and reading bar charts and pie charts

6th December 2021
Geometry
----identifying and making angles (acute, right angle, obtuse)
----relationship of number of angles and number of sides in a shape
----making turns using angle vocabulary

13th December 2021
----identifying perpendicular and parallel lines
----describe and draw 2D shapes
----describe and draw 3D shapes

WINTER BREAK

If you feel that your child has an understanding of all of these maths topics, please take a look at my Maths for Real Life course, which addresses the next stage in maths learning.