Maths

The photographs celebrate our strong progress in developing our place value and four operation skills.

Numbers within our day

Nursery have been developing our understanding of matching - looking at size, colour and pattern on welly boots to pair them. We have used comparison language related to size "That boot is big and that boot is smaller so they don't match". We have been exploring a number each week, looking at different ways it can be represented: digit, word, sign, and looking for our number of the week in the environment: building it with cubes, finding it on puzzle pieces and even on our fingers. We continue to subitise daily up to 6, discuss the days of the week, date and month every morning, as well as counting the number of children in our class each day!

Using Dienes

Year 2 have been using a lot of Dienes in their Place Value understanding of numbers to 100. They have been using their knowledge of number bonds to 10 in order to see the pattern of their number bonds to 100. They have been looking at different addictive structures of 2 digit by 2 digit numbers.

Manipulatives in Year 3 #Barvember

In Year 3, we have been using dienes, counters and number lines to learn our place value to 1000’s. We have explored our additive structures with the use of Rek ‘n recks (to support number bonds to 10) and the other manipulatives in order to add/ subtract 1’s, 10’s and 100’s - including crossing multiples of 10 and 100. We have investigated different part-part-part- whole structures and the mathematical terms used eg. Addends and Sum, to vocalize our understanding of the cherry model, number lines bar models - linking our learning to the Barvember challenge.

Additive structures

In Year 5, we have been recapping Place Value, including comparing, ordering and rounding numbers to 10,000. We have progressed onto millions and introduced negative numbers and created a ‘how to’ guide. From here, we have explored additive structures consolidating our understanding of the inverse. We have proven our understanding through multi-step problems.