Maths help for parents of children aged 5 to 11

Great new stuff at Primary Resources, including partitioning numbers, measuring length and Venn diagrams. All in Word format.

These are about as hard as you get working in your head and jottings on paper may be needed to do them. Look back at earlier year groups to see the different strategies that can be used. The strategies are the same but the numbers are bigger.

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Sparklebox Looking for some bright and lively graphics to print out and don’t mind using your colour printer.

Sparklebox provides teaching resources ( but no reason why parents can’t use them) for a whole range of subjects, including maths. (more…)

A report from the Rowntree Foundation suggests that white, working class boys are under achieving. When other factors such as school meals and neighbourhood are taken into account white boys are doing worse than their black, Afro Caribbean or Banglideshi counterparts.

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Even more challenging: to add three larger numbers in your head. There are many different ways of going about these. Don’t forget the following tips, depending on the type of numbers involved:

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When looking at adding three small numbers there are several strategies which can be employed. Usually it is better to start with the largest number, rather than the first number.

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There is no end in sight for those bullies. Children with learning difficulties are twice as likely to face bullies as other children according to a report by Richard Garner in the Independent Online Education Channel.

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Two worksheets to help children with addition of two 2-digit numbers. Once knowledge of addition of single digits is secure this can be applied to 2-digit numbers, starting with adding teens.

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In year 2 children will continue to develop their understanding of addition, beginning to work with larger numbers, but keep them below 100. Indeed, quite a lot of children will not be ready for dealing with 2-digit numbers. Don’t introduce larger numbers until they are really confident with single digit addition.

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Primary Resources Gareth Pitchford

Free maths stuff for 5 to 11 year olds produced in Word, pdf, Powerpoint and Flash! Can’t be bad!!

Primary resources is another of those UK sites which has been around a long time (9 years), increasing its content on a regular basis. Designed for teachers, it aims to develop a resource bank for teachers contributing their own ideas - in return everyone gets free access to the material. Parents are more than welcome to use the material.

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