As it’s now well into the long summer holiday this week I will concentrate on a few more relaxing home maths pages. Going to the quiet Dorset countryside for a couple of days so posting Monday’s today. I have a maths word search for young children, the first in our collection of ‘easy peasy’ puzzles! All the words are part of the expected vocabulary for Y1 children to do with measurement of length.
They include: long, short, tall, thick, thin, high, low wide and narrow. The words are all to be found across or down the wordsearch, no diagonals and nothing spelt backwards. Good practice in using the language of measurement. Why not sit down with your child whilst they find the words and talk about the meanings and when you would use them. You can make comparisons by using longer, shorter, etc.
Maths puzzles: Word search length
Maths word search: length
Tables should be well and truly known by now. Unfortunately this is very often not the case. Children need constant reinforcement and practice with their tables. Square numbers are also meant to be known, such as the square of 11. Knowledge of tables will help with most of these but not the larger squares. It is always a good idea to look at a tables square and note the way the square numbers take a diagonal path across the table.