Archives for "December, 2007"

Children need to spend time handling 3-D shapes and should be familiar with the terms ‘edge’, ‘face’ and ‘vertex’ (plural: ‘vertices’) when applied to 3-D shapes.

In year 3 children will continue to make shapes and patterns; these becoming more complex and more accurate. Drawing round shapes such as triangles, rectangles and hexagons and then cutting them out to make repeated patterns should be encouraged. When describing the patterns created, children should be encouraged to name the shapes. They should become [...]

A pinboard is very useful for exploring all the possible four and five sided shapes.

There are four 2-D shapes which children should become familiar with in Year 1. These are circle, rectangle, square and triangle.

Plenty of opportunity with these two free maths worksheets to consolidate understanding of subtraction and the use of positive and negative numbers. By year 6 children should find these pretty straightforward although some children do struggle with the concept of a negative number and will always take the smaller number from the larger number even [...]