October, 2008 | Maths Blog

Maths vocabulary for year 1 (Position and instructions)

Year 1 maths vocabulary list from mathsblog.co.uk

The final list of vocabulary that children in year 1 are expected to become familiar with is to do with position and general instructions. Earlier sets of words can be found in the reception worksheet section of the site.
Words to do with position are:
underneath              centre                     journey
whole turn          half turn
There are also a number of instructions that children are expected to be familiar with, including:
listen     remember     point to     arrange     rearrange
separate     carry on     choose     collect     describe
explain     record     complete     finish

(Taken from Mathematical Vocabulary Book DfEE)

The attached pdf has this vocabulary written large to cut out and use as flash cards/display etc.

Maths vocabulary for Year 1 (Position and instructions)

Maths worksheets: 3 times table

3 x table maths worksheets from mathsblog.co.uk

The 3 times table is one of the harder tables to learn – the pattern of even numbers found in the two times table is not there: but answers do alternate between odd and even. It is usually learned after the twos, tens and fives.
A good way of checking if an answer is correct is to see if the digits add up to 3, 6 or 9. eg 24: 2 + 4 = 6
Remember the danger is that some children are taught that they only need to count up the answers: 3, 6, 9, 12 etc. However, this is not very helpful if a child needs to know what 3 x 9 is; they do not want to have to go through the whole counting up in threes 9 times to get the answer. The whole idea of tables is that they are learnt, off by heart. To do this it is essential to say them out loud:

One times three is three
two times three is six
three times three is nine
four times three is twelve
five times three is fifteen
six times three is eighteen
seven times three is twenty one
eight times three is twenty four
nine times three is twenty seven
ten times three is thirty
Below are two worksheets for the three times table. A good way to do these is to time them to see how long your child takes.

3x table ( 1 and 2)

Maths vocabulary Year 1 (measures and shape)

Maths vocabulary from mathsblog.co.uk

Continuing with the list of vocabulary that children in year 1 are expected to become familiar with is this set on measures and shape. Much of this is to do with time. Earlier sets of words can be found in the reception worksheet section of the site.

Words to do with measures and shape:

roughly                  metre            ruler                  metre stick
seasons        spring         summer          autumn         winter
weekend              month                year             midnight
fast faster fastest
half past          how long ago?          how long will it be to…?
how often?
always         never        often       sometimes       usually
once           twice
point          pointed
cuboid       cylinder

(Taken from Mathematical Vocabulary Book DfEE)

The attached pdf has this vocabulary written large so that they can be cut out and use as flash cards/display etc.

Maths vocabulary year 1 (measures and shape)

Maths worksheet: 2 times table

2x table maths worksheets from mathsblog.co.uk

The 2 times table is usually the first that is learnt by children, usually after a lot of practice with doubling small numbers. There is a danger when only using the two times table that children think of multiplying only as ‘timesing by 2’ or doubling.
Another danger is that some children are taught that they only need to count up the answers: 2, 4, 6, 8 etc. However, this is not very helpful if a child needs to know what 2 x 9 is; they do not want to have to go through the whole counting up in twos 9 times to get the answer. The whole idea of tables is that they are learnt, off by heart. To do this it is essential to say them out loud: Continue reading “Maths worksheet: 2 times table”

Free Y4 maths worksheet: number grid in tens

In order for children to be really confident with handling numbers it is very important that they have a great deal of practice in counting forwards and backwards.

To re-inforce place value counting on and back in ones, tens, hundreds and thousands is especially worthwhile.

This might appear to be easay, but problems do arrive when crossing the next hundred or thousand. A number line or grid is very useful in helping with this.

Number grid in tens

Free maths worksheet: counting and matching

Free maths worksheet from urbrainy.com

Thanks to URBrainy.com for this worksheet. They specialise in early years maths and have some great free resources. This is a counting and matching page. Matching equal numbers of things is an important step for young children and one which should be encouraged as often as possible. Worksheets are only one way of doing this; there are plenty of opportunities in the home for matching eg laying the table with knives and forks, spoons with bowls etc.

Counting and matching dogs and kennels p1

World Maths Day

World Maths Day 2009 info from mathsblog.co.uk
World Maths Day was a huge success last year, with over one million students from over 150 countries taking part. Altogether 182 455 169 questions were correctly answered. Wow!
Whingate Primary School was the top UK school with 170 139 correct answers. Well done to them! You only need to see how their maths SAT scores have risen over the past few years to know what an effect this event can have!
There is nothing else in the world quite like this and it can act as a great stimulus for children to improve their mental arithmetic. The students play against each other at mental arithmetic games in real-time across the globe. Each correct answer gains one point.
Next year’s event will take place on Wednesday, 4th March 2009 and schools will be able to register in February 2009. This might seem a long time away but if schools are going to enter it might well be worth thinking about it now, make sure the date is kept free and start practising that mental arithmetic!
If you are a parent with a child who loves quick responses to mental arithmetic why not go to your school and suggest they enter? It costs nothing!

For more info go to worldmathsday

Multiplying 2-digits by 2: moving towards standard written methods

Free maths worksheet from mathsblog.co.uk

Here is a worksheet which looks at multiplying a 2-digit number by 2. It uses a method taught in school prior to children using the standard written method, with which you are probably familiar.

This method of multiplication encourages understanding of the process of multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number. The questions on this page would not normally be completed using written methods: mental methods should suffice. It would be expected that children could do these ‘in their heads’ from a knowledge of doubling. However, carrying out the calculation with numbers that they are familiar with should help with understanding the method. Continue reading “Multiplying 2-digits by 2: moving towards standard written methods”

U R Brainy launches full maths worksheets site

After a couple of months in beta mode urbrainy.com has fully launched today. Aimed at parents of children in their early years it provides a whole host of colourful maths worksheets. Plenty are free but if you want the full 1000 + then there is a subscription of £10.00 for a year – pretty good value, I think, and the site is nice and bright.

They have let me publish some of these maths worksheets recently and I will hope to do so again in the future. Here is a typical sample of four pages about ordering numbers.

Order 3 small numbers

News: The Story of Maths BBC 4

If you are interested in how mathematics has come about and all the wonderful developments in science that have come from maths, then this is the series for you.

Starting on Monday 6th October at 9.00pm on BBC 4 it takes a journey through the past and around the world, to Egypt, China, India, Russia, The Middle East and more.

It shows how maths was crucial to the success of all the great civilisations. After all, without maths there would be no time keeping, no money, no cars, no planes, no electricity and indeed you would not be able to read this on a computer screen.

It brings us right up to today, with examples such as prime numbers, knowledge of which until recently was of little practical use, but now nearly all our security pin numbers etc are based on prime numbers.

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford leads us on our journey and there are a number of supporting interactive games etc at Open2.net to go with the series.