Maths help for parents of children aged 5 to 11
maths review of jojo in numberland
Jojo In Numberland – Multiplication & Division
Help! Jojo has lost Bobbin and he needs to get him back from the evil kidnapper, Shiver!
Great idea, great animations and incredibly loud sound! Correct answers gain rewards. Rewards lead to more fun surprises.
rounding numbers
Two worksheets here for rounding larger numbers, either to the nearest 1 000 or the nearest 10 000. Being able to round easily is important when estimating an answer and before using a calculator to ensure that the answer displayed on the screen is sensible.
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NRICH maths club Celebrating ten years online this site started well and has continued to grow, now claiming to be the largest maths site online. It includes a huge variety of free resources.
A real winner, especially if you have a bright child who enjoys investigating maths for the fun of it. Activities include puzzles, problem solving, investigations and games to play against the computer. A wide range of topics are included but the best way to get started is to look at this month’s edition and try some activities. For this June the main theme is angles and triangles, with trig for older pupils.
reading large numbers
When looking at a large number think of it as blocks of three, starting on the right. Each block of three is hundreds, tens and units.
The first block is hundreds, tens and units (of ones or units).
The second block is hundreds, tens and units of thousands.
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Reading four digit numbers
Reading four digit numbers can be tricky. Understanding of place value is vital – realising that each digit becomes ten times bigger when it moves one place to the left. We will return to this many times and in more detail. To begin, this worksheet shows the column names to help with reading the numbers.
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Scrap tests!
The General Teaching Council has suggested that the dreaded SATs at 7 and 11 should be ditched. They say that the tests fail to improve standards and just add stress to pupils.
Counting larger numbers
Children seldom get a chance to count a larger number of objects, say between 30 and 60. By seeing and counting this many they become more able to estimate larger numbers and give rough approximations, rather than just give wild guesses.
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Counting on and back free resource
This is the very first of many free worksheets which will be available via this blog. We have exclusive rights to the worksheets which will soon be available as a small part of the mathsgogogo.co.uk site – opening later this summer.
These first four worksheets are aimed at year 1 and year 2 children aged about 4 to 6 years old. They are in pdf format and can be downloaded and printed for home use.
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Remember the class topic – it’s making a comeback. Some of you may remember your days in primary school and still have a project, or topic, that you did hidden away in the loft. Topics all but disappeared with the onset of the National Curriculum in 1988 and subject based teaching being strongly recommended in reports in the 1990s. But the Times Educational Supplement reports today that the topic has made a comeback.
Folens: maths for the less able
Folens: Maths for the less able
This series of four files is aimed at children between 7 and 11 who don’t find maths easy. Generally, they address the needs of children who are about two years below the average for their age group and they do this quite well.
The packs consist of lesson plans for two lessons a week, resource sheets, follow up ideas and printable worksheets. The photocopiable pages do look rather dull, but that might be due to an attempt to take away age related graphics – not a bad idea.
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