Welcome to EPJS’ maths workshop

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1 Welcome to EPJS’ maths workshop
Maths mastery Calculation policy and methods Helping your children at home Homework

2 Maths at EPJS New National Curriculum focuses on: Fluency: Accuracy
Efficiency Flexibility Reasoning Problem Solving ‘It is better to have 5 ways of answering one question than one way of answering 5 questions!’ – Singapore Maths Mastery school – been successful

3 Mastery at EPJS What is it? Why are we teaching his way? examples

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14 Concrete Pictorial Abstract 3 + 1 = 4
Concrete or pictorial representations support students to understand abstract concepts The concrete, pictorial, abstract approach is a progressive teaching strategy to ensure that children’s learning and understanding is deep. Therefore, they can apply this to different contexts and situations. Concrete refers to the physical resources and objects which children may use to investigate with, identify patters with and reason with others, to reach possible answers / solutions. Once children are secure with using concrete material to understand an idea they progress to representing the model through pictures and diagrams. The final stage of children’s understanding is for them to represent the model using numbers and symbols. This is the abstract part of this approach. In the example above, children are investigating addition of two digits. They begin using multilink cubes, where the two digits are represented by different colours. They explore what the digit looks like using the resources and the meaning of addition. They then progress to the pictorial representations. Here you can see two models. The first is a part part whole model and the second is the bar model (which we will come to later). Finally, the children are able to use numbers to represent their investigation. Through this deep understanding, children will be able to investigate the inverse and explore the subtraction.

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17 5 = 2 5 Practical activity 5 3 5

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21 RISING STARS How often? Why? Data

22 CALCULATION POLICIES ADDITION: ( ) + ( ) = 8971

23 CALCULATION POLICIES SUBTRACTION: ( ) - (50-22) = 400

24 CALCULATION POLICIES MULTIPLICATION:

25 CALCULATION POLICIES DIVISION:

26 Top tips for parents and families:
Be positive about maths. Don't say things like "I can’t do maths" or "I hated maths at school"; your child might start to think like that themselves. Praise your child for effort rather than talent - this shows them that by working hard they can always improve.

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28 How can you help with your child’s maths everyday?
Talk about time. For example, get them to work out what time you need to leave the house to get to school on time. Cooking. Measure ingredients and set the timer together. Get them to work out how much more food will you need if extra people are coming for dinner. Talk about the shape and size of objects. Look online for interesting facts, like tallest and shortest people, or biggest and smallest buildings etc. When you are sharing food like pizza or cake, ask your child to help you share it equally between the number of people eating. Solve maths problems at home. For example, ask them how many apples to buy at the shop and why, or how long will it take you to get to Gran's house if you go to the library on the way. Collect information and create a tally chart, for example to find out the family’s favourite animal or fruit etc. Make patterns with objects, colouring pencils, paint or Play-Doh, and build structures with Lego or boxes.

29 Talk about numbers in sport
Talk about numbers in sport. How many points does your team need to avoid relegation? How many goals/tries/conversions/points/runs has your team scored this season? Talk about proportions when you make a cup of tea or squash as them how much milk or how much water they're using. Talk about the shape and size of objects. Use the internet to find interesting facts like tallest and shortest people, or biggest and smallest buildings etc. Talk about time. For example get them to work out what time you need to leave the house to get to school on time. Look for maths on TV, newspapers, magazines and talk about it together. Use newspapers. Talk to your child about percentages in special offers, the probability in the weather reports, the length of TV shows and compare the salaries in the jobs section. Solve maths problems at home. For example 'we have 3 pizzas cut into quarters, if we eat 10 quarters, how many will be left?’ Talk about shape, size and quantity. Use the internet to find interesting size facts like most and least populated cities, highest mountains or deepest valleys etc.

30 Directions. When travelling somewhere familiar, ask your child to give you directions and timings, then test their directions out. If they get something wrong, ask them to think of the best way to get back to where you want to go. Look for patterns and symmetry when out and about. Sport. Sports are the perfect chance to think about speed, scores, time and angles. Get competitive; try out different angles to score from, ask them how many star jumps can they do in a minute. Explore the local area. Ask them to guess how many people live in your town, how far is the nearest airport is etc. Ask for the reasons behind their answer and check the answers online. Estimation. For example ask them to think about how they can estimate how many bricks were used to build a local landmark. Hobbies. Ask them to talk about the maths they have come across in the favourite hobby. Journeys. Ask them questions like how many miles or kilometres have we travelled, how many are left and what time should we get to our destination. Play with cards. Take 2 cards and add the numbers together, the player with the highest number wins. Try it with subtraction, multiplication, and division too. Get them to design a tree house, clothes or car or whatever they're interested in. Ask them to work out the right measurements. Play board games like Connect 4, Jenga, Monopoly, Scrabble, Dominos

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33 ANY QUESTIONS?