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Times Tables Rockstars!

All year groups from Year 1 are using times tables rockstars to practice times tables appropriate to their year group. Teachers can set tasks and all children have time within class to play.

All pupils should have their username and login stuck in the front of their reading record book.

Other online games and resources can be found at the following

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.mathplayground.com/math-games.html

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular

https://www.mathgames.com/math-games.html

https://www.transum.org/Software/Game/

https://www.teachwire.net/news/maths-games-ks2/

HOW PARENTS CAN SUPPORT AT HOME

Working together with Parents and Carers

Highfield prides itself on the wonderful relationship we have with parents and carers. Working in partnership, we aim to provide challenging and memorable learning experiences. We are often asked by parents or carers if there are ways to support their child/ren at home. By reading the information below and using the links, you will hopefully find lots of helpful resources for support at home.

White Rose Parental Workbooks

The White Rose have produced free workbooks for parents and they cover all of the units of work for the academic year. The resources are organised by year group. All you have to do is following the link below, select the workbook that you require and then that can be downloaded and printed at home.

https://whiterosemaths.com/parent-workbooks/

Subject knowledge support for parents and carers

We hope that you are enjoying the maths work set by your child's teacher/s. Some of the work may be new to you or you may wish to refresh your knowledge. The NCETM website has created a help page full of videos and games for parents/carers to look at which you might find useful. You can access it here.  

Click on the link below for ways to help your child with Maths.

• Maths at Home 

Parental Workshop at Highfield

Thank you to those parents who attended the workshop. The PowerPoint shared can be accessed here. 

REAL LIFE MATHS

Maths is everywhere. There is no hiding from it. Maths will appear through every subject you study at school; from measuring quantities for a science experiment to identifying patterns and shapes in Art.

It doesn’t stop there though. Most days, we are all faced with problems in real life that require us to apply some form of maths to help solve them. Let's take a look!  

SHOPPING- Let’s start with one of the most obvious ways to demonstrate real life maths. With online shopping becoming ever more dominant, you may not do as much traditional shopping as you once did. However, the shopping experience can still help you bring real life maths to bear. Whether that is giving your child a budget to work from, use addition to work out totals, or subtraction to work out change the listis endless. You could also examine special offers e.g. percentages or fractions off or BOGOF to work out which deal is best!

CAR JOURNEYS- The age old 'Are we nearly there yet?' question can be a stuff of travelling nightmares however why not urn this round and ask children how many minutes are left? Use the Sat Nav to work out  the duration of the journey? Explore start and end times.  Children could convert times into seconds. Find out how many miles are left or how many kilometres etc 

A TRIP TO THE PARK - The local park is a treasure trove of real life maths. From the climbing frame to the trees, so many of the key features of a park lend themselves to practising maths.
Can your child work out all the angles present on the climbing frame? What angles are the most prominent? There is also a lot you can do with the area and perimeter of a park. Is it possible to estimate the perimeter? Is it possible to estimate the area?

HOUSE DIY - Building that new piece of furniture is an additional activity that will bring real life maths to the forefront of your child’s mind.
When building, there are plenty of opportunities to incorporate maths. Measuring the space you will need when all sections are laid out is a good exercise to begin with. Counting how many piece there are, or looking at the shapes and angles of the pieces of furniture. 

BAKING and COOKING - This is another great opportunity to apply your maths skills to a real life task. You will need to measure out all of the different ingredients using the most appropriate unit of measure.
If you are following a recipe, you may need to convert some of the measurements from pounds to kilograms, or pints to litres. Timing will be important, so you must be precise in working out the duration of cooking time needed for each step. When it is finally cooked, you might (unfortunately!) have to share it – how will you divide your cake up? Will it be split into equal fractions or will you keep a bigger piece for yourself?

White Rose Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

Super Movers 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers