Maths
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In Hedgehogs we love maths! We start each day with an arithmetic task where we practice key number skills such as times tables facts or number bonds. This helps us to develop our confidence, pace and fluency. We also enjoy lots of songs and rhymes during the day to help us embed our recall of these key facts.
In our main maths lesson each day we use a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to learning.
Concrete is the “doing” stage. During this stage, we use concrete objects to model problems, this brings concepts to life by allowing children to experience and handle physical (concrete) objects. For example, if a problem involves adding pieces of fruit, children can first handle actual fruit. From there, they can progress to handling abstract counters or cubes which represent the fruit.
Pictorial is the “seeing” stage. Here, visual representations of concrete objects are used to model problems, abstract pictures, diagrams or models are used to represent the objects from the problem.
Abstract is the “symbolic” stage, where children use abstract symbols to model problems. Children are introduced to using only numbers, notation, and mathematical symbols (for example, +, –, x, /) to indicate addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
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Each daily lesson builds towards applying our skills to solving mathematical problems and reasoning about maths and as well as our daily maths lessons we enjoy a wide range of experiences and opportunities to apply our mathematical skill through other subjects and topics too.
What can you do at home to help your child with maths? Try and involve maths in day to day life: bake a cake, use scales and rulers to measure, pay for things in a shop using coins, tell the time, hunt for shapes and patterns in nature, sing number songs and rhymes and play games with dice or dominoes. Above all, make maths at home fun and interactive. You can find further suggestions via the link below and also in the attached booklets.
Help your child be epic at maths - CBeebies - BBC
Below are some really useful knowledge organsiers for all the maths concepts we teach, our calculations policy and some videos which provide valuable support for parents.
