Nationally, Y3, Y4 and Y5 are currently working on the new
curriculum. Year 6 will be assessed on old curriculum material at
the end of academic year and begin the new curriculum in
September 2015.
Children are working towards age-related expectations which
they follow through their learning journeys on our maths
spiders (please feel free to see them on our learning walls when
you are next in school). They track their learning using SMIRF
(Space Mission Instant Recall Facts) log books for mental maths.
Mental maths progress is the key to developing an
understanding of place value and the number system to support
calculations, as well as learning strategies, to make connections
between multiplication and division with fractions, decimals,
percentages and ratio.
National expectations in times tables are as follows:
End of Year 2: To know by heart all x and ÷ facts for 2,5 and 10x
tables up to x12.
End of Year 3: To know by heart all x and ÷ facts for 3,4 and 6 x
tables up to x12.
End of Year 4: To know by heart all x and ÷ facts for 7,8,9,11,
and 12 x tables up to x 12.
Year 5 and Year 6: To use knowledge of place value and x facts
to 12 x 12 to derive x and ÷ facts involving decimals….0.6 x
4=2.4.
Times tables learning is included as part of our learning using
the SMIRFS.
Our teachers will allocate challenges for children to practice
their SMIRFS using our online pupil world, abacus.
You can access abacus on a desktop computer, laptop or tablet.
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?v=pupil&c=0
Your child should know their login and password, which can be
found in their reading homework diary.
Our school code is ttva.
Maths homework:
Children have maths homework on
a Friday to be returned to school
on the following Monday. This is to
practice all areas of maths on a
weekly basis. We also have weekly mental maths tests in school
which inform teachers to address the next steps in your child’s
learning.
Teachers will use evidence provided by abacus (through the
online reporting system) to monitor progress in mental maths
which will enable them to test children’s knowledge through
timed challenges.
If you have any questions about Maths at Moorside, or would
like more information about the strategies and methods taught
in school, please contact your child’s class teacher or Miss
Russell.
Other useful maths websites:
http://www.mad4maths.com/parents/links/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=20
http://www.mathszone.co.uk/
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/