Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan
Fun with Maths at Home
This booklet is aimed to help you develop your child’s mathematical ability and understanding at home.
At the start you will find the key objectives for your child’s year group. Key objectives are the main
objectives children are expected to understand and apply by the end of this year. It will also include
extension objectives, which they will be progressing towards.
Attached to this booklet you will find resources required for some of the activities mentioned. There
are addition and subtraction bonds, as well as multiplication and division tables. There will also be
some useful websites with games for children to play at home. We will provide maths games for your
children to play as homework every other week. These are age appropriate and will practise the skills
they will be taught throughout the year.
There are many ways you can help your child in maths. Adults use lots of maths at home in everyday
activities, such as cooking, shopping and DIY. We use a range of maths while spending money,
measuring, calculating and so on. You can talk with your child about things like:
• Which coins to use to pay for an ice-cream or drink
• How many oranges to buy and how much they weigh
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan
• Whether or not they are taller than their cousin / brother / sister
• Planning the meals for the week and making a shopping list
One of the best things you can do with your child is talk to them about mathematics. Sometimes it is
even more important to listen and let them explain what they are doing and why. Enjoy playing the
maths games that are sent home. Please feel free to write a comment in the provided homework
comment sheet in the homework folder about your child’s success and enjoyment of the game.
If your child is not good at working things out in their head at first, don’t worry! Be positive. Praise
them for what they can do and keep on working with them.
What do I need to help my child with maths?
• Plastic measuring jugs marked with litres (l) and millilitres (ml). (Keep baby’s old feeding bottles.)
• A tape measure marked in metres (m) and centimetres (cm).
• Kitchen scales that can weigh in kilograms (kg) and grams (g).
• Plastic measuring spoons (5ml, 10ml and so on).
• A watch with stopwatch or timer on it.
• Road maps and road atlases.
• Lots of games you can play together. E.g. Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Monopoly.
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan
Best of all, try to find lots of time to play and talk with your child.
Useful websites:
www.mathszone.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac
www.primarygames.co.uk
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html
In Year Two your child will be learning to…
• Count up to 100 objects by grouping them and counting in tens, fives or twos; explain what each digit
in a two-digit number represents, including numbers where 0 is a place holder; partition two-digit
numbers in different ways, including into multiples of 10 and 1
• Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to at least 10, all pairs with
totals to 20 and all pairs of multiples of 10 with totals up to 100
• Add or subtract mentally a one-digit number or a multiple of 10 to or from any two-digit number;
use practical and informal written methods to add and subtract two-digit numbers
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
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• Use the symbols +, -, ×, ÷ and = to record and interpret number sentences involving all four
operations; calculate the value of an unknown in a number sentence (e.g. ÷ 2 = 6, 30 - = 24)
• Visualise common 2-D shapes and 3-D solids; identify shapes from pictures of them in different
positions and orientations; sort, make and describe shapes, referring to their properties
• Use units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days) and know the relationships between them; read the
time to the quarter hour; identify time intervals, including those that cross the hour
• Use lists, tables and diagrams to sort objects; explain choices using appropriate language, including
'not'
The focus is working with numbers up to 100
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan
Your child will be progressing towards work in Year Three…
• Read and write numbers up to 1000 and put them in order
• Know what each digit is worth in numbers up to 1000
• Count on or back in tens or hundreds from any number less than 1000, for example, ‘462, 472, 482…’
or ‘662, 562, 462…’
• Know by heart addition and subtraction facts up to 20, for example, 4 + 16 = 20, 12 – 8 = 4
• Work calculations out in their head such as 56 + 29 and 97 – 51
• Know by heart the 2, 5 and 10 times tables
• Do simple divisions with remainders, such as 27 ÷ 5
• Find simple fractions, such as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, or 1/10, of shapes such as a circle, square etc., and
numbers
• Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes
• Use £ and p, for example, know that £2.04 is £2 and 4p
• Solve simple number problems and explain how to work them out
• Recognise right angles and lines of symmetry in simple shapes
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
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Guess and count
Guess all kinds of things, and then count to check. Children may make wild guesses at first, but they
are learning about numbers and measures in the real world – and their guessing can only get better.
• How many steps do you think it is from here to the post office? Let’s count and check.
• How many minutes do you think we will have to wait in the queue? Let’s count and check.
• How many pears do you think we will get for £1?
Shopping
When you are shopping, your child could weigh items, add up the cost and count out the change.
Car number plates
One person is ‘even’ and the other is ‘odd’. Add up the digits on car number plates. If the answer is
even the ‘Even’ person scores the point; if it’s odd the ‘Odd’ person scores.
M376 TFN
3 and 7 and 6 makes 16. That’s even,
so it’s my point.
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan
Car number games
Look at the three digits (numbers) on a car, for example 562:
• The biggest number you can make by rearranging them is 652
• The smallest number you can make is 256
• Add the numbers together (5 + 6 + 2 = 13).
Aim for £1
You need plenty of 10p, 5p and 1p coins and a dice. Take turns to throw the dice and take that many
coins. All the coins must be of the same value (all 10ps, all 5ps or all 1ps). Add up the total value of
your coins. Keep track of how much money you have collected. If the coins take you over £1, you must
put your coins back instead of collecting them. The first person to get exactly £1 is the winner.
How close? For 2 or 3 people
You need plenty of 10p and 1p coins and a dice.
Take turns to throw the dice and take that many coins.
On each turn you must decide if you are going to take all 1p coins or all 10p coins. After four turns
each, count up your money. Then see who has got closest to £1 without going ‘bust’.
I’ve got a number in my pocket!
My number is less than 100 but what is it? Try to find out what it is in 20 questions. A guess is
wasted so ask questions that remove groups of numbers.
♦ Is it odd or even?
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
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♦ Is it more or less than 50?
♦ Can you divide it by 5?
You can use the 100 grid to help your child to become confident with doing calculations in their head.
Read the numbers in order. Colour all the numbers in the 10 times table yellow (10, 20, 30, 40 and so
on). Colour all the numbers in the 5 times table red (5, 10, 15, 20 and so on). Why have the ‘tens’
numbers ended up ‘orange’?
You can use the 100 grid to help your child to become confident with doing calculations in their head.
Read the numbers in order. Colour all the numbers in the 10 times table yellow (10, 20, 30, 40 and so
on). Colour all the numbers in the 5 times table red (5, 10, 15, 20 and so on). Why have the ‘tens’
numbers ended up ‘orange’?
Check the names of the numbers
Is that number thirty-four or fourty-three? (Pointing to 34)
It’s Nan’s 56th birthday.
Can you find her age on the grid?
Count in tens, starting at any number, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54…..
Use the grid whenever you are talking about numbers
Look for patterns and talk about them
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Look at the numbers in that diagonal line: 10, 19, 28, 37, 46, 55, 64, 73, 82, 91
Each number is nine more than the one before.
Number squares
Cover six numbers on your number square. Can you work out what they are?
Phone number sums
What do all the digits of your phone number add up to? For example, 0181 424 1163 adds up to 31.
Ask your child to find ten phone numbers in your local phone book with the same total as your own
phone number.
Imagine this
Close your eyes and imagine that in front of you is a cube. Can you see it in your mind?
♦ What shape is one side (or face) of a cube? (It’s a square)
♦ How many sides (or faces) has it got?
♦ How many corners has it got?
♦ How many edges has it got?
Seeing the shape in your head is very important in maths. Try this with other solid shapes.
Maths in Year 2-Information for parents
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan
Doubling and halving
Doubling and halving are very useful skills, and people who are fast at mental maths make great use of
them. Your child can practice by using a bus number, a price in a shop window, or a car number plate,
and doubling or halving it in their head.
Year Two Vocabulary
Numbers and the number system
Counting, properties of numbers
and number sequences
two hundred…one thousand
threes, fours, fives…
tally
multiple of
sequence
continue
predict
rule
Place Value and ordering
hundreds
one-, two- or three-digit number
place, place value
stands for, represents
exchange
twenty-first, twenty-second….
Estimating
exact, exactly
round, nearest, round to the
nearest ten
Fractions
part, equal parts
fraction
one whole
one half, two halves
one quarter, two…three…four
quarters
Calculations
Addition and subtraction
addition
one hundred more
subtraction
one hundred less
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tens boundary
Multiplication and division
lots of, groups of, X times, multiply,
multiplied by
multiple of
once, twice, three times….ten
times….
times as (big, long wide…and so on)
repeated addition
array
row, column
share equally
one each, two each, three each…
group in pairs, threes…tens
equal groups of
/, divide, divided by, divided into
Solving problems
Making decisions and reasoning
calculate
calculation
mental calculation
jotting
correct
symbol
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Money
(£)
bought
sold
Organising and using data
tally
graph
block graph
pictogram
represent
label
title
most popular, most common
least popular, least common
Measures, shape and space
Measures (general)
measuring scale
about
Length
further
furthest (m), centimetre (cm)
tape measure
Mass
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Kilogram, ( kg), half- kilogram, gram
(g)
Capacity
capacity
contains
litre (l), half-litre, millilitre (ml)
Time
months of the year: January,
February….
fortnight
minute
second
quarter to, quarter past
digital/analogue clock/watch, timer
Shape and space
surface
2D shapes
circular
triangular
rectangular
pentagon
hexagon
octagon
Patterns and symmetry
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line of symmetry
fold
mirror line, reflection
Position, direction and movement
route
higher, lower
clockwise, anti-clockwise
quarter turn
right angle
straight line
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Instructions
recite
predict
describe the pattern
describe the rule
find all, find different
investigate
decide
name
discuss
explain your method
explain how you got your answer
give an example of…..
write in figures
present
represent
label
tally
calculate
solve
General
number pairs, number bonds, hundred square, number grid , geo-strips
Beech Class teacher: Mrs L Pavlidou-Sullivan