Mathematics: Medium Term Plan, Spring 2, 2017 Cygnets Class
Mathematics Focus
Weeks 1-7
Mental Maths
Daily activities
Measuring Space
Weeks 1-7
Year 1
Year 2
On-going activities:
Mental Maths every day, focussing on counting in 2’s, 5’s and
10’s, number bonds to 10 and 20,
Practising ‘Learn-Its’.
On-going activities:
Mental Maths every day, focussing on counting in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s,
Revising number bonds to 10 and 20,
Practising ‘Learn-Its’.
Using Mathematical skills in Science lessons, e.g. Measurement
and Statistics.
Using Mathematical skills in Science lessons, e.g. Measurement and
statistics.
Key concepts and activities:
•measure and begin to record the following: lengths and
heights; mass/weight; capacity and volume; time (hours,
minutes, seconds)
•compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths
and heights [for example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short,
double/half]; mass/weight [for example, heavy/light, heavier
than, lighter than]; capacity and volume [for example,
full/empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time
[for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]
•Know the units of hours, minutes and seconds
•Use appropriate equipment to measure a given distance
(mass, capacity, time)
•Measure a given distance (mass, capacity, time)
•Record measurements using a system of non-standard or
standard units
•Know the language of comparison
•Compare two lengths (masses, capacities, times)
•Order a selection of lengths (masses, capacities, times)
•Select appropriate language when making comparisons
•Solve problems involving length, height, mass, volume or time
Key concepts and activities:
•choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure
length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C);
capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales,
thermometers and measuring vessels
•compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results
using >, < and =
•Know the units metres and centimetres, and their abbreviations
•Know the units kilograms and grams, and their abbreviations
•Know the units litres and millilitres, and their abbreviations
•Know the unit degrees Celsius and its abbreviation
•Choose appropriate units to measure a given distance (mass, capacity)
•Choose appropriate equipment to measure a given distance (mass,
capacity, temperature)
•Estimate a given distance (mass, capacity)
•Measure a given distance (mass, capacity, temperature)
•Compare two lengths (masses, capacities, temperatures) stated in the
same unit
•Compare two lengths (masses, capacities) stated in different units
•Order a selection of lengths (masses, capacities, temperatures) stated in
the same unit
•Order a selection of lengths (masses, capacities) stated in different units
Mathematics Focus
Numbers and the
Number System
Weeks 1-2
Year 1
Key Concepts: Read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and
words.
Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial
representations, including the number line.
Activities: Matching numerals to words, number line activities:
counting on from a given number. Ordering numbers to 20.
Key Concept: Count, read and write numbers to 100, count in
multiples of 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
Activities: Practical counting activities, using a variety of
apparatus. Encouraging children to use the language of: equal
to, more than, less than, most, least when comparing sets of
objects.
Using One-hundred squares for counting activities.
Year 2
Key Concepts: Recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit
number (tens and ones)
Read and write numerals to at least 100 in numerals and in words.
Use place value and number facts to solve problems.
Activities: counting and partitioning numbers systematically using practical
apparatus into multiples of tens and units. Encouraging children to use the
language of: equal to, more than, less than, most, least when comparing
the value of numbers.
Using One-hundred squares and number lines for counting activities.
Key Concepts: Compare and order numbers from 0 to 100; using correct
symbols to represent more than, less than and ‘equal to’.
Count in steps of 2, 3. And 5 from 0 and in tens from any number, forward
and backward.
Activities: Identifying and exploring number patterns, using visual resources
such as the number line, number grid or practical apparatus. Counting,
comparing and ordering numbers.
Mathematics Focus
Calculation
Addition & Subtraction
Week 3
Year 1
Key Concepts:
Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving
addition, subtraction and equals signs.
Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20,
including zero.
Solve one-step problems that involve addition and
subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial
representations and missing number problems.
Year 2
Key Concepts:
Recall and use addition and subtraction facts up to 20 fluently and derive
and use related facts up to 20.
Add and subtract numbers, using concrete objects, pictorial
representations and mentally, including a two-digit number and ones, a
two-digit number and tens, adding three one-digit numbers.
Solve addition and subtraction problems, using concrete objects and
pictorial representations.
Activities: Solving calculations using concrete apparatus, as
well as using number lines, solving missing number problems.
Reading, writing and ordering numbers to 20. Revising number
bonds to 10 and 20.
•Read statements involving the symbols ‘+’, ‘–‘ and ‘=’
involving numbers up to 20
•Interpret statements involving the symbols ‘+’, ‘–‘ and ‘=’
involving numbers up to 20
•Write statements involving the symbols ‘+’, ‘–‘ and ‘=’
involving numbers up to 20
•Solve calculations involving numbers up to 20 given
statements using the symbols ‘+’, ‘–‘ and ‘=’
•Solve missing number problems involving numbers to 20
given statements using the symbols ‘+’, ‘–‘ and ‘=’
•Add and subtract one- and two-digit numbers to 20, including
zero
Activities: Exploring mental strategies to solve calculations. Recalling and
using addition and subtraction facts within 20. Using addition/subtraction
facts within 100. Adding a two-digit number and ones, two two–digit
numbers, three one-digit numbers,
Subtracting ones from a two-digit number (a two-digit number from a twodigit number) Choosing the most efficient method to solve addition and
subtraction problems. Checking calculations using the correct inverse
operation.
Mathematics Focus
Year 1
Key Concepts: Solve one-step problems involving
multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using
concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with
the support of the teacher.
Year 2
Key Concepts: Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5,
and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even
numbers. Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and
division within the multiplication tables and write them using the
multiplication, division and equals signs. Solve problems involving
multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition,
mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems
in contexts.
Activities: Counting from zero in equal steps, such as 2’s, 5’s
and 10’s. Doubling numbers up to 10. Halving numbers up to
20. Using concrete objects to solve division (grouping and
sharing) and multiplication. Using pictorial representations to
solve division problems (grouping and sharing). Using arrays to
solve multiplication and division problems.
Activities: A variety of activities will be introduced to develop the children’s
mental arithmetic skills and knowledge of multiplication tables. Activities
will also be introduced to help the children to understand that
multiplication is commutative and division is not commutative. The children
will use concrete apparatus and arrays to represent a multiplication. They
will work on solving missing number problems involving multiplication and
division.
Key Concepts: Recognise, find and name a half as one of two
equal parts of an object, shape or quantity.
Recognise, find and name a quarter as one of four equal parts
of an object, shape or quantity.
Key Concepts: Recognise,, find, name and write fractions ; 1/2, 1/4 , 2/4
and 3/4) of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
Write simple fractions, e.g. 1/2 of 6=3 and recognise the equivalence of
2/4 and 1/2.
Activities: Fractions games, splitting objects, shapes and
quantities equally. Link with shape: Using 2-D shapes;
recognising a half/ quarter of a shape. Using fraction notation
to write a half/ a quarter.
Statistics:
•interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block
diagrams and simple tables
•ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of
objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity
•ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing
categorical data
•Count the number of objects in a category to find an answer
to a question
Activities: Children will need opportunities to explore practically fractions
of lengths, objects and shapes and then to make links to representation of
what they have found.
Calculation
Week 4
Multiplication and
Division
Week 5
Fractions
Presentation of
data/statistics
Week 6
Statistics:
•interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams
and simple tables
•ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in
each category and sorting the categories by quantity
•ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data
•Count the number of objects in a category to find an answer to a question
•Sort categories by quantity to find an answer to a question
•Ask questions about the number of objects in a category
Mathematics Focus
Mathematical
Movement
Week 7
Easter Maths
Year 1
•Sort categories by quantity to find an answer to a question
•Ask questions about the number of objects in a category
•Know how to group in fives when tallying
•Interpret a tally chart
•Interpret a block diagram
•Construct a block diagram
Year 2
•Interpret a pictogram where the symbol represents a single (multiple, i.e.
2, 5, or 10 items) item.
•Know how to group in fives when tallying
•Interpret a tally chart
•Interpret a block diagram
•Construct a block diagram
•Interpret information in a table
•Create a table to show information
Key concepts and activities:
•describe position, direction and movement, including whole,
half, quarter and three-quarter turns.
•Use mathematical language to describe movement along a
straight line
•Use the language of right angles to describe the size of turn
•Carry out a turn of a given size and direction
•Devise instructions for following a simple route
•Arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns
and sequences
Key concepts and activities:
•use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and
movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing
between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half
and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise)
•order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and
sequences
•Use mathematical language to describe movement along a straight line
•Understand the meaning of anticlockwise
•Use mathematical language to describe direction of a turn
•Understand the meaning of a right angle
•Use the language of right angles to describe the size of turn
•Carry out a turn of a given size and direction
•Draw a right angle
•Interpret instructions for following a simple route
•Devise instructions for following a simple route
Easter egg maths activities throughout the week, linked to
shape, weight, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
and money.
Mathematics Focus
Year 1
Year 2