Family Numeracy: Course Outline. Week Taster
Topic Making clocks: How we can use clocks and time to help our children with maths.
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Course introduction and enrolment: Discussion about everyday maths and maths in school, making a learning resource to use at home.
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How our children learn: Foundation stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. What do our children know and how we can help them learn/ practice? Making maths jigsaws
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Addition: Different strategies and methods of addition. How we can practice addition at home. Making number cards to use at home.
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Subtraction: Different strategies and methods of subtraction. How we can practice subtraction at home. Making a number line.
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Vocabulary and games: Using vocabulary to describe different number operations. Playing and evaluating maths games.
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Multiplication is the opposite of division: Doing an investigation, practising and learning times tables. Games with times tables
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Division and multiplication methods: Multiplying by 10 and 100, dividing by 10 and 100. Exploring different methods of multiplication and division.
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Shapes: Naming and describing 2D shapes, calculating area and perimeter, naming and describing 3D shapes. Shape games
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Measure: Why and what do we measure? Different units and reading scales. Measure activities we can do at home.
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Evaluation and celebration: Course evaluation party and certificate giving. (Can include children)