Subject Lead: Miss C Brumby
Maths Curriculum 2022-2023
Parents’ Leaflets
Exploring Maths at The Ryde School
Reception
In reception, maths learning is completed through teacher led activities as well as explore and learn time. The EYFS framework says that ‘Developing a strong grounding in number is essential so that all children develop the necessary building blocks to excel mathematically’.
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- Exploring odds and evens
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- Exploring 3D shapes
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- Exploring pairs
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- Exploring patterns – Diwali
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- Counting things we can’t see.
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- Shopping at the fruit shop.
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- Counting out 5p for our shopping trip – Handa’s Surprise.
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- Drawing a map of our garden area – positional language, counting.
Year 1
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- They have used a range of different resources, including diennes and other small objects to represent more than and less than in different ways.
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- The children have used a range of resources in their outdoor area to support their counting skills, including counting objects which can’t be touched.
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- Year 1 have also used number lines and cubes to represent numbers for counting.
Year 2
Our parents came in and helped us with different maths activities relating to our learning this term. We completed problem solving questions, times table rock stars, identifying coins, adding three 1-digit number games etc.
Sorting and identifying shapes
We learnt about different 2D shapes and created shape monsters, making a list of the name and amount of each shape used. We also had a go at sorting the 2D shapes in different ways (by colour, sides, vertices, edges).
On Maths Day, we went outside and found arrays. We then wrote down what these would be as repeated addition and a multiplication sentence.
Year 3
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- In class, the children have used counters to support then with multiplication and division by using grouping.
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- The activities included measuring items and sorting them; making numbers with diennes equipment; investigating if taller people can jump further, challenging their parents to Times Tables Rockstars; money problems and more.
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- Year 3 invited their parents into school to complete a range of maths activities with their children, using a wide range of the manipulatives that the children use in school.
Year 4
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- As part of their design and technology – food and nutrition project, they had to use weighing scales to measure out the ingredients they needed for their recipe. They made Anglo-Saxon honey shortbread, which were delicious.
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- Year 4 developed their understanding of angles using the outdoor environment to support. They presented their learning on the computer. They used the outdoor environment to explore right angles and recorded them by taking photos.
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- Year 4 have also taken full advantage of our newly installed orienteering course, completing a maths circuit outside, revising key elements of the four operations they have learnt in lessons in maths.
Year 5
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- This year, some children in year 5 took part in the Herts for Learning Year 5 Maths Challenge. This is an example from their memory round..
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- During their den building time in OAA week, year 5 were given a set budget in their groups. They then had to think carefully about what resources they wanted to buy and plan accordingly. They then had to go to the shop and make their purchases.
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- In class, they have used different manipulatives to support their learning. They have used diennes to represent the groups when multiplying a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.
Year 6
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- Year 6 were inspired by the artwork of Piet Mondrian and created these pieces based on their learning of area and perimeter. They were given a set of challenges to complete, including: Can you draw a shape in which the area is numerically equal to its perimeter? Can you draw a shape in which the perimeter is numerically twice the area/perimeter?
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- They measured the heights of trees using clinometers, which they made themselves. They needed to estimate the height of the tree first. Then they used their clinometers to measure the height of the trees of their choice.
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- After completing their unit on ratio, scales and scale factors, class 6 had a go at creating a to-scale map of the school grounds. They used trundle wheels to measure the different areas of the outdoor space before scaling them down to draw in the classroom.
World Maths Day 23rd March 2022
