Maths
Supporting your child with maths in primary school can be both fun and practical by incorporating real-life situations into everyday activities. For example, when shopping, you can involve your child in calculating the total cost of items, comparing prices, and working out any discounts. This helps them understand addition, subtraction, and the concept of money. Planning a party offers another great opportunity—ask your child to help with tasks like counting invitations, measuring ingredients for recipes, or figuring out how many supplies are needed for different activities.
By connecting maths to real-world experiences, children can see its relevance and develop confidence in their problem-solving skills.
The Importance of Timestables
Timetables and regular practice are fundamental in helping children build a strong foundation in maths. Learning multiplication and division facts fluently gives children the confidence they need to tackle more complex concepts, such as fractions, decimals, and percentages.
Being confident with timetables allows children to quickly and accurately solve problems as well as real-life situations. For example, when measuring ingredients for a recipe or working out distances and area, a solid grasp of multiplication and division helps children make faster, more accurate calculations.
Supporting your child to learn their timetables and encouraging regular practice helps to develop mathematical confidence and supports children’s overall problem-solving abilities in both maths and daily life.
The school uses Mathletics to set homework, but Mathletics is much more than a homework tool. It is a fun and engaging way for children to consolidate and learn new mathematical concepts. Mathletics contains an extensive range of activities, printable eBooks, a Concept Search Tool, animated help centre and much more.
Exciting Live Mathletics allows children to play real-time mental arithmetic games against others from their classroom, school or around the world.
Encourage your children to explore Mathletics. It is so much more than just homework! If your child has lost their login information or needs support accessing Mathletics then please contact their class teacher.
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