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Parents workshop- Understanding progression in calculation in order to support your child at home. Whissendine and St Nicholas Primary School Thursday 17 th January.
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Parents workshop-Understanding progression in calculation in order to support your child at home. Whissendine and St Nicholas Primary School Thursday 17th January
“Development of memorisation, accuracy and fluency is important. However, this must take place in parallel with development of understanding and reasoning because: • Children who do not understand what they are doing often make errors when choosing and carrying out procedures, cannot reconstruct steps, cannot self-monitor their work, and cannot check for reasonableness • Life in a global changing economy requires adaptability; it is difficult to be adaptable if you do not understand what you are doing.” • ACME Report on Primary Arithmetic, Dec. 2010
Lots of the ‘same thing’ 4 x 3 = 12 4
Using fingers “12” “6” “9” “3”
0 3 6 9 12 Bead strings/bead bars Number Line/ number tracks
7 8 = 56 5 lots of 7 3 lots of 7 5 x 7 = 35 3 x 7 = 21 ___ 56
7 8 = 56 4 lots of 7 4 x 7 = 28 Doubled = 56
7 8 = 56 5 x 8 = 40 And two more 8’s is 56 5 lots of 8 And another two 8’s
18 x 13 = ? 10 18 18 8 10 100 80 13 13 3 30 24
8 1 0 24 30 80 100 234 1 0 1 0 0 8 0 + 3 0 2 4 3 1
10 8 100 80 10 24 3 30 or (3 18) (10 18) (3 18) (10 18)
372 x 24 Children will approximate first 372 x 24 is approximately 400 x 25 = 10000
Downloading times table raps/ songs/ tunes Making up your own tunes Downloading times tables games/apps (Squeebles/Ghost Blasters) Board games (Hoo! Ha!)