Maths at Coppice Farm
Maths lead at Coppice Farm: Miss Ife
Pupil Voice: What do our pupils say about Maths at Coppice Farm?
June 2023
How do you feel when you are about to start Maths?
Y5 - "Quite excited - Maths is easy."
Y4 - "I feel relaxed because it's enjoyable."
Y3 - " I feel happy because it's one of my favourite subjects. I like doing shapes."
Y2 - "Energised because I think I'm going to get all of the answers right!"
What can you do if you get stuck in Maths?
Y4 - "Ask the teacher or a friend for help. We also have things in our class like hundred squares, times table bookmarks and cubes."
Y4 - "Take a deep breath, read the question again and have another try."
Y3 - "Read the question again. Think about it. If that doesn't work, ask a teacher."
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White Rose Maths
Throughout the school, children are taught using the White Rose Maths framework for teaching. White Rose provide small steps of learning where each step builds carefully from the previous step and builds on pupils’ prior knowledge to develop new skills, which supports our mastery approach.
Useful documents:
The 5 Big Ideas in Teaching for Mastery
National Curriculum for Mathematics
White Rose Maths - National Curriculum Progression
Coppice Farm Maths Policy (September 2023)
EYFS long term overview 2023 - 2024
Year 1 long term overview 2023 - 2024
Year 2 long term overview 2023 - 2024
Year 3 long term overview 2023 - 2024
Year 4 long term overview 2023 - 2024
Year 5 long term overview 2023 - 2024
Year 6 long term overview 2023 - 2024
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Helping your child with Maths at home
Every year at Parents' Evening, we get asked the key question:
"How can I help my child with maths at home?"
Which is then followed by the worry of telling their child the wrong way to work out an answer or even being told by the child themselves that it isn't how they did it at school that day.
Above in the 'useful documents' section, you will find our updated calculation policy which goes through the way we teach maths concepts in school.
2 key things to help your child on their way to being successful at maths is:
Telling them they are great at maths
Telling them that you like maths (even if in reality you don't!)
Many parents will say, "I hated maths when I was at school" .. or .. "I wasn't/I'm not very good at maths myself."
Try not to share these negative thoughts about your own experience with maths as these can then pass onto your child. Maths lessons have evolved over the years and is taught VERY differently, with many children in Primary really enjoying their lessons.
Point out the use of maths skills in everyday life where possible:
- Counting - playing board games
- Measurement - baking
- Money - paying for items at a shop, checking change, food shopping, saving/spending pocket money etc
- Time - telling the time on analogue and digital clocks, travelling
- Shapes - spotting shapes when out for a walk
- Fractions - cutting cakes, sharing toys, slices of pizza
I've also included a document below with some more invaluable tips from Professor Jo Boaler about advice for parents with maths at home
Click here for 'Advice for Parents from Professor Jo Boaler document'
Below is a list of maths APPs (mainly FREE ones) which can be used to help with your child's maths skills.
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Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
By the time children reach the end of Year 4, they are expected to know all of their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 at a good rate of recall.
At the end of the academic year, they will be taking a statutory multiplication tables check (MTC). The purpose of the check is to determine whether pupils can fluently recall their times tables up to 12, which is essential for future success in mathematics.
It will also help us to identify pupils who may need additional support.
For more information:
2020 Information for Parents: Multiplication Tables Check (click here)
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KS2 Times Table Challenge
Times Table Challenge letter (click here)
We have a Times Table Challenge to help track children's progress in the learning of their multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12, as is required by Year 4 in the new Primary National Curriculum.
This is an opportunity for children to learn the division facts which are the inverse of the times tables they have learned previously.
Traditionally, times tables were learned in order; 1 x 3 = 3, 2 x 3 = 6.
However, this is not useful for the real life application of those times tables or for completing written multiplication or division. Therefore, children will be tested in a random order of multiplication and division facts.
See your child's tracker in their school diary to see which multiplication they are working on.
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Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS)
TTRS information for parents (click here)
We launched TTRS at Coppice Farm in Autumn 2019 as a way to help children with their recall of times tables. It has had great success so far with those who have used it regularly.
An example from this year is a child in Year 4 going from answering questions up to 12x12 in 18.18 seconds per question to 0.88 seconds per question. Amazing results!
By the time your child reaches the end of Year 4, the National Curriculum specifies that they should be able to recall the multiplication tables up to and including 12x12.
From June 2020, the children in Year 4 are required to take an online multiplication tables check where they will be asked 25 questions and be expected to answer each one in under 6 seconds.
For year groups 2 - 6, each child has a log in for TTRS and their teacher should have set their 'Garage' mode to the times table(s) they are working on.
If you have any issues with logging onto TTRS, please speak with your child's class teacher and they will be happy to help you.
