Maths Zone
EYFS and KS1
We aim to secure firm foundations in development of good number sense for all children from Foundation Stage through Year 1 and 2.
Click on the following links for videos and activities to support your children at home.
Maths Activities for ages 5 and under
'Teaching For Mastery' KS1 and KS2
At Beam, we use 'Teaching for Mastery' approach as the foundation for our Maths curriculum. One of the main aspects of 'Teaching for Mastery' is the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach (CPA) teaches children key concepts and mathematical structures using concrete manipulatives, and enabling them to explore different representations before abstractly apply this understanding. Click on the following link to watch videos on how you can support your child at home.
White Rose - Maths with Michael Underwood
Times tables
Times tables are an important life skill that will be used by children throughout their education, as well as adult life. Securing times tables early enable children to store multiplication facts in their long -term memory and reduce cognitive load. At Beam, pupils have access to TTRockstars in school and at home. Times Tables are an area of mathematics that parents can easily support at home. See below for a parent guide to using the website at home.
Press here for the Times Tables Rock Stars
There are free workbooks for parents to download at home:
https://whiterosemaths.com/parent-resources#download
Press here for maths strategy videos to support parents and pupils
ThirdSpaceLearning and National numeracy offer free home maths toolkit parents to cultivate mathematical culture in their homes.
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Below are three sample question from a year’s Junior Maths Challenge, which some of our more able mathematicians attend:
Which of the following has the same remainder when it is divided by 2 as when it is divided by 3?
A 3 B 5 C 7 D 9 E 1
How many of the four Knaves were telling the truth?
- Knave of Hearts: “I stole the tarts.”
- Knave of Clubs: ‘The Knave of Hearts is lying.”
- Knave of Diamonds: “The Knave of Clubs is lying.”
- Knave of Spades: “Knave of Diamonds is lying.”
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E more info needed
A palindromic number is a number that reads the same when the order of its digits is reversed. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest five-digit palindromic numbers that are both multiples of 45?
A 9180 B 9090 C 9000 D 8910 E 8190