KS2
Fluency & Recall
- Regular practice of times tables (little and often) – use TT Rockstars to support your child with this
- Use songs, chants, apps or flashcards
- Quick-fire mental maths questions (e.g. “What’s 6 × 4?”)
Multiplication & Division
- Practise related facts (if 6 × 4 = 24, then 24 ÷ 6 = 4)
- Use arrays, drawings or groups of objects
- Ask children to explain their method
Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
- Share food into fractions (pizza, cake, chocolate) e.g. “Cut this pizza into quarters, how many pieces are there?”
- Talk about money (change, totals, discounts) e.g. Let your child handle money and work out how much things cost or how much change they will get, work out the best special offer when out shopping
- Compare fractions and decimals using number lines e.g. “What is more ¾ or 2/3?”
Time
- Look at clocks and tell the time – digital and analogue
- Talk about timings on TV guides or when you are planning a journey. E.g. “It takes 20 minutes to get to school. What time will we arrive if we leave at 8.00am?”, “We arrived at 10.25am, it took us 45 minutes to get here. What time did we leave?”
Problem Solving
- Ask open questions: “How do you know?”, “Is there another way?”
- Encourage children to estimate before calculating
Reasoning Skills
- Ask children to justify answers
- Discuss mistakes and why they happened
- Compare two different methods
Games
- Times table bingo
- Card games: Multiplication War, Make 24
- Online maths games linked to school learning (see links below)
- Sudoku and logic puzzles
Links to Maths Games
Bitesize Maths https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdjkjfr#zm7tg2p
Maths Frame https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
Math Games https://eng.mathgames.com/
Top Marks https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Free 1 Minute Maths App https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths#download
TT Rockstars – guides and video
Please see our Maths curriculum page for more information.
https://www.grovepark-ba-mat.org.uk/page/?title=Mathematics&pid=72