This week in Maths we have been using our knowledge of 10 to help us add numbers efficiently. We used tens frames and counters to help us familiarise ourselves with this method. We have also been exploring how this might look pictorially as well as using more formal written methods.
Think 10 is not a concept we have found easy but we haven’t given up. We recapped and practised the Think 5 method we learnt in the Autumn term and used this as a nice stepping stone to working with the larger number of 10. Our teachers have been very impressed to see us working with determination and trying our best to use our growth mindsets!
How to help at home
- Encourage your child to use Numbots regularly at home – this really helps their fluency with number. If they know that 8 needs 2 to make 10 and that 6 is made of 2 and 4, then they can use that to solve 8 + 6 by regrouping 6 in to 2 and 4 and then doing 8 + 2 + 4 =
- Talk to your child about numbers in everyday life e.g. there will be 4 people sitting at the dinner table, how many knives and forks do we need? How did you work that out?
- See if they can show you how we have used this method at school. They could draw their own tens frames on paper and then use Lego bricks as counters.