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Number and place value
Learn how to count, read and write numbers up to 100
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Addition and subtraction
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Multiplication and division
Discover key multiplication and division facts
Find out about data and how to read bar charts and graphs
Measurement
Explore time, volume and length and quantities
Learn how to identify 2D and 3D shapes
Position and direction
Discover how to arrange objects into patterns
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Learn what a fraction is and how to order them
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What do children learn in KS1 maths?
In Key Stage 1 (KS1), kids explore a wide breath of content to help develop their knowledge of core concepts and gain an understanding of how maths is used in everyday life. From fractions to shapes, they learn lots of key skills that’ll place them in great stead for KS2! The main topics they learn about are…
1. Number and place value: In the KS1 maths curriculum, children learn to count, read, write and represent numbers up to 100. They also learn how to compare numbers and use the place value system.
2. Addition and subtraction: Children learn various strategies for mental and written addition and subtraction. They also explore number bonds, counting techniques and inverse operations.
3. Multiplication and division: Kids develop their understanding of multiplication and division and learn how to solve problems using multiplication and division facts, arrays and pictorial representations.
4. Fractions : Learners discover how to recognise, name, find and write fractions in relation to length, shapes and quantity.
5. Measurement: In KS1 maths, children learn how to use appropriate units, estimate measurements and read scales, including length, capacity and time.
6. Properties of shapes: Learners explore the fundamentals of shapes, including how to recognise and name different types of 2D and 3D shapes.
7. Position and direction: Children learn how to describe position, direction and movement, as well as how to organise objects into patterns and sequences.
8. Statistics: In the KS1 curriculum, kids explore how to collect and organise data. They also learn how to create graphs and interpret data using a variety of graphs.
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There are lots of ways that you can help your child or pupils to learn KS1 maths:
- Rather than explaining concepts, use visual representations to explore them, such as number lines and grids.
- Nothing beats doodling! Encourage your child or pupils to draw pictures to help them understand concepts or have a go at working out the answer to a question.
- Use real-life items to explore number, such as Smarties or pebbles. Encourage your child to sort the items into different amounts; doing this will help them understand concepts such as addition and fractions!
- Boosting their instant recall skills will help them with their mental maths and speed answering questions. Learning times tables in a specific order and using fun activities is a great way to help with this!
An array is an arrangement of items (such as pictures or numbers) in columns or rows.
They let children visualise what happens when they multiply or divide numbers together, helping them master times tables and division!
Reasoning is basically detective work: it’s when learners use what they already know to work out the answer to a question.
For example, if a child knows what 12 – 5 is, they can use this knowledge to work out what 12 – 6 is.
“I know that 12 – 5 is 7. As 6 is 1 higher than 5, the answer must be 1 higher than 7.”
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Reasoning and Problem Solving Questions Collection - KS1 and KS2
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Age range: 5-7
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These booklets each contain over 40 reasoning and problem solving questions suitable for KS1, KS2 and KS3 classes. These are the questions that we have been putting out each day in March 2016 on Twitter in the run up to SATS.
The answers are provided with some simple notes at the back of the booklet and for some problems supplementary questions and variation has been provided.
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The ebook i see reasoning - ks1 gives 281 thought-provoking images and questions linked to all areas of the ks1 maths curriculum. tasks help to build children's conceptual understanding, promoting non-counting calculation and providing opportunities for reasoning and talk. there are rich tasks for deepening learning every day.
I See Reasoning - KS1 Addition is a free sample section from the resource. Visual prompts help children to see likely mistakes, notice similarities between questions and develop new strategies for calculating. Techniques such as Read the Pictures, Explain the Mistakes and Which Answer? draw attention to key learning points and help to generate focused talk. For order enquiries, please read the Frequently Asked Questions .
There are prompts that open up mathematical investigations, for example the Different Ways tasks. True or False? questions draw children's attention to key differences between correct and incorrect responses. There are also different question types that are specific to particular areas of the curriculum, like the Missing Hand questions in the time section. There are answers too!
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Patterns and Sequences KS1
This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.
Poly Plug Pattern
Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?
Chairs and Tables
Make a chair and table out of interlocking cubes, making sure that the chair fits under the table!
Next Domino
Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?
A City of Towers
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
Domino Patterns
What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?
Repeating Patterns
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
Cube Bricks and Daisy Chains
Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.
Three Ball Line Up
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Caterpillars
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?
Missing Middles
Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?
Triple Cubes
This challenge involves eight three-cube models made from interlocking cubes. Investigate different ways of putting the models together then compare your constructions.
Street Sequences
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
Circles, Circles
Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?
Break it Up!
In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?
Counting Stick Conjectures
How many rectangles can you see? Are they all the same size? Can you predict how many rectangles there will be in counting sticks of different lengths?
Hundred Square
A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?
School Fair Necklaces
How many possible symmetrical necklaces can you find? How do you know you've found them all?
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Put the plates in a cross. Use all 15 counters. Put a different number on each plate. Make each line add up to 10. Do it again. This time make each line add up to 8. Solve mathematical problems or puzzles. Know addition and subtraction facts up to 10. Add three small numbers mentally.
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Number Lines. Age 5 to 7. Challenge Level. A resource to try once children are familiar with number lines, and they have begun to use them for addition. It could be a good way to talk about subtraction. Leah and Tom each have a number line. Can you work out where their counters will land?
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Chain of Changes. Age 5 to 7. Challenge Level. Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?
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Age 5 to 7. Challenge Level. In this game, you throw a dice and move counters along the snail's body and in a spiral around the snail's shell. It is about understanding tens and ones.
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Ring a Ring of Numbers. Age 5 to 7. Challenge Level. Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
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Newspaper Fashion Show. Group Size: Multiple groups of 4 - 5 Key Stages: KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5 Team Building Skills: Imagination, Planning, Strategy, Communication Equipment: Newspaper, String, Tape Download Activity PDF Newspaper Fashion Show will have your teams in tears of laughter. The participants will need to be arranged in groups of 4.
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The Problem with Problem Solving at Stage 1. In this feature we have collected together some of our exciting tasks that use lots of problem solving skills. Tangrams. Age 5 to 11. Challenge Level.
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Cube Bricks and Daisy Chains. Age 5 to 7. Challenge Level. Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.
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