P5/6/7 children can also use Corbett 5-a-day to practise skills and apply them in a context. Click here to access the site. Your child should start with bronze and if it proves easy, move up the levels to work on the one that is comfortable for them. They can access the answers and self mark to get instance feedback.
P5/6/7 children will also benefit from regular times tables practice: Tables Challenge . Younger children will also learn tables in school and might get asked to practice as part of their homework but it is important that the conceptual understanding comes before rote learning so we like the learning to happen in class first.
Older children who need to work from home because they are isolating will enjoy this technology challenge as a way to practise number skills in a context.
Children of this age and stage need to spend time applying their adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing skills to solving problems. It is more helpful to solve a few word problems than to do pages and pages of sums. It is helpful if you talk through the problems with your child to help them understand what sort of sum they need to do to solve the problem. Some problems need more than one sum to get to the answer. Time spent solving word problems together is very well spent because it helps build your child’s confidence with number concepts. Here are 8 question sheets and 8 matching answer sheets. Your child can check their answers once they have finished. If they get the question wrong, they should try to work out where they went wrong. It is ok if they lay their sum out differently from the one on the answer sheet or use a different strategy. There isn’t always just one way to find the right answer. The sheets get progressively more challenging – start with Questions 1 and skip on if it isn’t presenting a challenge.
