Mathematics Department Learner Journey

Homework:

We encourage pupils to complete homework most nights to help pupils with retention and develop the skills for self-management for their exams. It can be through our Google Classroom, text book or at the teacher’s discretion.

How to Help at Home:

  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access material that will help their studies
  • Encourage your child to study at home, going over previous topics
  • Use material on school website
  • BBC Bize Scotland has material for level 2 and 3

Learning Intention / Success Criteria / How you can help at home / Assessments
To learn how to round numbers
to different place values. /
  • Place value up to million
  • Rounding to hundreds, tens, units
  • Rounding to 1dp and 2dp
  • Multiplying /dividing 10,100, 1000
/ / Class test after topics
To apply knowledge of all four operations and use them to solve problems. /
  • Basic adding to 4 figures
  • Aligning the sum properly
  • Vocabulary for adding
  • Worded problems
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  • You could let your child add up the shopping bill and find the change due.

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  • Basic subtracting to 4 figures
  • Aligning the sum properly
  • Vocabulary for subtracting
  • Worded problems

  • Multiplying three figures by a single digit
  • Aligning the sum properly
  • Vocabulary for multiplying
  • Worded problems

  • Dividing three figures by a single digit
  • Aligning the sum properly
  • Vocabulary for dividing
  • Worded problems
/ Class test after topics
Understand what a fractionsis and use them to solve problems /
  • Simplify small fractions
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Find a fraction of a number (also harder examples with number on numerator)
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  • When shopping in the sales you could ask your child to work out what they will save on items
/ Class test after topics
Apply knowledge of decimals tomoney problems and use all four operations.
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  • Reminder rounding to 1dp and 2dp
  • Adding, subtracting decimals
  • Multiplying and dividing decimals by a single digit
  • Applying decimal knowledge to money problems
  • Understanding the coins and notes that we use
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  • Encourage your child to find the best deals in shops
/ Class test after topics
Understand the link between percentages and fractions and use the skills to find a percentage of an amount. /
  • Learn basic percentages relevant fractions
  • Find a basic percentage of a number no calc
  • Using a calc find a percentage of a number
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  • When shopping in the sales you could ask your child to work out what they will save on items
/ Class test after topics
Use scales to measure and read values from a scale
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  • Scales in real life
  • Reading basic scales
  • Reading harder scales
  • Measuring objects with scales
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  • When baking or cooking allow your child to measure out ingredients.
/ Class test after topics
Tell the time and count on time. /
  • Telling the time 12 and 24 hour
  • Counting on time
  • Mins-sec
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  • If possible give your child an analogue watch and encourage them to tell you the time.
/ Class test after topics
Describe probability in real life situations and find the probability of an event happening- NUMERACY Project
Level 2 Ideas of chance and uncertainty
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  • Probability of simple events happening, dice, cards, spinners
/ Play games with your child
  • Playing cards
  • Games with Dice like snakes and ladders
/ Block test for the work covered so far
Learning Intention / Success Criteria / How can you help at home / Assessment
Describe how to find the perimeter/length of shapes and use the calculations to solve problems.
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  • Perimeter of basic shapes
  • Finding the missing side given the perimeter
  • HARD change units of measurement cm-mm
/ / Class test after topics
Describe how to find the area of basic shapes and use the formulas to solve problems
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  • Area squares and rectangle
  • Area of triangles
  • Further Quadrilaterals
  • Find the missing side using the area
/ / Class test after topics
Understand what volume
Is and describe the formula for finding the volume of cubes and cuboids.
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  • Volume of cubes and cuboids
  • Counting blocks
  • Using the formula
  • Volume of cylinders and prisms
  • Find the missing length using the volume
/ / Class test after topics
Use real life time tables to plan a journey.
Level 2 Only
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  • Read bus/train timetables
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  • When using the bus or train ask if your child can find the next train on the timetable.
/ Class test after topics
Using street directions to navigate a journey.
Level 2 Only
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  • Describe a journey using straight ahead, left and right
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  • Encourage your child to tell you how to get to familiar places using the words turn right, left and straight on.
/ Class test after topics
Apply skills of scale drawing to measure distances and draw basic scales. /
  • Measure lines/distances cm/mm/m
  • Basic scale factor
  • Draw a simple scale
  • Draw accurate triangles
/ / Class test after topics
Identify number patterns and describe the pattern. /
  • Filling in the next number of a simple sequence
  • Square numbers, triangular numbers, multiples and factor
  • Drawing the next pattern to a sequence
  • Completing a table
  • Writing the basic formula
  • Write down any formula for the pattern
/ / Class test after topics
NUMERACY PROJECT
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Learning Intention / Benchmarks / How can I help at home / Assessment
To learn how to calculate basic wages and understand terms income and expenditure. Apply knowledge of decimals to real life money problems. /
  • Calculate basic wage
  • Understand what the living wage is
  • Discuss overtime
  • Carry out four calculations with money
  • Compare costs and affordability
  • Understand the benefits and risks of using bank cards and digital technologies
  • Profit and loss
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  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access help.
  • Encourage your child to study at home
  • Use material on school website
/ Class test after topics
Investigate best deals
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  • Discuss all the income and expenditures
  • Learn the new vocabulary for wages slips
  • Fill in a wage slip

  • Explain how to budget and ways to save

  • Compare deals, such as mobile phones and gas/electricity contracts
/ Class test after topics
Learn how to construct bar graphs/picto graphs/line graphs and use the knowledge to display information /
  • Read data from the different graphs
  • Draw each graph using appropriate scales and headings
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  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access help.
  • Encourage your child to study at home
  • Use material on school website
/ Class test after topics
NUMERACY PROJECT
/ Block Test for topics covered so far
Learning Intention / Success Criteria / How can I help at home? / Assessment
Describe what a multiple, factor and primes are.
(attempted some from number pattern)
Level 3 Only /
  • Identify multiples, factors and primes
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  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access help.
  • Encourage your child to study at home
  • Use material on school website
/ Class test after topics
Understand why we use letters in maths to solve problems and solve simple equations
Level 3 Only
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  • Understand the importance of using letters to help solve equations
  • Solve simple algebraic equations
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  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access help.
  • Encourage your child to study at home
  • Use material on school website
/ Class test after topics
Describe attributes of an angle. Draw lines of symmetry. Plot points on a Cartesian diagram and apply skills of symmetry to plot points over a line of symmetry.
Level 3 Only /
  • Describe angles as acute, obtuse, reflex, straight, right
  • Draw angles accurately using a protractor
  • Complementary and supplementary angles
  • Compass points
  • Plot points on a Cartesian diagram
  • Line symmetry
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  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access help.
  • Encourage your child to study at home
  • Use material on school website
/ Class test after topics
Describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapesusing new mathematical vocabulary.
Level 3 Only /
  • Use mathematical language to describe the properties of “d and 3D shapes
  • Describe using words face, vertex, angle, diagonal, radius, diameter circumference
  • Calculate basic nets of cubes and cuboids
  • Know the radius is ½ the diameter
  • Draw circle with a compass
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  • Encourage your child to complete homework
  • Encourage your child to use their Glow account to access help.
  • Encourage your child to study at home
  • Use material on school website
/ Class test after topics
Block Test for work covered so far