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
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
- 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
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)
- When shopping in the sales you could ask your child to work out what they will save on items
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
- Encourage your child to find the best deals in shops
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
- When shopping in the sales you could ask your child to work out what they will save on items
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
- When baking or cooking allow your child to measure out ingredients.
Tell the time and count on time. /
- Telling the time 12 and 24 hour
- Counting on time
- Mins-sec
- If possible give your child an analogue watch and encourage them to tell you the time.
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
- Playing cards
- Games with Dice like snakes and ladders
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
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
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
Use real life time tables to plan a journey.
Level 2 Only
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- Read bus/train timetables
- When using the bus or train ask if your child can find the next train on the timetable.
Using street directions to navigate a journey.
Level 2 Only
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- Describe a journey using straight ahead, left and right
- Encourage your child to tell you how to get to familiar places using the words turn right, left and straight on.
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
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
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
- 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
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
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
Block Test for work covered so far