I just want to get an idea of what sort of topics are being covered.
It's come to light recently that a lot of children in my dd's Year 5 class are bored in Maths and not learning anything new. There is no differentiation what they learn so the most able are doing the same work as the ones struggling with Maths.
A lot of the children in the class will be sitting exams for the local consortium schools and generally the questions on the practice papers are much harder than topics covered in class.
Dd tells me they have recently been working on place number and different ways of multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. It all seems very basic. They have done very little on fractions - adding, multiplying etc.
I am actually very worried/cross about the situation but don't really know what do to. The consortium exams are on 7th September, not long away at all. The class had a poor year last year with a newly-qualified teacher who couldn't keep control. Year 5 is such an important year and I (and other parents) feel they are not receiving a good education.
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What is your Year 5 child doing in Maths?
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Dancergirl · 01/05/2013 14:27
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