Quick question as I write a long email to the school

[Someonepassthegin1991]

This is not regarding current homeschooling as mine has been off since March.
How as a teacher do you teach children to add up to 10

So say you were teaching using the sum 6 + 2.

Not as you would teach it home as a parent but specifically how it’s taught in schools ?

Use whatever white rose maths say! They use number bonds, and the children learn them.

You're really emailing the school sbout this?

Fucking hell! Google number bonds

Don't email the teacher to ask this FFS

Use a number line. Find the biggest number and count on.

Or use numicon - put the six and two together and count the total.

Using a number line, or a string of beads, or dienes (sp?) cubes? You could use Lego blocks or something?

I am not emailing the teacher to ask her this 😅I’m not emailing the teacher at all ! I’m asking how it is taught before I add some complaints in to my email for LA.

Fingers
Lego/unifix blocks
Number lines
Counting on from the biggest number

There are a number of ways it would be taught, using objects, pictorial references, counting on etc. It would depend on the age and stage of the child.

I assume you can't be writing to the school about this. At any rate I can't see how it would merit a long email.

I've 3 dc, they've all done various combinations of number lines, cubes, fingers, computer games and learning number bonds.
It doesn't really matter how you teach it as long as they understand and learn them.

It was all number lines at my children’s primary.
But backed up by more rote learning of pair bonds too - 10,0 / 9,1 / 8,2
Back in my own school days there was a LOT of physical wooden block lining up!

@Witchend no the email is about various things not just this.

With respect, I imagine this has been a horrendous week for teachers, particularly primary and they are struggling to suddenly put things in place for online teaching when Gavin Williamson/Boris Johnson have repeatedly insisted that schools will remain open.

I don't think your need to teach a child how to add up to ten is a massive priority at this moment. If they've been off since March what's the sudden urgency? Does it have to be this week?

What are you complaining about?

Look for YouTube videos

@NovemberR it’s not about this week / current lockdown at all.
It’s about a whole year.

I teach as American system to mine of mental maths. I can send you a link to a book on Amazon. You read it aloud and they learn it.
The first chapter is to teach them the concept of zero, nothing, all gone etc and they do this through a combination of visual ie place a glass on the table and then put it in the cupboard how many glasses on the table? Put 4 pens and 4 pencils on the table and then take all the pencils and put them in your bag and ask how many pencils on the table? Likewise driving a car on the drive etc

Chapter 2 is to count forward, back, forward , back and then up in even and then odd back and forward even and then odd etc

You can’t add until you can count. The system does ten minutes a day.

All verbal. Abs in your head and number and word problems. But you need to learn what a number is and then how to count.

It must work as DC1 got a level 9 at gcse in year 8 and currently doing a level (year 9) and others are similar. They have a ridiculous understanding of numbers being a language. I’m a maths teacher though and we speak it as a language.

Loads of different options, not just one set way. Probably using a mix of concrete and visual methods, combined with more traditional methods. There is no wrong way, just what works for the children at the time.

You know 6 + 2 isn't 10 right?

@NovemberR she can count up to 10, it’s not an urgency it’s one point of many that leads up to an urgency.

Thanks for the responses to the questions just wanted to confirm appropriate teaching methods,

White Rose Maths ..lessons online
www.parenthub.co.uk/understanding-the-curriculum-resources-for-parents/
That took me less than a minute on google and you've waited since March.

If your kids have been off since march, are school age and don't know their number bonds I'd say you're at fault there op.

How on earth does it matter how they are taught

Are you talking reception or Y1?

Get ten things and organize them into two different groups. Eg one group of three and one of seven.
Count the groups and wrote the numbers down. "3", "7" Count all of the things again, "10". Write a sum. Repeat for other combinations.
Use a "ten square" and ten identical coins. Randomly tip out coins and organize on ten-square according to the side they landed on. Eg 4 heads and 6 tails = ten altogether.

Everything that has already been said plus tell them to put six in their head and then count on by two.