My 4 year olds homework??

[pollylocketpickedapocket]

This is my 4 year old homework. I need google to do it, seriously maths has changed since I was at school.

Is it possible your DD has run through all the shape work the teacher had in class and she grabbed an advance worksheet from another year just to make sure your DD had some extension work to do?

I think that’s a pretty advance worksheet for a 4 year old and probably beyond a significant number of parents to assist their children with. I think you’ve done a great job supporting your DD with it.

I’ve taught that content to Y1s so I think it’s only a year ahead. It all depends on what’s been taught in class ahead of the worksheet. If your child has no idea what it’s going on about then it’s not appropriate homework.
That said, this is one area of maths that hasn’t changed over the years! We definitely learned about 3D shapes back in the eighties (albeit not for that age group!). What’s changed is that we now have more ways to represent number problems, but that’s a completely different type of maths.

@Allthenumbers

That’s ridiculous and not appropriate for a reception child. I’m a teacher.

That's a ridiculous thing to say. My child is in reception and has been learning all this over lock down.

Imagine if the school never pushed your child to do well..@pollylocketpickedapocket

I'm sure this is reception curriculum as we did it during lockdown too. Our school doesn't set homework sheets like this though. Presumably it's the paper version of what they've done practically in class. Not saying it's right, but pretty sure all schools need to teach this in reception. All the technical terms they teach them do seem a bit much, hardly real world stuff - digraphs etc.

My son has been doing this since reception so i dont understand how it is on the year 2 curriculum.

My son has been doing this since reception so i dont understand how it is on the year 2 curriculum.

Because they teach in a spiral. You cover the content in increasing depth. Rather than sorting and manipulating, this child is expected to be familiar with all the terms and spout facts when he should still be exploring.

My comment would be 'Do you want Euler's Theorem as well?'.

It's ridiculous to expect a 4 year old to complete a 3-D task in 2-D, if you have Oxo-cubes, cans you could maybe discuss the terms but I wouldn't bother.