Y2 maths

[saragrey]

What are your Y2 children doing in maths at the moment? Have looked up info on internet about what they are meant to do, bu thte more I read about it, the more confused I get!

mrz - do you expect all children in your class to do decimals? My ds wouldn't even know what a decimal was if it stared him in the face!

We have just begun decimals so have just covered 0.1 - 0-9 the most able can do simple addition involving decimals.

Looking at the reams of info I've printed I can see fractions mentioned for level 2 for year 2, but not decimals. Is that right, or am I looking at the wrong thing? Should I work on them at home if they're not doing them at school?

Dd is only doing them in context of £ - £1.50 etc - if that helps. It mightbe an extension activity. I would just ask the teacher what you could do at home to support dc's learning.

That would be the best idea - I am probably wasting my time!! Will arrange a meeting on monday.

DS has done empty number lines and written maths questions lately - the sort where there are 3 sums in the question iyswim. Also multipication, fractions, division and money including some decimels. I don't think he's particulary advanced in maths (2A at last parents evening about 2 months ago) I guess considering they are working at level 2 theres a lot to cover and they do it over the year in different orders? So what some have done others will be doing soon if that makes sense?

No saragrey it isn't a standard thing in most schools just something we have introduced to help our children with basic maths skills so that hopefully none leave us feeling afraid of maths.

There is a huge range in DDs class between children who are still struggling with number bonds for numbers to 20 and the top end of the class who are doing fractions, decimals, angles and Venn diagrams.