Hi,
I wondered if any Scottish Primary School teachers could look at this and tell me how their Primary 2 teaching of numeracy compares with this list of the topics to be covered in year 2 in England? My sense is that Scotland teaches kids numeracy topics later, and I think this incredibly valuable, but I'd be glad to know whether I'm right in thinking this.
Here is the list of year 2 topics that I got from the book "Maths for Mums and Dads":
3 times table,
count backwards and forwards
place value - identifying tens and ones in two digit numbers
use this to solve problems
fluently add pairs of numbers totaling up to 20
figure out related calculations to 100
odd and even numbers
addition and multiplication can be done in any order
subtraction and division cannot
relationship between addition and subtraction, multiplication and division
Fractions: 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4 of lengths, shapes and collections of objects
Time: quarter past and quarter to, and five minute intervals.
Patterns, position, direction and movement.
quarter, half and three-quarter turns
Pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams, simple tables
asking questions about the data in these depictions.
This seems a lot to me. Ds is still getting his head around adding to 20, and not very speedily. I can't understand how they can hope to cover all this stuff. I know I only started fractions in year 2 and that was in an English school in the 80s.
Things were much better (slower) paced when I moved to Scotland and I wish I could get that for my ds too.
Does anyone know if the Scottish schools are also trying to cover all this stuff for year 2 kids?
Year 2 in England, btw, is kids who have only just turned 6 at the start of the year up to kids who will have already turned 7 in the first week of the year.
Thanks!