Maths support/resources for Y5

[christinarossetti19]

My ds has always been good at maths - always assessed as 'exceeding expectations'.

His class has had a chaotic year with teachers and he's now 'very behind'. He has definitely lost a lot of confidence this year and approaches any maths questions with a 'I can't do it' frame of mind.

I've spoken to the school about this and am not desperately keen on their solution of insisting that he attends lots of after school 'booster' classes in Y6, not least because he does a lot of extra curricular music which he enjoys and is good at and I don't see the value of him stopping this.

Can anyone recommend some resources for me to work through with him at home please? His school have restarted Mathletics, which he does and enjoys, but it's not the same as sitting down with a piece of paper and working out long division etc.

TIA

parallel.org.uk/

It's for yr7+, but my dc has been doing it since yr4. Great out of box maths to encourage able children.

Thanks, but his current attainment is 'very behind'.

I was looking more for resources that support the Y5 curriculum so that I can see what gaps he has and help fill them.

If you want to check out what the gap might be, this site may help.

It's really tedious and repetitive, but it follows the NC and covers everything and you can pick and choose topics easily.
It's a paid site, but you can practice few questions a day for free. And if you subscribe( around 5 pounds a month for one subject) you can get access to all the years up to yr13. We have been using it since yr2, and very happy with the content.

uk.ixl.com/math/year-5

Thanks - that looks more useful at the moment.

www.themathsfactor.com/

We used mathsfactor for similar reasons though started a bit younger and have been really pleased with the results.

We switch to IXL after mathsfactor just so they do some maths a day but I don't think it's as good.

www.khanacademy.org/ is free might be worth a look.

www.mymaths.co.uk/ - mine get this through their secondary school and it's good - they do have a primary section.

Mine didn't like conquermaths but other on here have used it and think it's good.

Personally I would go for non-online resources where he has to sit down and work on paper. CPG has been very good for us - this is the year 5 textbook - split in to major topics then subsections with 3 sets of questions of increasing difficulty plus reviews every few subsections. I would work through that with him. CPG also have lots of other maths books to help support him.

We also find Schofield & Sims helpful, you can get various specific workbooks for each of the major topics (e.g. fractions/decimals/percentages or this one which covers KS2.

Thanks. I agree about the benefits of paper and pencil, but I think I'll start with one of the online programmes as he'll enjoy this more and mistakes 'disappear' when you go on to the next page.

There are catch up Programs for Maths in each year group called springboard which you should be able to download. I used them in yr 5 and 6. Mathsphere is another great site which you can download some packs for free and with paid subscription can download all packs. We also use Mathsframe and Mathletics

Might it help build his confidence if you went back over some year 4 level work that he was comfortable doing? Just to show him that he can do it and then build in the year 5 work in the same topic?

Doodlemaths is good for taking a child through the curriculum at their own pace - it adapts depending how well they’re doing. It’s an app, so it does depend on you having a table or phone that you are happy for you child to use, though.