Key Stage 1 Maths - how has your child been taught to add units, tens, hundreds

[ChasingSquirrels]

ds1 is in YR, but is a Sep birthday so already 5 and has pretty good number concepts.
He can add upto 9 (using his fingers once past about 5, in his head for 1-4) to pretty much any number, although he struggles over the thousands.
Before he started school I had started to explain about units, tens, hundreds and how you can add in columns, simply because he wanted to add bigger numbers and therefore needed a strategy to do so.
Obviously so far in YR he hasn't been doing anythink like this complicated, although I'm not sure what he will do after half term now they have assessed them.
Since doing the units, tens things with him - which I didn't follow up on, I have learnt that they don't do it like that any more, that you go accross the page and that this is meant to give a more conceptual understanding.
BUT - does it work, do kids who have learnt this method have a better understanding of numeracy etc. Is this being bourne out in SATS results of the older kids who have been through this system.
My mum (retired reception teacher) said that she thought numeracy teaching was bing overhauled from Sep 06, but the dirgov website referred to going accross the page.
I am unsure of what to do with ds as he wants to learn these things but I know that if I teahc him one way and it isn't the school way he won't listen to me - even though I think that having a range of strategies to deal with things can be more helpful.
Not quite sure where this thread is going, I just wanted some views on infant maths I suppose.

The school will teach him a number of different ways, because they are trying to ensure that children have a firm understanding of what the numbers represent etc. At the dcs school the vertical method of addition isn't taught unitl Yr3, though the teachers did seem to admit that once it is taught it is the most used method for addition over 100.

I don't think that you will be harming ds's education in any way by teaching him vertical addition, but be prepared for his homework to reflect other methods (eg that to add 9 or 19 it is easier to add 10 or 20 and then deduct 1). Good mental arithmetic requires more than one method if you think about it.

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Don't worry about teaching maths differently to the school, as a primary teacher my most frequently asked questions were "How did you work it out?" and "Did anyone do it differently?". It is good to find the way that works for you.

Vertical addiction is a very quick and useful written method, but does not help many children understand the concept of place value to begin with. It is also hard to carry numbers in your head. Those are the reasons it is taught later on, but for children who understand the concepts earlier I would say it was fine to introduce them to it.

I really believe numeracy is better taught now than thirty years ago, much less prescriptive method teaching and more concentration on individual understanding.

i tried a course, to help your child in maths.
did not like it but felt i was doing something

I was relieved to find our school taught addition and subtraction of units tens and hundreds in columns - just like I had done.

At my DS's (age nearly 8) school - they are only doing mental adding/subtracting etc.
To add 5+9 (they learn 5+10 take away 1)
6+6=12
6+16= 6+6+10
6+26 is 6+6 +20
and so on - he has picked it up really quickly - not sure how they are going to approach written down stuff yet.

I agree that there are lots of different methods being taught now, which is better than the 'one size fits all' way of doing things that I remember.
You should not worry about teaching your ds one particular method - he will be taught that method in school, eventually, but he will probably be taught several others before-hand.
What is important is that, in the end, he is happy with a method of adding up, whatever that method is.
He certainly sounds very good with numbers if he is doing column addition already.

Thanks for all the responses, this dropped off my list and I have only just come back to it.
We have got a couple of KS1 maths workbooks (that I got free a month or so following a link on here) that he found over half term and LOVES, so he is doing those - which from what I can gather follow the way numeracy is now taught.
I also spoke to his teacher at parents evening just before half term and today he had been doing written number work so hopefully she is going to be ensuring he is working to his level.
Thanks again for the responses.

I think that the leicestershire county council website has good help worksheets for maths. There are threads littered with the link, but unfortuantely I can'#t find it right now.

I'll have a search thanks, when I started this thread I would have said that there was no way I wanted him doing worksheets at home, but a couple of times last week he asked to do this maths workbook instead of having a bedtime story, so it's probably worth having some resources available.

here it is

thanks, I think I was just getting there...