Year 1 maths

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Can anyone recommend an INTERESTING year 1 maths textbook. I want to understand how the numeracy stragery works and the weird logic behind it. I want to have a go at some of the problems so I can help my son to understand his Maths.

Ideally something as fun as Jolly Phonics.

I don't want anything like Kumon or death by work sheet.

'lomg' division is taught but not in the way tht you would hve been taught

if you search fir my name here will some where be a link tto maths help sheets for parents

as for borrowomg/carryomg - correct not taught til y5 BUT childre ARE taught to add and subtract the saje numbers in a different and in my opinion a way more sensuible way that they UNDERSYAND

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OK, am really confused and need to talk to DS's teacher now. Whilst I absolutely subscribe to teachers having different methods to teach children who struggle to understand, numbers just "make sense" to DS, and he instantly understood why column addition and subtraction work - so is he now going to be taught (and potentially confused) with some other method?

I know I have the book, but popscal if you don't mind could you explain how a year 1 child would a year 1 child be taught to do, for example, 109 + 12 - or wouldn't they do it at all?

Hi Stealth...a yr 1 wouldn't do this at all, yr 2 would. I've got a yr3 who is brill at maths and a yr 2 who is hopeless,..bless him.
I think the idea is that children are offered different ways to approach numeracy these days, so they can find one that suits.
So in this case.
they could split the 109 into 10+10+10 etc +9
or they could round up the 9 to 10 then take - 1
then + 10 +2
or they could +100's then tens then units
Vertical add + sub comes in yr 4 I believe but my ds1 found it really easy as well so has been using this method since yr2. I don't think it matters as long as they find a way they like, get the answer right ad can show how they got there.

Oops - I am not looking forward to seeing DS's Home School book this evening then since (at DS's request) I wrote a note to ask his teacher if he could do some similar sums at school.

Isn't "+100's then tens then units" (which is the only one of those methods which makes sense to me) the same as column addition, or am I missing something?

Many Thanks for the feedback, BTW - clearly IABU and had just not realised!

We are actively discouraged from teaching alternative methods (eg the traditional column algorithms). They do some long-winded chunking (ie add 100s, then add 10s, then add units, then add them all together) which is great in terms of teaching understanding but leaves lots of stages for errors to creep in.

109 + 12 would probably be broken down into either 109 + 10 + 2, or 100 + 10 = 110, 9 + 2 = 11, 110 + 11 = 121.

singersgirl it is a private school so I am hoping they can accomodate the fact that the "old-fashioned" (and simplest, IMHO) method works for DS.... time will tell, I guess!

I agree. What I found with DS1 (9 and in Y5) is that he did the chunking and adding separately methods for so long that he was really unwilling to learn carrying /borrowing - which of course is much faster and frees you up to solve problems. He is OK with it now, though.

Just wanted to say what a fab site Rainforest Maths is. Just been on it with 7yr old ds and 4 yr old dd.