What should I do?

[fiskalita]

DD year 2, aged 6, just had parents evening.

She's doing great in every way but working a bit below expectations in maths. The teacher says her arithmetic is solid but she finds more complex questions difficult to follow. When she understands the task she can do it.

I asked if we should do any tutoring as teaching anything is a bit beyond me but the teacher was non committal and said don't pressure her in any way.

So should I just relax? And see how rest of year and year 3 goes? Or should I do something and if so what?

Any advice very gratefully received.

I wouldn’t jump straight to tutor, especially not at this age. She might just need a bit more practice - little but often - which you can totally support regardless of your own teaching ability, and which would be way more effective than a tutor once a week anyways.

Ideally you could slip it in to real life scenarios where it won’t even feel like work- baking or cooking provides lots opportunities while also teaching an important life skill, the commute to school (it’s x miles to school and we have gone y, so how many more), how many people at the party if there are x children and x adults, etc. if you struggle with ideas you could also get some y2 workbooks on word problems and do one a day.

Y2 dont have to do sats anymore but you could work through some past papers with her. They have a reasoning paper.
Or cgp books.

I use Cgp “10 minutes a week maths” workbook. It lets me know where DC is struggling… like your DC quite often it’s with the wordy questions. So I spend time going over this area and giving more examples. You can buy many workbooks from them that zone in on a problem area (e.g mental maths, shapes etc)
if your DC is behind/average in reading definitely focus on this too.

Thanks! I'll check out CPG books