DD needs help with Year 2 Numeracy, any games to play etc

[jenkel]

DD has an August birthday and school has always been a bit of a struggle, think confidence has a lot to do with it. Anyway, she came home Friday and said that she has now been moved to Year 1 numeracy as Year 2 is too hard, which I was horrified at (but didnt show it to her), spoke to her teacher this morning and she struggles to find the patterns in numeracy, I've been going through some of the maths workbooks that you can buy, I think we need to drip feed her numeracy whenever we can, does any one no of any board games, computer games etc that are good for numeracy.
Reading was a struggle before this so at home we have just been concentrating with Reading, so now need to switch to Numeracy.

I think you are on the right track-lots of Maths in everyday life so get her looking at timetables ,calendars for birthdays,recipes,Radio Times etc encourage playing schools with toys,snakes and Ladders and Ludo etc lots of good workbooks in Waterstones or Smiths -maybe start with one a year younger than she is so she gets some success and use stickers to encourage -little and often is the key.A dated but very good book is "Your Child can Be Top Of The Class" (don`t be put off by the silly title!)written by Richard Adams(?)BBC Bitesize will help ,Learning Ladder and you can get lots of free games etc on the Internet -try Coxhoe Durham site.The Supersticker site is good too ,they sell Nueracy games.Good luck

Also get some posters-£5 for 4 in libraries and bookshops -there is a 100 square with each 10 in a new colour,times tables,calendar,shapes,fractions etc

My DD Y1 teacher gave me a website that the school uses itcgames.co.uk this has helped my dd out a lot.

Some of the Orchard games are good including this one

We also have this which DS loved when he was a bit younger. Gets you to practice adding 1 digit numbers together, eg 5 + 3 = 8
Ds never realised he was doing numeracy when he played it

Agree with the Orchard games - but to be honest any board game with a dice would help. Howabout proper dominoes? Also making repetative patterns with pegs, beads etc, might help her recognise number patterns.

Understanding place value is key-many kids do much better when they do.Use pennies ,ten pences and pounds or draw on squared paper units (squares),tens(column of 10 units) and hundreds (10 x10 squares)

All great suggestions above...some websites with great activities are www.mathszone.co.uk and www.ictgames.co.uk, also if you want to go through some worksheets at home, try www.primaryresources.com. Also from the standards website, you can get some free ITP activities-google ITP KS1 maths or standards numeracy framework ITP and it will link you to them. Otherwise use maths in your everyday life, if you see a bus outside, add the numbers of the bus together (eg; bus 89, whats 8 add 9?), or talk about numbers when following a recipe, or make your dinner conversation focus on some problem solving to do with numbers. I find the more you make maths real for children, the better they get at it because they develop more interest in the subject. Let your child pay for something at the store and get the change, talk about why they got that amount of change. Talk about the time. I find time and change-money is the hardest topics to teach KS1 children as it is such a hard concept to pick up for little ones. Good luck...just try to make it more of a fun activity, so it does not seem so much like work, and hopefully maths will be fun!

Thanks for all your help, to show our ignorance, the teacher sent a note home in her diary to concentrate on number bonds, both me and dh had no idea what number bonds were and he has a computer science degree. We had to look on the internet to find out what they were. I think thats they key, to try to use Maths in everyday life. As I said before it was her reading but we appeared to have got somewhere with that, now over to Maths, I just hope we wont be playing catch up all her school life.

I'm just really worried about teaching her the wrong way, we have a parents eve next week so hopefully we will get a bit more time with the teacher and she can go through things with us, we normally get - she is fine, a pleasure to teach etc etc, or thats what we had in October so bit concerned that now she is apparently struggling. Have spoken to the teacher and said that we want to go through things in detail at the parents eve, thought that better than in the playground.

Try a free trial at 'Educationcity' Online
ring them and ask to try abit of year one stuff for maths and then a couple of days on year two level.
Look at 'coxhoedurham' primary they have fab curriculum link
Try 'crickweb' key stage 1 maths as this should give her confidence

www.sparklebox.co.uk/

www.ictgames.com/

www.brightminds.co. uk/sats-index.htm

www.emaths.co.uk/KS2SAT.htm

www.firstschoolyears.com/

http: //www.10ticks.co.uk/index.aspx

Maybe do brain warm up in car/on foot to school with off by heart stuff
2+2=4
3+3=6 etc
or you and she alternatel counting up in 2,3,4,5, 10s ...make sure you get it wrong more than she does as she will love this and then you have to go back to the beginning

Try the '5 minute Maths' etc series ..in Waterstones

Don[y worry about number bonds no-one over the age of about 8 has ever heard of them!

My dd is now a year 4 but is still struggling with basic mental maths. Tutpup.com which has a series of competitive maths games that you play against other kids (anonymously) over the internet has been a huge hit with her. We have finally cracked some of those basic number bonds and times tables

It has a clever set of medals etc. which keep her very motivated!

We use a lot of the Orchard games as pp said some of them are quite good. A few games for learning number bonds are: print off (or write out) the numbers and play pairs/snap/lotto. Put the numbers around the room and call out a number and get your lo to hop/jump/crawl to its partner. Take it in turns to make the funniest rhymes when out walking or busy with other things, for example 2 and 8 make a cake. Money is great for learning to add and subtract but also good for teaching 2,5 and 10 times tables. For example if your lo likes to play shops give her all 2ps and make everything cost a multiple of 2. She will soon pick up how many 2ps are needed for what price. Another board game we use is Switch 16, its for older children but if you keep to the simple rules all you have to do is add up the dots on the dice and see if you can make the number on your card.