What's a Y2 maths assessment? Dd came out of school in tears as couldn't do any of it ...

[souvenir]

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These are end of year 1 obectives:

nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/strands/34759/34266/110210%2C110211%2C110212%2C110213%2C110 214%2C110215%2C110216

Hope it works!

Souvenir, a maths test at the beginning of Y2 can only really be assessing basic understanding of place value, the order of numbers, shapes and perhaps a knowledge of odd/even numbers. Maybe 2x and 10x tables.

I'm teaching Y3 this year so this is my best guess.

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Noidea, that is appalling. Utterly shocking and NOT indicitive of what usually happens in an infant classroom.

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I also agree with Feenie et al, that no child should be getting distressed about start of term assessments. Yes, there are to some to do, but most can be made fun. There is no need to give a child who has just moved up from year 1, a maths test lasting 2 days. Ridiculous. I have no idea what that is aiming to achieve.

I would strongly advise you to go in tomorrow and ask what the assessment was. Try to get the teacher to show you DD's paper then come back and tell us what it was. It may, of course, be her own paper.

If you can find out the type of questions, the teachers on here can help you help your DD. Poor girl! Her confidence must be low. What a way to start the year!

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Souvenir, it is perfectly reasonable for you to go in and ask about an assessment that upset your child so much.

On the other thread on here about Y2 maths homework I wrote out a simple idea for helping with place value. This is really useful and I use it with my Y1 DS.

Also, download a hundred square. If you google it, one will come up. This will help your DD with place value. Look at the order of the numbers and how all the numbers with 7 in the units are in one column etc. It's a really useful tool. You can also do little exercises with it such as, 'find me a number with 5 in the units? Now one with 5 in the tens? Use the exercise I mention on the opther thread to show that the 5 in 54 is different to the 5 in 75.
HTH

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souvenir - google what is in the yr2 maths assessment . First link should be a We Learn Teacher Asssessment website which has some yr 2 maths assess sheets you can look at .

Also have you tried going on the bbcbitesize keystage 1 website .It will give you an idea of what Maths skills they use at that age . My DD loves the games and likes to play them with me as well as on her own .

To help her?
-Tell her it doesn't matter. tell her they are just so the teacher can make sure she has the correct work for the rest of the year. Tell her nobody thinks bad of her. Oh and if possible, tell her you are going to treat her for trying her best. Emphasise that that is the important thing.

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Excellent advice BuckRogers . I hate the pressure put on young children .As a parent though ,I feel the pressure to know what it is that my child should know .You just can`t win!

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That sound far too advanced to me. Perhaps a teacher will come along and advise you on this.

I usually bought the key stage books especially in maths. Bought them before the Sats test so that DD could do some practise at home. Better idea to have them at the start of the year. Of course we didn't have so much on the internet in those days but I like to see things in black and white and order so you know how much they are expected to learn. IYSWIM

Part of the problem may be that she is being given a test to assess her knowledge of what she should (ideally ) know at the end of y2, rather than what she should know at the end of Y1. After all, she has until next May/June to learn whatever she needs to know for KS1 assessments, so cannot possibly be expected to know it all now. In our school, when we assess at the start of the school year, we always use papers set for the end of the year they have just finished. Gives a much fairer idea of where they are. A poor score on a test for the end of current year does not mean she can't do the maths, it may just be that she is unfamiliar with some of the language used, since ver time, the language used to teach maths becomes more formal.

If you want to find stuff to do at home, this and thisare good places to look for free printables etc.

81-50 is the sort of calculation I used to do outside.
We put on our imaginary 10 league boots and take giant strides along a line, counting backwards in 10s.
So, boots on.
How many steps will make 50? 5 steps.
Put up 5 fingers to represent the 50 you are taking away.
81, 71, 61, 51, 41 31 ( Putting down a finger for each step)

Then we moved onto using a blank number line and drawing the steps as 5 curved lines, marking the landing points as we go.

Then a lot of practice with 100 squares, number lines and the rest.

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Good because those tests sounded scary for the first week back. Hope your DD settles in OK.

I haven't heard of this. I'm sure someone else will know more.

I do recommend the good old fashioned books that you can buy for about a fiver in WH Smith though. We found them very useful.

Education City is good - we have a subscription at our school set up so that parents can access it at home.

ICT games is brilliant - I used it a lot in Year 2.