Numeracy Workshop

Multiplication & Division

6th February 2014

Aims of Workshop

• To enhance knowledge of how Numeracy is taught at CGPS

• To understand some of the strategies used to develop children’s learning of multiplication and division at KS1

Numeracy in KS1

• Use vocabulary correctly

• Maths for a real purpose

• Concept building, practical activities, outdoor learning

• Maths is fun!

• Aware of the strategies they use to calculate

• More confident

Multiplication and Division introduction

• Year 2 Spring term

• Multiply by 2, 5 and 10 and extend to 3 and 4

•Concept building

• Moving towards learning times tables in Year 3

• Move towards linking to division and multiplication facts

Multiplication vocabulary

• X

• times • multiply

• repeated addition

• lots of

• arrays

Multiplication strategies

• Counting in sequences of 2, 5, 10

• Doubling another word for x 2 • Identify multiples

• Arrays, lots of

• Repeated addition

Division strategies

• Know that halving is the inverse of doubling

• Divide by sharing equally into groups

• Concept building

Thank you for listening!

Any questions?