This document provides information for parents on how to support their child in mathematics. It outlines the key skills taught in year 2 such as number pairs, place value, and the four operations. It discusses assessing pupil progress through formative and summative assessments. Finally, it provides strategies for skills like counting, using a hundreds chart, and solving word problems as well as sharing example activities for parents to do with their child.

1. How to Support
Your Child in
Mathematics
October 2013

2. Success WILF is …
• To inform you of what we teach
• To share our methods
• To equip you with strategies so that
you can support your child

3. Assessing Pupil Progress
• Assessment for Learning: formative and
summative
• National / Dobcroft averages / rates of
progress
• End of KS1

4. Key Skills
• Knowledge and speedy recall of number
pairs up to 10, 20, 100
• Understanding Place Value: the value of
each digit in a number
• Understanding and applying the 4
operations of number
+ - X

5. Number Pairs
• Secure knowledge and recall of the number
pairs
up to 10 and 20 is crucial for quick
calculations
2 + 8 = 10 2 + 18 = 20
12 + 8 = 20
8 + 2 = 10 8 + 12 = 20
18 + 2 = 20
• These help with calculation and also speed up
calculations of two and three digit numbers e.g.
6 + 4 = 10 16 + 4 = 20 26 + 24 = 50 136 + 24 = 160

6. Secure Accurate Counting
• In Year 2, children continue to use number
lines and hundred squares – accurate
counting on and counting back is crucial
for accurate answers.
• Understanding number lines helps
children to use scales

7. Navigating the 100 Square
• Key vocabulary: column, row, tens, ones,
digit, add, subtract …
• Spotting and using patterns in a 100
square
• Navigating efficiently to support
calculations involving higher numbers

8. to solve real life mathematical
problems
Sam has 6 marbles.
Her sister has twice as many and her friend has 4.
How many marbles do they have altogether?
RUCSAC
Read
Underline
Calculation?
Solve
Answer
Check

9. Shape, Space, Measures
Data Handling
Time:
Read the time on digital and analogue clocks,
identify time intervals,
Use seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks and know the relationships between them,
know the months of the year
Measuring using standard and non -standard units:
Estimate, measure and compare capacities, length and weight
Understanding Shapes:
Recognise whole, half and quarter turns, recognise that a right angle is a quarter turn,
Know the properties of 3D and 2D shapes,
Identify reflective symmetry in patterns and 2-d shapes and draw lines of symmetry
Organising and using data:
Answer a question by collecting and recording data, and representing results as block graphs
and pictograms
Use lists, tables and diagrams to sort objects; explain choices using appropriate language,
including ‘not’

10. Language of Maths
Subtraction Take away More than
Value Digit Less than
Multiples Place value Array
Addition Between Share
Divide Inverse Operation
Total Double Difference

11. Your Turn!
3 activity stations
+ and - using number lines: Class 7 Owl
parents
Multiplication arrays: Class 8 Bear parents
Place value: Class 9 Fox parents
To finish:
Look at the Level 2 and level 3 SATs questions in
the Foxes class.