Homerswood
Primary and Nursery School
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Mathematics
Mathematics at Homerswood
At Homerswood Primary and Nursery School, we believe that a good understanding of Mathematics is vital for every child's future.
Mathematics equips pupils with the uniquely powerful set of tools to understand and change the world. These tools include logical reasoning, problem solving skills and the ability to think in abstract ways.
Mathematics is important in every day life and is integral to all aspects of life.
With this in mind, we endeavor to ensure that children develop a healthy and enthusiastic attitude towards Mathematics that will stay with them forever.
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Maths at Homerswood
Autumn 2021
Mathematicians Ahoy! We are very excited to welcome you all back and look forward to an enjoyable term of maths learning. In classes we are starting the year with a focus on place value and feeling confident in manipulating numbers. Times Tables Rockstars and Numbots are supporting us in these skills - please remember to practise these at home, log ins are available from your child's class teacher. Don't forget to remind your child that they can challenge each other and the teachers..... if they are brave enough!
Look out for information about maths week later in the term and continue to check back here regularly for maths updates! 
Channel your inner rockstar and challenge your headteacher!
Maths Resources
16.12.2020 - A Massive Congratulations to our Superstar Times Table Rockstar - Freddie in Year 5. He recently scored a fantastic 61 correctly answered times tables in 60 seconds! Well done Freddie :) Who will dare to challenge him?
December 2020 - Have a go at solving these Christmas challenges........
Week Beginning 19.11.2020 - Year 4 exploring measurement outside
Week Beginning 19.10.2020 - Exploring Shape Outside
13.10.2020 - Maths Day Assembly - Congratulations to Ruby for winning the KS2 bingo
13.10.2020 - Maths Day Challenge - Congratulations to Aria, Katelyn and Bethany for estimating the number of sweets in the jars for KS1 and KS2
13.10.2020 - Whole School Celebrating Maths Day
10.03.2020 - Year 3 and 4 Motivating Maths Workshop - Hard at work, challenging themselves with a variety of problems to solve!
22.01.2020 - Pupils from Year 5 and Year 6 take part in a Motivating Maths Workshop. Great enthusiasm and team work! :)
24.10.19 - This member of Year 5 was very excited to share her Maths work that she is proud of. Something that she has found difficult but with perseverance she has over come, Well done!!
24.10.19 - Year 1 using part part whole models and confident verbal reasoning - Fantastic! Great questioning too!
16.10.19 - Every week Year 5 Practise their chef skills in preparation for the 'Young Chef of the Year' competition. Today they went to the local shops to buy some apples. They had to work out how many apples they needed to buy to ensure that each child could have half an apple. They also had to buy a range of apples from different countries. Lots of Maths skills used. Well done Year 5!! :)
16.10.19 - Confident number work understanding and recognising the number 5 from Reception. Great work! :)
16.10.19 - Celebrating Year 3 pupils' independent work on using the compensation method when subtracting 9 (minus 10 then add 1)
15.10.19 - Celebrating Maths Day
Wow! What a day we have had! Who knew that a box of Smarties could create such fun and engaging maths work. Throughout the school, all children have participated in a variety of maths activities. These ranged from organising a party, to researching and creating posters on famous Mathematicians and not to forget many smarties challenges; estimating, grouping, counting, symmetry etc. In some year groups they have been been solving calculations in french too! Great work from everyone!
15.10.19 - Celebrating Maths Day with fun Maths activities and SMARTIES!!
15.10.19 - Celebrating Maths Day! Even the teachers took part in working on Maths challenges and testing each other! :)
19.09.19 - Sharing Maths work on estimating. Great effort!! :)
09.09.19 - Sharing a piece of Maths work that he is proud of
11.05.18 - Year 2 working on finding quarter and three quarters - Great work and vocabulary used!!
May 2018 - Year 1 exploring capacity using vocabulary - full, half full, quarter full, three quarters full, empty
Year 3 visualising arrays using manipulatives to support with times tables
Math-Magician Club Day 7 - numbers on a calculator
Today the children were set a challenge by Mrs Bennett. They had the numbers 2 and 3, and then had x + - ÷ symbols. They had to work out how they could make 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 and so on. However, they could only use the symbols and the numbers given. The children had lots of fun and were challenged in their thinking. Well done Math-Magicians!! :)
Math-Magician Club Day 6 - Playing card calculations
Today we started with working on the Maths challenge. We had a great conversation about how we would work it out and what the possible answers could be. This was then displayed on the display in the hall. We (in groups) then laid out cards face down and took turns to turn three cards over and worked out whether we could make a calculation with any of them. If we could then we would win the cards. The aim is so have the most cards at the end. Some great discussions and mathematical thinking. Well done as always Mathemagicians!
Math-Magicians Club Day 5 - Cuisenaire Rods
Today we experimented with our brand new Cuisenaire rods. I set the children a challenge of asking the children to show me some maths using them. The children were really creative and thought outside the box. Year 6 in particular were using them for fractions and looking at larger numbers. Well done everyone!
Math-Magicians Day 4 - Pattern Day 2
Today we looked a different patterns in wiggly lines. We found lots of different shapes and patterns to make. Some of us looked at Pascal's Triangle and found patterns in numbers - we then explained them to a partner. 34 children now on the register - Excellent!!!! 
Math-Magician Club - Day 3
We now have 32 children on the register for Math-Magician Club - Well done everyone! This week we explored pattern and made different shapes out of square cards that have black lines on them. Some of us made squares; rectangles and we even extended ourselves to create a letter of the alphabet. Jack Jarvis made a 'J' out of the pattern cards. We decided 'S' was a very tricky letter to make. Miss Day came to visit our club too. Some of us had to sit with her to support her in her learning. We explained and taught her well.
Math-magicians Day 2 - Calculation Jigsaw
Day 2 of our Maths club. The children started the session where they answered a series of statements about the number 54 e.g write it in words, is it a composite or prime number, if the sequence was add 5 what would the next 3 numbers be etc. A great starter which got us talking about numbers immediately.
On to the challenge of the day....we had a pack of cards with a number and a mathematical symbol (= + - ÷ x) or just a number. The children had to make as many calculations with the cards as they could. Their challenge was to use all of the number cards in accurate number sentences. It was lots of fun! Well done to Rhyleigh in Year 4 who used all of his cards with correct calculations - excellent!
Maths in Reception
This week in reception the children have been exploring number bonds to 8 using spiders legs. Lots of exciting Maths learning and enthusiastic children. Well done Reception!
Math-magician club day 1 - Problem solving using playing cards
Day 1 of Maths club and the children were faced with a count down conundrum - seeing who could get the closest to 154 using only the numbers on the board (and using them only once). This was tough but the children persevered and found a variety of ways to meet the target - Excellent work! They then had to figure out my magic trick using the playing cards. The children were amazed and spent 15minutes of focused work trying to figure out the order of the cards. Some children came very close. A challenge has been set to see who can figure it out and show us next week....Good Luck The children were engaged and excited about the activity whilst using mathematical terminology and working with their peers. Well done to all math-magicians. See you next week!
Problem Solving Maths Day April 2017
Maths Newsletter Autumn Term 2016
Fluency Parent Workshop - 13th October 2016
We held a very successful workshop all about Maths Fluency for parents of children in Years 1 & 2. The feedback was 100% positive. Everyone who attended felt that they would change the way they help their child with maths in the future and 100% would recommend attending a future event.
We do plan to run this workshop again in January as an evening session, but in the meantime, the power-point is attached.
Fluency Parent Workshop Power-point
Homerswood Mathematics Curriculum
Click on a year group to understand what they will be learning in mathematics during the year.
Level 6 Maths Workshop - Tuesday 13th January 2015
On Tuesday 13th January 2015 three children from Year 6 went to St. Albans with Mrs Cropley and spent the entire day working on various elements of the Level 6 Curriculum. The workshop was really practical and covered volume, algebra, n-th term and data handling. It was a brilliant day and EVERYONE, (including Mrs Cropley,) took loads of methods, ideas and increased understanding away with them at the end of the day!
Bumble the Bubbly Maths Clown Workshops!
Level 6 Revision Day
Parent Addition & Subtraction Information Evening
On Thursday 6th March 2014 we held a maths information evening which focused on addition and subtraction. Parents of children from Year 1 through to Year 4 were invited to attend.
We had a full classroom of parents at the event, who all agreed that it was an informative evening, which gave useful information about methods that are currently used in class. Four teachers were at the event, giving parents the opportunity to talk with them after the session.
Please find above a link to the power-point that was shown during the evening.
Based on the positive feedback from the parents that attended, we now plan to run an event on multiplication and subtraction in the future.
Key Stage 2 World Maths Day 11th March 2014
Foundation and Key Stage 1 World Maths Day 12th March 2014
