Overcoming Barriers
Support, advice and identified learning targets across the mathematical strands to help children progress to level 2 in mathematics by the end of Year 2.
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Addition and subtraction facts
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to know addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20 and quickly derive all pairs of multiples of 5 that total 100.
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Calculating missing angles
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to calculate angles in a triangle and around a point, with key questions and suggested prompts.
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Calculating perimeters and areas of rectangles
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to find the perimeters and areas of rectangles by counting squares, and to begin to use the formula in words for the area of a rectangle.
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Calculating simple percentages of whole number quantities
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to find a percentage of a quantity by first finding 1%, then multiplying.
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Deriving pairs of numbers that total 100
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to derive pairs of numbers that total 100 and identify patterns and relationships.
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Expressing simple fractions as percentages
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to express percentages as simple fractions and simple fractions as percentages.
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Finding a fraction of a number or quantity
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to use a calculator to convert a fraction to its decimal equivalent and to find a fraction of a number or quantity.
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Identifying appropriate operations to solve word problems
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to identify and use appropriate operations (including combinations of operations) to solve word problems.
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Interpreting a calculator display when solving money problems
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to solve problems in context and to interpret a calculator display when solving problems.
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Interpreting data in bar charts and pie charts
Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to read scales to a suitable degree of accuracy and extract and interpret data from frequency tables, bar charts and pie charts.
