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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.
Making decisions about which operation to use

Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to decide which operation to use when solving word problems across the four operations.
Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 1 to 2

These materials are designed to help you ensure that as many children as possible progress to level 2 in mathematics by the end of Year 2.
- Calculating
  
  This is the first strand of Overcoming barriers - helping children move from level 1 to level 2.
- Counting and understanding numbers
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including counting, ordering and partitioning two-digit numbers, and rounding two-digit numbers to the nearest 10. This information is part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 1 to 2’.
- Knowing and using number facts
  
  This is the fourth strand of Overcoming barriers – helping children move from level 1 to level 2.
- Understanding shape
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including naming and describing 2-D and 3-D shapes, and sorting shapes by similarities and differences. This information is part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 1 to 2’.
  - Name and describe 2-D and 3-D shapes
  - Use similarities and differences between shapes to sort them into sets
- Measuring
  
  This is the fifth strand of Overcoming barriers - helping children move from level 1 to level 2.
Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3

These materials are designed to help you ensure that as many children as possible progress to level 3 in mathematics by the end of Year 4. The materials address key areas of mathematics that commonly present barriers to learning for children working towards level 3. They provide support and advice on teaching approaches designed to help children overcome these barriers.
- Calculating
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including subtraction as the inverse of addition, multiplication by 10 and 100 and recording mathematical methods. This is part of 'Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3'.
- Handling data
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including creating and interpreting bar charts, pictograms and making and using lists and tables of data. These activities are part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3’.
- Counting and understanding numbers
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including rounding up, decimal notation, reading and writing fractions, and ordering numbers on a number line. This information is part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3’.
- Knowing and using number facts
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including recalling and using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts for numbers and times-tables. This information is part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3’.
- Understanding shape
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including making, naming and describing 2-D and 3-D shapes, and sorting shapes using their own criteria. This information is part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3’.
  - Make, name and describe 2-D and 3-D shapes
  - Sort shapes, choosing my own criteria
- Measuring
  
  These lesson activities, questions and vocabulary lists can help children to understand mathematical concepts they find difficult, including the relationship between weights, scale on a number line and digital and analogue time. This information is part of ‘Overcoming barriers in mathematics: Helping children move from level 2 to 3’.
Place value and ordering three-digit numbers

Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to interpret the value of a digit in a three-digit number and to order numbers 0 to 1000 in relation to landmark multiples.
Planning the teaching and learning of mathematics using Overcoming barriers in mathematics – helping children move from level 1 to level 2

Planning the teaching and learning of mathematics using Overcoming barriers in mathematics – helping children move from level 1 to level 21. Introduction to the materials2. The structure of the materials3. Getting started – targeting children 4. Planning from and using the materialsa. Using the materials – Year 2 teacher and teaching assistantb. Using the materials – teaching assistant and an individual child
- Planning the teaching and learning of mathematics using Overcoming barriers in mathematics – helping children move from level 1 to level 2
  
  Planning the teaching and learning of mathematics using Overcoming barriers in mathematics – helping children move from level 1 to level 21. Introduction to the materials2. The structure of the materials3. Getting started – targeting children 4. Planning from and using the materialsa. Using the materials – Year 2 teacher and teaching assistantb. Using the materials – teaching assistant and an individual child
Reading the time on analogue and digital clocks

Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to read the time to five minutes on an analogue and a 12-hour digital clock and use the notation 9.40.
Recognising and using unit fractions to find fractions of numbers

Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to recognise unit fractions such as ½, ¼ and 1/10 and use them to find fractions of numbers.
Subtraction by counting on from the smaller number

Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to find a small difference by counting on from the smaller to the larger number, and apply this to compare lengths of objects.
Understanding division and multiplication

Ideas for planning and teaching guided activities to enable children to understand division as grouping.

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