Maths 

There are many opportunities to use Maths in everyday activities at home. Helping your child to learn their numbers will support their maths development at school.

• Counting Songs    
• Problem solving      
• Shapes & patterns

Maths ideas for rainy days

These activities help children learn about numbers:

• playing with a calculator
• using their own footprints cut out from newspaper to make a trail to the front door 
• making a birthday card for a friend and writing the number of their birthday on the card
• cutting out numbers in magazines and catalogues, looking for page numbers in books. 
• playing card games such as Snap
• sorting out and playing a game of dominoes 
• using a dice to play board games, such as Snakes and Ladders
• playing skittle games and keeping score.

Please click on the link below to view a booklet for parents on Braunstone Frith Primary School calculation methods.