Broomhill Infant School

Applying Our Maths Skills

June 26, 2022

Building on from our successful maths day we have focused heavily on maths this week. It has been a fantastic week with the children taking full advantage of the opportunity to show off their confidence in both practical, oral and written maths skills. It was obvious this week how much time we had spent this year exploring mathematical graphics as when exploring zoo animal problems the children had no hesitation in choosing their preferred way to record their thinking. We were also lucky enough to use peer learning from reception which really helped to move our children on and enable them to challenge themselves to take the next step in their learning. Ensuring that all children had the opportunity to achieve we spent time familiarising the younger children with Numicon, something that is fundamental to the maths curriculum whilst ensuring that all activities were fun. practical and within the child’s interests. As usual they then continued the week’s theme into their play constantly calling staff over to show them numbers in the environment and explain a problem they had encountered in their play. Yet another fantastic week in Seedlings Class!