Teaching mental mathematics from level 5: Number

Publication date:

Oct 2009

DCSF ref:

00691-2009PDF-EN-01

Audience:

ITT (initial teacher training) tutors, ITT student, National Strategies consultant, NQT (newly qualified teacher), Subject leader, Teacher

Function:

Guidance, Key messages, Lesson resources, Progression, Teaching and learning

Format:

Booklet

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A booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond level 5, covering place value, ordering and rounding, fractions, decimals, percentages, and ratio and proportion. Includes activities that target some aspects of number which pupils continue to find difficult.

Planning sequences of lessons to include these types of activities will:

• enable pupils to understand at which stage it is appropriate to round numbers and how to do so in different contexts
• reinforce pupils' understanding of fractions, to support them when they calculate with fractions
• develop pupils' understanding of percentages so that they can confidently find percentages of quantities
• express one quantity as a percentage of another and increase or decrease a quantity by a percentage
• develop pupils' understanding of the role of multiplication in proportional reasoning.

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