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Family Learning Activities – East Ayrshire Numeracy and Mathematics

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Family Learning Activities – East Ayrshire Numeracy and Mathematics

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This section provides information and links to help parents, families and children enjoy maths activities together.

East Ayrshire Parental Engagement Pack
East Ayrshire Parental Engagement Pack - Numeracy
The East Ayrshire SAC team developed a parental engagement pack with a range of activities to support family learning in numeracy and maths

Maths Through Stories Family Activities

The SAC Numeracy Team have developed a range of activities for parents and children linked to the theme of a story. The activities provide an opportunity investigate the maths within and based on the theme of a story.
Maths in the Outdoors
Maths Through Stories Parent and Child Activity
Outdoor Maths Activities for Parents and Children
The following link provides ideas for parents to engage children in maths activity when in the outdoors:

East Ayrshire Home Learning Hub

East Ayrshire Home Learning Hub has been developed by the Families and Communities team to support family learning across the curriculum. You will find links to numeracy activities here.
Family Literacy and Youth Literacy Video Links
Family Literacy and Youth Literacy Videos

The East Ayrshire Family and Youth Literacy Team have created a number of videos showcasing some great ideas used by the team to engage families in numeracy and literacy learning.

Numeracy Strategies for Parents
Numeracy Strategies for Parents/Carers
The link below takes you to a series of videos have been created to share some of the approaches to teaching and learning in numeracy, calculation strategies and terminology currently being developed across schools in East Ayrshire.

The National Numeracy website have developed a Family Maths Toolkit to support family learning in numeracy and maths. There are a range of activities here with a focus on where maths can be found in everyday life.
Learning Together Sessions
Education Scotland have provided support for parents and carers in numeracy and mathematics in their Scotland Learns - Numeracy and Mathematics site.

The videos provide support for parents and carers supporting their childrens learning in numeracy and mathematics.

The Parentzone - supporting numeracy site provides a number of links and activities to support family learning in numeracy.
NRICH Solving Together
The National Centre in the Teaching of Mathematics have created a site Support for Parents and Carers Helping Children with Maths This site provides links to activities and lessons.
Erikson Early Math - Family Maths
Solving Together is an exciting project, funded by Nesta and Tata, which aims to promote parental engagement with mathematics. This project focuses on family-friendly homework activities for age 11-12 students. We suggest that parents/carers and their children work together on one activity each week, over a six week period. Parents and carers may wish to watch the Guidance for Parents video before trying out the activities with children.
The Guidance for Teachers explains the thinking behind this project, and offers suggestions for how to follow up the homework activities in class.
Maths Snacks Videos
The Erikson Early Math Collaborative have provided links to resources and activities to support family learning focussed on early level numeracy and maths. A great site for supporting Early Level maths development.

ATM experts are sharing ideas through Maths Snacks videos, to support children and parents whilst children are away from school for whatever reason. The videos are a mix of tasks, puzzles, challenges and games; selected to support and enrich mathematics taught at school.
Many videos can be accessed by very young children, with a little bit of adult support, and all are relevant to pupils across the school age range. There's hardly ever a single right answer and there are many ways of working on tasks. The videos are designed to entice and to focus on working in the ways mathematicians do; such as exploring situations, looking for patterns and rules, asking questions and seeking answers, and trying out and testing ideas.

Kentucky Family Math is a site dedicated to supporting family learning in maths and has a range of activities that are engaging for parents, carers and children.

Bedtime Math is an app that provides daily maths activities linked to a bedtime story. A lovely way for parents, carers and children to develop literacy and numeracy skills together.

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This section provides information and links to help parents, families and children enjoy maths activities together. East Ayrshire Parental Engagement Pack East Ayrshire Parental Engagement Pack - Numeracy The East Ayrshire SAC team developed a parental engagement pack with a range of activities to support family learning in numeracy and maths Maths Through Stories Family Activities The SAC Numeracy Team have developed a range of activities for parents and children linked to the theme of a story.

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THE LITTLE BOOK - to support transition into Primary 1 - North Ayrshire Council

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Little book to support transition into p1

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‘Learning Together’ – Online Numeracy and Maths sessions for parents to support Learning at Home 

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We know that parents are working hard to balance the challenges of Covid-19 and whilst we are not expected to be teachers, our support in promoting and engaging our children in their learning, continues to be of great importance. We are also aware that when supporting learning at home, many parents report that they find maths a particular challenge. Parents have highlighted that they often lack confidence with numeracy and mathematics, perhaps as a result of their own experiences at school, or as a result of children learning maths in ways that may differ from how they remember being taught.

Whatever our confidence level is - numeracy and mathematics continues to be very important to our daily lives, whether that's managing money, baking or sports.

The NPFS is working in partnership with 'Count On Us' with the Support of Education Scotland to bring 8 online numeracy and mathematics events for parents in June 2020. These 'Learning Together' sessions will focus on the use of interactive and visual methods to help you and your child confidently engage with numeracy and mathematics problems, whilst supporting learning at home.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "This initiative from the National Parent Forum Scotland perfectly captures the leadership and creativity of our education partnerships in Scotland and I am pleased to see it introduced.

"This approach brings to life the key themes of our Learning Together report on parental engagement and our Making Maths Count report produced by the National Profile-Raising Group on Mathematics."

These free events are intended for parents with children currently working at First level: Primary 2 - 4 (P2, P3, P4) or Second level: Primary 5 -7 (P5, P6, P7) numeracy and mathematics, as outlined within Curriculum for Excellence (CfE). The content of each session has been produced in consultation with Education Scotland to complement the wide range of learning activities, provided by local authorities and schools during this current context. The sessions will cover themes that are explored within CfE across the age ranges of five and twelve years of age. However, as children move through levels at their own developmental pace, parents with children currently outwith this age range may also find the session beneficial and are also invited to attend.

Each session will be delivered by Chris McKenna, founder and Director of 'Count On Us' Education. Chris has been involved in maths education in a variety of roles including Principal Teacher of Maths and as a Lead Numeracy Development officer at South Ayrshire Council. 'Count On Us' have worked with most local authorities in Scotland and have engaged with over 300 schools delivering educational support for learners, teachers and parents with overwhelmingly positive feedback. You can find out more about Count On Us on their website: https://www.countonus.org.uk

The themes, dates and times, and sign up links for the session are as follows:
2. 3. 4. June '20 10am- 10.45am Theme: Fractions, Decimal Fractions & Percentages (Part 1 of 3) 5. 18thJune '20 10am- 10.45am Theme: Fractions, Decimal Fractions & Percentages (Part 2 of 3) 6. June '20 10am- 10.45am Theme: Fractions, Decimal Fractions & Percentages (Part 3 of 3) 7. 23rdJune '20 10am- 10.45am Theme: Algebra Theme: Problem Solving & Word Problems using Bar Modelling Approach 11thJune '20 10am- 10.45am Theme: Multiplication and Division Parent Club Scotland Education Scotland's 'Scotland Learns' June '20 10am- 10.45am Theme: Addition and Subtraction
Missed a session? - Visit our Youtube

All of the sessions are uploaded to the NPFS youtube channel shortly afterwards. You can find them all in our playlist here.

For further information and support with learning at home and maths resources visit:

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'Learning Together' - Online Numeracy and Maths sessions for parents to support Learning at Home

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We know that parents are working hard to balance the challenges of Covid-19 and whilst we are not expected to be teachers, our support in promoting and engaging our children in their learning, continues to be of great importance. We are also aware that when supporting learning at home, many parents report that they find maths a particular challenge.

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How might you introduce very young children to mathematical ideas?

Everyday contexts provide you with plenty of opportunities

Engaging activities for you and your children to explore together at home, designed to develop their mathematical thinking

Engaging activities for you to explore together with your children, designed to develop their mathematical thinking

Activities and resources that you might want to discuss with your older children at home, which introduce them to the world of higher mathematics

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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Higher Mathematics – National Parent Forum of Scotland

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Higher Mathematics – National Parent Forum of Scotland

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Our Nutshell Series gives the key facts about National Qualifications. In this document you'll find our about Higher Mathematics including the details of course assessment. The nutshell will explain what your child will learn in the course and what his or her experience will be.

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Our Nutshell Series gives the key facts about National Qualifications. In this document you'll find our about Higher Mathematics including the details of course assessment. The nutshell will explain what your child will learn in the course and what his or her experience will be.

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Family Math Resources – Young Mathematicians 

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Family Math refers to activities that happen within the context of family relationships, the community, and everyday life that support young children and families to strengthen their math awareness, understanding, and confidence. Families can support their children's math learning in fun easy ways, by playing math games, playing with puzzles, even sorting the laundry!

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Help your child be epic at maths - CBeebies - BBC

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Help your child be epic at maths - CBeebies - BBC

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Numberblocks - Help your child be epic at maths

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Give your child a head start in Maths: everything parents need to know about Numeracy development from 0-6 with fun activities you can build into everyday life and play

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Empowering parents to support their children's maths understanding

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Empowering parents to support their children's maths understanding

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Project overview

This project aimed to develop methods for empowering parents to reflect upon and share their uses of mathematics in everyday life, so they can support their children's mathematics learning.

Findings:

There is great potential in children's home and family life for activity to support children's mathematics learning. An understanding of ways in which mathematics is used out-of-school can help improve children's attitudes towards mathematics and to help children understand the value and relevance of mathematics in a variety of contexts.

Parents and the wider family should be encouraged to explore the mathematics that is involved in family life and activity, and to share this mathematics with children. Children need regular support in order to recognise the mathematics in the world around them, and parents are often the best people to provide this support.

Schools should be encouraged to engage with parents in ways that value parents' existing knowledge and skills. An emphasis on classroom mathematics content and methods can discourage parents from supporting children's mathematics learning.

Parents do not need extensive mathematical knowledge to support their children's learning. Discussion of interesting questions, and talk about ways that mathematics can help us with everyday activity, can be more useful than knowing a correct procedure or answer.

The project was based in primary schools in Bristol, and involved parents of children in Year 3 and 4. It included an investigation of parents' motivations and attitudes towards their children's mathematics learning, and of their own uses of mathematics. This was followed by workshops designed to empower parents to reflect upon and share their knowledge relating to mathematics with their children.

Resources for schools and families:

Resources are available to allow teachers to organise similar workshops for parents in their own schools. These include a teachers' guide, leaflets for parents, and workshop plans. These are all available online via the Everyday Maths project website.

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Empowering parents to support their children's maths understanding - Nuffield Foundation

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This project aimed to develop methods for empowering parents to reflect upon and share their uses of mathematics in everyday life, so they can support their children's mathematics learning. Findings: There is great potential in children's home and family life for activity to support children's mathematics learning.

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Help yourself to help others

If a fear of maths has you hiding from homework, we can help!

With a little help from us you can build your number confidence and skills, and begin to feel more prepared for when children come to you for help, and help pass your confidence onto them.

The free National Numeracy Challenge is designed to help you! It's a free, quick and easy way to check your skills and confidence with numbers, where you can go at your own pace, with learning resources tailored to you and your level. It helps with the maths we come across at work and in daily life - not algebra, or trigonometry. You can get started in just 10 minutes, and join the 390,000 others that have already started their journey to number confidence. Give it a go!

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With a little help from us you can build your number confidence and skills, and begin to feel more prepared for when children come to you for help, and help pass your confidence onto them. The free National Numeracy Challenge is designed to help you!

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How to stay positive about maths when teaching your kids - BBC Bitesize

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How to stay positive about maths when teaching your kids - BBC Bitesize

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How to stay positive about maths when teaching your kids

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Advice for parents from the National Numeracy charity

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Free online learning resources | Institute of Education - UCL – University College London

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Free online learning resources | Institute of Education - UCL – University College London

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We have compiled a list of free resources that may be helpful for teachers, school leaders, parents/carers and young people.

Resources

Relating to coronavirus

Relating to home learning

English as an Additional Language (EAL)

Resources for children who speak EAL:

Primary

General

Art

Literacy

Numeracy

Physical education

Jump Start Jonny website - weekly workouts and activities (a paid site with access to some free activities).

Science

Secondary

General

Retrieval Roulettes (A Chemical Orthodoxy website) - a list of Q&A spreadsheets for retrieval practice, including History, English Lit, IB Business Management, A-level Psychology, RE, Sociology, Philosophy, and lots on science.

Business studies

English

Maths

Modern foreign languages

Religious Education (RE)

Science

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)

Smallpeice website - engineering projects for children aged 11-17.

General secondary and primary

Computing

DF Robot website - a range of electronics projects you can do at home.

English

Learning from home (The Poetry Society website) - celebrates poetry with a range of events, educational programmes, and resources. Includes a dedicated 'Learning from Home' page, which links to a wide variety of resources for students, from Year 1 to Further Education.

Maths

Me-U Maths (Me-U website) - practice questions for children from reception to year 9.

Science

YouTube

There are many channels with educational courses for children and adults alike. Here are just a few:

For teachers and school leaders

You will also find source materials based on one of our colleagues' national research on professional learning communities and self-assessment tools for school leaders and for teachers based on our research on evidence-informed teaching.

Source materials

Familiarisation and deepening understanding

Audit

Action

Monitoring and evaluation

Evidence-informed teaching: self-assessment tools

These tools are a product of a two-year study commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), Evidence-informed teaching: an evaluation of progress in England, to assess progress towards an evidence-informed teaching system. We would like to acknowledge the support from the DfE in commissioning the study, and were delighted to partner with the Chartered College of Teaching to publish the tools.
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Although the COGS pack is, on the surface, about climate, weather and energy, at its core sits numeracy. In order to understand the numeracy used in information around weather, climate change and energy, we need an understanding of the mathematical nuts and bolts. The pack offers a range of numeracy related learning activities.

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Downloadable Maths Resources for Parents

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Downloadable Maths Resources for Parents

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*Research by Whizz Education - conducted with over 12,000 students and verified by independent experts - found that students who used Maths-Whizz for 45-60 minutes a week increase their Maths Age, on average, by 18 months in the first year of use

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Online Maths Tutor For 5-13yr olds | Learn Maths Online | Whizz Education

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Resources to accompany the CBeebies Numberblocks series, designed for parents to use at home with children

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PowerPoint Presentation (education.gov.scot)

https://www.education.gov.scot/parentzone/Documents/IamaScientistMar16.pdf

https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/Documents/IAmAMathematician120517.pdf

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Moray House Read Write Count Collaborative | The University of Edinburgh

Summer Family Adventure - Fathers Network Scotland

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Read, Write, Count is a national campaign to improve the literacy and numeracy skills of Scotland's children.

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Numeracy Professional Learning Resources 

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Explore this resource

This package of professional learning resources aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of effective learning and teaching progression, whilst impacting positively on numeracy attainment. It includes the following resources:

Guidance document

Number and Number Processes

Fractions, Decimal Fractions and Percentages

Time

Data and Analysis

Ideas of Chance and Uncertainty

Money (New 2022)

Glossary

These resources, produced as part of the National Improvement Framework, aim to support schools and establishments to identify opportunities for targeted learning and enhance the effective teaching of numeracy concepts and associated skills. They also aim to help practitioners to:

identify methods for enhancing learners' progression and skills in numeracy and support application;

plan how to develop their own practice to ensure the progression of skills when teaching numeracy.

Within each document there is progressive guidance for each level from early through to fourth. Each level includes the following:

Effective learning and teaching approaches;

Things to consider;

Links to other curricular areas;

Reflective questions.

In addition to supporting practitioners to review and reflect on the current progress of their learners, this resource also supports practitioners to identify development themes required for the reinforcement of learning. Furthermore, this resource can support practitioners to review and reflect strengths and improvement areas within their own professional learning.

School leaders can use this resource to support curriculum development and improvement. Local authority leaders can use this resource to support consideration and enhancement of centrally provided professional learning offers to practitioners.

Downloads

Guidance documents
PDF file: Guidance document (510 KB)PDF file: Guidance document (Gaelic version)(480 KB)
Professional Learning resource documents
PDF file: Number and Number Processes (2.7 MB)PDF file: Number and Number Processes (Gaelic version) (3.2 MB)PDF file: Fractions, Decimal Fractions and Percentages (1.9 MB)PDF file: Fractions, Decimal Fractions and Percentages (Gaelic version) (2.2 MB)PDF file: Time (2.1 MB)PDF file: Time (Gaelic version)(2.2 MB)PDF file: Data and Analysis (1.8 MB)PDF file: Data and Analysis (Gaelic version)(2 MB)PDF file: Ideas of Chance and Uncertainty (652 KB)PDF file: Ideas of Chance and Uncertainty (Gaelic version) (900 KB)PDF file: Money (2.6 MB)
Money - Gaelic Version coming soon.

Sketchnotes
PDF file: Early Level Sketchnote - Number and Number Processes (267 KB)
Glossaries
PDF file: Glossary (436 KB)PDF file: Glossary (Gaelic version) (480 KB)PDF file: Numeracy Glossary (Gaelic version - alphabetical) (479 KB)

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This package of professional learning resources aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of effective learning and teaching progression, whilst impacting positively on numeracy attainment.

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Course: Marley's school of garden magic (rbge.ac.uk)

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Education Scotland | Foghlam Alba

Tel:      07540671940
email:  susan.doherty@educationscotland.gov.scot

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Please find below the presentations, resources and activities covered in the Education Scotland/UCL Family Maths series.

session 1 Mathematical development from birth to primary school: What is Maths with Jo van Hervwegen UCL - YouTube

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mathsathome/

session 2 Children at risk for mathematical difficulties: Session 2 Maths Who are the children at Risk With Jo van Herwegen - YouTube

https://www.additudemag.com/dyscalculia-symptoms-diagnosis-children/

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cdld/2021/09/22/developmental-dyscalculia/

session 3 Improving outcomes for children with mathematical learning difficulties: Maths and Numeracy with Dr Jo Van Herwegen 6 Oct 2021 - YouTube

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/blog-supporting-the-learning-of-mathematics-at-home

http://www.educationalneuroscience.org.uk/2020/01/24/narratives-and-mathematics-by-jo-van-herwegen/

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mathsathome/

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/practice-exemplars/engaging-families-in-maths-and-numeracy-series