Making Maths as easy as

I…C…T!

https://slp.somerset.gov.uk/Blogs/PrimaryICT

Amy BlackmorePrimary e-Learning Advisor

Somerset LA

To share the ways in which ICT can be used to enhance the Maths curriculum and

provide opportunities for creative learning

Purpose of this session:

Key Stage 1Key Stage 2Gifted & Talented

FreeNewDifferent

• Why ICT?

• Key tools to enhance creative Maths

Use of images

Use of peripherals

Use of Fronter

Use of websites

• Examples of learning

Purpose of this session:

ICT can make whole-class mathematics teaching:Easier Materials and resources can be quickly prepared, stored and retrieved. Work can be saved for later continuation or review. Work can be displayed or printed out at any stage and easily shared.Better The medium allows the presentation and flexible manipulation of resources. It engages pupil attention, enables differentiation and facilitates interaction.Different It allows the presentation of a wide range of resources (for example, websites), which may not be accessible in any other way.

Why ICT? How can I improve the teaching of Maths?

Within the National Curriculum, there are a number of skills and knowledge areas which

can be applied to all subjects.

These are known as Common Requirements.

Teachers are obliged to teach IT skills across the curriculum.

Why ICT? Common Requirements

Early Years and Key Stage 1

Pupils should be given opportunities to use calculators and computer software, including a database, both as a means of exploring number and as tools for calculating with realistic data, e.g. numbers with several digits.

Pupils should be given opportunities to experience early ideas of position and movement through practical activity including the use of ICT devices, e.g. programmable toys, turtle graphics packages.

Common Requirements for IT Skills in Maths

Key Stage 2

Pupils should be given opportunities to use calculators, computers and a range of other sources, as tools for exploring number structure and to enable work with realistic data.

Pupils should be given opportunities to extend their understanding of position and movement using a wide range of materials, including the use of computer software, to create and transform shapes.

Common Requirements for IT Skills in Maths

What ICT tools do you currently use with your learners in Maths?

Maths ITPs

2Simple Maths Games

ICT Games

Primary Games / Teaching

Tables

Digital camera

Datalogger

NRICH site

Roamer/Beebot

TutpupCalculator

Toy cash till

Every child – new

opportunities

Learner as collaborator

Learner as creator

Learner as investigator

Learner as consumer

click

look

think

talk

listen

find

construct

share

organise compare

assess

invent

explorerecord

explainevaluate

test

do

discusslearn

You might use:

• a digital camera to take pictures of shapes found around the school

• a CD-ROM to research data on the heights of mountains;

• calculators to convert fractions into decimals;

• audio tapes for learning counting and multiplication facts;

• numberlines displayed on a large computer screen;

• a television clip to focus on an aspect of mathematics;

• a visualiser to record data over a period of time;

• data-logging equipment to record changes in temperature ;

• the Internet to access up-to-date weather data.

Why ICT?

•What learning is taking place?

•How creative is this?

•Use a photo or artwork

•Insert into SMART Notebookor use Capture

•Use as the stimulus for a mental warm-up/investigation

Use of images

•Use a visualiser for real processes

•Use a camera to make a Maths story

•Use a datalogger to look at patterns and dials

Use of peripherals

•Gifted and Talented Maths room

•Using a forum to share ideas an investigations

•Sharing Maths learning with families

Use of Fronter

Purple Mash

Use of Fronter

•2Count

•2Graph

•Apptivities

Ideas for Early Years Pupils

Number formation Block patterns

Simple patterns “Bob the Builder”

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ICTCurriculumTeam

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Ideas for Key Stage 1 Pupils

Number Lines Same or different?

Carroll Diagrams Money problems

Swansea LEA ICT Curriculum Team

Ideas for Key Stage 2 Pupils

Grouped data Tenths and hundredths

Equalities Ordering decimals

Ideas for Teachers and Pupils

BBC Number Time (Activities, Worksheets & Planning)

Count On Games

Worksheet Creator Nrich Maths

Ideas for Teachers and Pupils

Times Tables Addition / Subtraction

Multiplication Division

Ideas for Teachers and Pupils

Negative Numbers Multiples / Factors

Rounding / Estimating Ratio / Proportion