We use a maths mastery programme to help with our teaching of maths. Please read here for weekly updates about mastering number.

Subitising 

Our activities will allow children to use their perceptual subitising skills (seeing the quantity without counting) in increasingly complex arrangements, moving from dots in a line and arrangements of 2, to a focus on standard dice arrangements. For larger quantities, the children will begin to use skills of conceptual subitising , beginning to quickly see the sub-groups within these larger numbers. A key focus will be on developing skills of visualising; the children will be encouraged to look carefully at arrangements of dots and then close their eyes and explain what they saw. Using spatial language to describe sub-groups within these arrangements will deepen the children's understanding of part-whole reactions and allow them to further consider composition (the numbers within numbers).