Tips and help for 2008-2009

To download Year 5 Maths Objectives click here.

Know your times-tables up to x 10 off by heart. The quicker you master these, the easier maths in Year 5 and Year 6 will become. Your knowledge of your tables and associated division is useful in fractions, decimals, word problems, shape, money, etc, etc. The list is endless.

Five minutes everyday on times-tables, keeps them fresh in your memory. Do them at the breakfast table or on the way to school. Chant them out regularly. As a treat play some of the times-table games below.

1. Times-tables 1       Various games from Woodlands Primary School Website

2. Timez attack         Brilliant interactive video game. Play a basic version then order the software. It's worth it!

3. Times-table game    Practise speedily here!

4. Multiplication.com    Lots of fun games to help you remember your multiplication facts

Buy the Schofield & Sims Mental Arithmetic Books for Key Stage 2. Many tutors and parents are familiar with these cheap (£1.95 each! )but highly useful resource. The books are full of endless questions which use a range of vocabulary and expose the children to several ways of solving problems. The average Year 5 should be looking at Book 3 or 4 by now and some may be ready for Book 5.

These books really help finding areas for development. I tend to ask children to complete section A and B of each page against the clock in the few times I have used them. Whereas Section C is done in their own time.

Although the book is intended to be for mental arithmetic, there is nothing wrong with writing down calculations if this helps until the child masters it.

Section C is arguably the most useful section because it provides children with the area that is more often than not their achilles heel - word problems and investigations.

These books can be bought at Muswell Hill Bookshop, WHSmith, or Amazon.

Every week check/reinforce your understanding of the maths we have been studying in class by clicking on a game or worksheet below.

WB 5.1.09        Subtraction Methods

WB 12.1.09       Area and Perimeter

                          Averages

WB 19.1.09       Fractions - equivalents, simplifying, improper and mixed fractions

                         Area and Perimeter 2

                         Conversion of metric measurements

 WB 26.1.09       Multiplication

                       Multiplication 2

                       Division

WB 2.2.09     Angles (Using a protractor)

                      Angles (Quiz)

                       Angles (What's the missing angle?)

WB 23.2.09      Co-ordinates

                     Data Handling (Games and quizzes)

                     Line Graphs (Click on Year 5 Line Graphs)

WB 2.3.09       Probability

                    Probability 2

                    Probability 3

                    Tenths, Hundredths, Thousandths

WB 9.3.09      Teaching Time

                   Time Exercises 1

                   Variety of time games

                   24 hour clock game

                   Reading times and dates fun

                   Reading and understanding transport timetables

 WB 16.3.09   Addition (Mental: including adding a series of numbers)

                   Bargain Hunt

                  Callum's Addition Pyramid

                  Your number's up (all 4 operations are tested)

                  Mental Maths Fun

                  Adding and subtracting decimals

WB 23.3.09   As previous week but you also might look at...

                 Pick and Mix (adding money game)

                 Money Problems

WB 20.4.09   Area and Perimeter   A fun animation

                  Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages

WB 27.4.09   Revision for Key Stage 2

WB 11.5.09   Decimals   Fun game

                  Decimals 2    Another fun game

                  Decimals 3    Yet another fun game

WB 18.5.09   Fractions      Fractions of quantity game

WB 1.6.09    Capacity and Volume

WB 8.6.09   Circles         Basketball game using Pi, radius, diameter, circumference, etc

                 Pentominoes  Fun with shapes

WB 15.6.09  Data handling     Pie Charts, bar charts, averages, etc