Using Stories to Teach Maths Ages 4 to 7 by Way Steve;Hickton Simon; & Simon Hickton

Author:Way, Steve;Hickton, Simon; & Simon Hickton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: maths, mathematics, problem, solving, numbers, comparatives, ordinal, 3D, shapes, place, value, times, tables, subtraction, measures
ISBN: 3001937
Publisher: Andrews UK Ltd.
Published: 2012-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Primitive place value

Programme of Study

KS1. Ma 2. 2c ... recognise that the position of a digit gives its value and know what each digit represents, including zero as a place holder...

Ma 2. 3b. ...find one half and one quarter of shapes and small numbers of objects...

Background

This story introduces the concept of place value in an imaginative context. The idea is that the first teacher in history, Miss /a/ has only nine pupils in her class. This is OK as numbers supposedly only go up to nine. However Miss /a/ becomes the first (but not the last) teacher to suffer the stress of teaching when more pupils arrive at her cave-classroom. To begin with she avoids the problem of dealing with numbers she can’t record for the health and safety regulations (there are loads of regulations even in the stone age!) Being a brilliant teacher (like they all are so we’ve heard) she points out the fractions the class is divided up into on each occasion but when it rains and all the children end up in the cave-classroom a new solution is needed. Fortunately Medium /ae/ comes up with a solution - a new column!!! The activities we suggest explore fractions and the idea of place value, for example but looking at alternatives to the place value system we use.

For fun we’ve given the characters names based on vowel phonemes using the Letters and Sounds system, knowing that the children will be exploring these phonemes at around this time in their learning development, so we hope it will be interesting for them to see them being used in a different context. You may find our publication “Every Phoneme Covered” a useful reference if you wish to expand or link phoneme teaching to this idea.

The names and their related phonemes are;

Miss /a/ (as in “cat”)

Little /e/ and Big /e/ (as in “bed”)

/i/ (as in “tin”)

/o/ (as in “got”)

/u/ (as in “up”)

/ur/ (as in “work”)

Loud /ae/, Medium /ae/ and Quiet /ae/ (as in “day”)

/ee/ (as in “see”)

/oo/ (as in “cook”)

/ie/ (as in “pie”)

Lesson plan

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