Falcons have spent today’s maths lesson using Numicon to support addition. This is all part of our drive this year to continue the use of manipulatives (In plain English: things to hold that help with calculating!) into the upper year groups in school. The use of these physical tools would previously have tailed off as children learnt formal written methods.
This, combined with the use of Bar-modelling and the Part, part whole model, are some of the new things based on research by the MathsHubs that we are trying to keep developing the way we teach maths at Tranmere.
Keep checking the website to find out more about how we are using research to inform new practice in maths and more!
