Activities and Resources

National Numeracy Strategy: Year 1

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	Click on the correct fish to complete the addition sum / subtraction sum		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS: Y1: Calculations 30: Know by heart all pairs of numbers with a total of 10 Y2: Calcuations 31: Know by heart all addition and subtraction facts for each number to at least 10 NC - KS1: Ma2 Number: Calculations 3c: Know addition and subtraction facts to 10.
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	Practising changing the time on an analogue clock with reference to a digital clock.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Measures, shapes and space 78 Y1: Read the time to the hour and half hour on analogue clocks. Y2: Read the time to the hour, half hour or quarter hour on an analogue clock and a 12-hour digital clock, and understand the notation 7:30. Y3: Read the time to 5 minutes on an analogue clock and a 12-hour digital clock, and use the notation 9:40. NC KS2: Understanding measures d) Read the time from analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks; use units of time - seconds, minutes, hours...
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	Sort the ladybirds on the right leaves according to their colour, size, and number of spots.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG) Use developing mathematical ideas and methods to solve practical problems. NNS Reception: Sort and match objects. Y1: Organising and using data 90-93: Solve a given problem by sorting, classifying and organising information in simple ways, such as using objects or pictures.
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	Doing simple addition sums.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1: Calculations: Understanding addition 24,28: Begin to recognise that addition can be done in any order. Begin to use the + and = signs to record mental calculations in a number sentence, and recognise the use of symbols to stand for an unknown number. Y1: Rapid recall of addition facts 30: Know by heart all pairs of numbers with a total of 10 (e.g 3+7) NC - KS1 Mental methods c) Know addition and subtraction facts to 10; Know doubles of numbers to 10.
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	Practise comparing and ordering numbers to 10 on a number track.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1: Place value and ordering: 10: Understand and use the vocabulary of comparing and ordering numbers. Compare two familiar numbers and saw which is more or less. NC: Maths KS1: Ma2 Number: Numbers and the number system c): Read and write numbers to 20...understand and use the vocabulary of comparing and ordering numbers... order a set of one- and two-digit numbers and position them on a number line.
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	Practising using left/right and other directions to direct the turtle round the maze.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG Use everyday words to describe position, direction and movement. NNS Y1: Shape and space 86,88: Use everyday language to describe position, direction and movement. NC: Pupils should be taught to observe, visualise and describe positions, directions and movements using common words.
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	Play against a friend or the computer in this familiar game.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1 & Y2: Shape and space 87-89: Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement. Reasoning about numbers or shapes 63: Solve mathematical problems or puzzles, recognise simple patterns and relationships... NC KS1: Shape, space and measures 1e: Recognise simple spatial patterns and relationships and make predictions about them.
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	Put the days of the week in order.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1: Measures, shape and space 78: Know the days of the week and the seasons of the year. NC KS1: Understanding measures 4a: Put familiar events in chronological order.
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	Place the four seasons in order.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1: Measures, shape and space 78: Know the days of the week and the seasons of the year. NC KS1: Understanding measures 4a: Put familiar events in chronological order.
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	Fill in the gaps on the number line.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1: Numbers and the number system 14: Order numbers to at least 20, and position them on a number track. NNS Y2: Numbers and the number system 15: Order whole numbers to at least 100 and position them on a number line. NC KS1: The number system c: Order a set of one-digit and two-digit numbers and position them on a number line.
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	Count objects on the seabed to 10 and to 20		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1 Numbers and the number system; counting, properties of numbers and number sequences: Count reliably at least 20 objects. NC KS1 Number: Numbers and the number system a) Count reliably up to 20 objects at first and recognise that if the objects are rearranged the number stays the same.
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	Help Delia Drip make patterns on the seabed. An extension to What Comes Next?		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG: Talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns. NNS Y1: Organising and using data 90-93: Solve a given problem by sorting, classifying and organising information in simple ways, such as using objects or pictures. NC KS1: Ma3 Shape, space and measures 1e: recognise simple spatial patterns and relationships and make predictions about them.
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	Completing simple addition and subtraction sums by choosing the correct function needed (+ or -).		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1, Calculations 24-29: Understand the operation of addition and subtraction. Begin to use the + and - symbols. Y1, Rapid recall of addition and subtraction facts: Begin to know addition facts for all pairs of numbers with a total of up to at least 10, and the corresponding subtraction facts. NC KS1: Number operations and the relationships between them a) understand addition and use related vocabulary; recognise that addition can be done in any order; understand that subtraction as both 'take away' and 'difference' and use the related vocabulary...
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	Identifying and matching pairs of pictures.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Reception: Sort and match objects.
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	Go shopping in Sparklantis and practise your skills with money.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Y1: Problems involving 'real life', money or measures: 66-71: Use mental strategies to solve simple problems set in 'real life', money or measurement contexts, using counting, addition, subtraction [...]; Recognise coins of different values. Find totals and change from up to 20p. Work out how to pay and exact sum using smaller coins. NC Maths: KS1: Ma2: Calculations: 4a) choose sensible calculation methods to solve whole-number problems (including problems involving money or measures)...
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	Ordering items of clothing in the order you put them on.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Reception: Sort and match objects, pictures or themselves. Y1: Organising and using data 90-93: solve a given problem by sorting, classifying and organising information in simple ways, such as using objects or pictures. NC Ma3 Shape, space and measures 1e: recognise simple spatial patterns and relationships and make predictions about them
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	Help the Yaboos by sorting out the things they find there. This exercise is aimed to teach early years children about patterns and sequencing.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG: Talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns. NNS Y1: Organising and using data 90-93: Solve a given problem by sorting, classifying and organising information in simple ways, such as using objects or pictures. NC KS1: Ma3 Shape, space and measures 1e: recognise simple spatial patterns and relationships and make predictions about them.
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	Zap the jellyfish by typing the correct number on the number track to save Sidney the Shark's breakfast.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS Year 1, 14: Order numbers to at least 20, and position them on a number track. NC KS1; Ma2 Number; Numbers and the number system 2c) [...] order a set of one and two-digit numbers and position them on a number line and hundred-square.
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	Zap the jellyfish by typing the correct number on the number line to save Sidney the Shark's breakfast.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NNS: Y1: 15: Order numbers to at least 20, and position them on a number track. NC KS1; Ma2 Number; Numbers and the number system 2c) [...] order a set of one and two-digit numbers and position them on a number line...
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