- Transcription: Mastery Activity Ideas to try at home
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- Use practical opportunities for adding in everyday situations. For example; counting the fruit in a fruit bowl. '"There are three apples and two bananas. How many pieces of fruit altogether?
- White down numbers which add together to make a given total.
- Draw part whole models to show the different ways of making...
- Find missing numbers. "I have 8 buttons altogether. I have 3 buttons in my right hand, how many in my left hand?"
Children used to work on their KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) in school and at home. We have now replaced these with the Mastering Number programme from Reception to Year 2 and Year 4 and 5 to develop children's number sense and secure early number skills. Year 3 recap additive facts and introduce multiplicative facts, whilst Year 6 recap and revisit all times tables and apply this to fractions, percentages and related facts. Please see the fluency progression document in the curriculum section for a detailed breakdown of the skills covered. We also use Sumdog which helps support subitising (recognising a number on sight) and early number skills in EYFS and KS1 and provides pupils with instant feedback. Teachers can set homework tasks on this and it has an adaptive fluency skills zone too.
Even though we no longer follow the KIRFS in school, we have kept some of our sample KIRF resources and quiz books on here in case they can help to provide additional practice at home.