What do Year 1 learn in Maths
Year 1 is the first year of Key Stage 1 and what Year 1 learn in maths, will set the foundation for Year 2. Children will no longer have access to free all day, they will now follow the timetable for the rest of the school and have 3 playtimes only. A break in the morning for 20 minutes, a break in the afternoon and the lunch hour. The rest of the day will be made up of specific lessons as in the rest of the school.
As Year 1 is the first year in Key stage 1, this is the year where everything learnt from Nursery to this year is tested. Children need to work more independently and use their knowledge to solve real life problems. They will use lots of practical equipment, such as beads, cubes and other apparatus to help them understand the concepts more easily, but what looks like play will be very structured learning.
For example, they may play shops to solve actual calculations, but be immersed into the situation to understand how the process works with play money and a till.
The Maths curriculum has changed in recent years and there is a bigger emphasis on application of skills. This means children have to use their knowledge of the world to solve real life problems.
There are roughly 10 areas of Maths covered by the curriculum and we shall look at these below.
What Year 1 learn in Numeracy
1. Year 1 learn in Maths – Place Value
Year 1 need to count from 1 to 100 both backwards and forwards from 0.
Children will count in jumps of 1, 2, 5, or 10, preparing them for their times tables.
They will also look at one more and one less as well as use number squares and number lines.
Children need to be able to write numbers as digits to 100, and recognise numbers which are odd and even.
They also need to be able to fill in missing numbers in a sequence.
2. Year 1 learn in Maths – Addition and Subtraction
Children will need to recall number bonds to 10. Addition and subtraction facts to 5. They also need to recall addition doubles to 5+5, such as 2+2, 3+3 etc.
They will also need to double and identify near doubles.
They will also need to add and subtract one digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0.
Add by adding the smaller number to the larger number.
Use partitioning for numbers larger than 5 up to 9
Understand the terminology of subtraction, takeaway and difference.
Read written calculations using + – and =
Go above 10 when adding single digits, or above 20 when adding a single digit to a double digit.
Start to understand the inverse operation and also solve missing number problems including money problems.
Here they will need to learn the denominations of money, like 20p, 2p etc. How they can be added or subtracted to create different amounts, and also used to solve problems such as finding totals and giving change.
3. Year 1 learn in Maths – Multiplication and Division
Understand the symbols x and =
Solve practical problems using pictures and objects.
Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10.
4. Year 1 learn in Maths – Algebra
Solve missing number problems
6=2 + *
Complete sequences which have a difference of 1,2 or 3 in between the numbers.
5. Year 1 learn in Maths – Fractions
Children must be able to recognise fractions such as ½,1/4 in shapes and quantities.
6. Year 1 learn in Maths – Geometry of position and direction
This will use their knowledge of fractions to work out ¼ turns, half turns to talk about directions. They also need to make different patterns using repeated shapes.
7. Year 1 learn in Maths – Geometry of shape
Here children need to be able to recognise and name all common 2D and 3D shapes, using their properties, such as how many faces, sides, corners. They must also start to draw common 2D shapes.
8. Year 1 learn in Maths – Measurements
Children will need to be able to describe, compare and solve practical problems related to for length and height, using terms like long/short, longer/shorter, tall/ short, using a measuring rule to understand this, and also record measurements they have taken.
Also, for weight, such as heavy/ light, heavier/lighter, using scales to estimate and other measuring equipment.
For volume, empty/full, more than/less than and so on, working with measuring jugs and beakers.
9. Year 1 learn in Maths – Time
Here, they will also need to understand that time is made up of hours, minutes, and seconds, understand that time can go fast or slow, or quicker or slower.
They also ned to be able to sequence events using the vocabulary, yesterday, today, tomorrow, before, after, first, second, last, next and so on. They also need to be able to read the times, O’clock and half past on an analogue clock.
Understand that the days, weeks and months and years are also parts of time and how they are linked to the seasons
10. Year 1 learn in Maths – Statistics
Create tallies using pictures and objects and solve simple problems using these too.
Targets for end of Year 1 Numeracy
Year 1 Numeracy Targets
- Count backwards and forwards from 0 to 20
- Write all the digits 0-9
- Count on from any number up to 20 and backwards from any number between 0-20
- They will need to know their addition and subtraction facts to 20.
- Read and write numbers from 0 to 20; and order them in sequence backwards or forwards
- Be able to work out numbers that are 10 more or 10 less than numbers between 0 and 30
- Know all the number bonds that make 10, i.e. 2+8, 7+3, 3+7 etc.
- Understand the different meanings of addition and subtraction, i.e. plus, more than, add, take away, subtract, the difference between is…
- They will learn about times tables through repeated addition, grouping and sharing in order to solve multiplication and division problems. These will be solved through practical methods using resources, rather than paper methods.
- Double and halve small numbers, for example, half of 20, double 2, also investigate quarters.
- Be able to describe 3-D and 2-D shapes using common language
- Know how to make measurements, i.e. lengths, weight, capacity
- Know if things are longer or shorter, wider or narrower, etc.
The new ‘mastery’ curriculum means children now also need to apply their knowledge to solve problems and challenges, as well as do calculations.