The Juniors and Seniors have been doing a lot a work on addition over the past few weeks. Juniors began using the + and = symbols in their sums, and Seniors have been doing lots of sums both mentally and written.
A good game we have used for practising addition is Marble Maths on abcya.com. The children can use the marbles at the bottom of the page as visual aids if they are finding a sum difficult.
Junior Infants are doing sums where the answer is between 0-5, Senior Infant sums have answers between 0-10. Children can use counters (these can be anything from lego bricks to pasta) and number lines to help them to work out the answers.
For example, if the sum is 3+4, the child starts on 3 and 'jumps' on 4 numbers:
It is also very important that children recognise their numbers and are writing numbers correctly and the right way around. This is the way we write our numbers.
There are also number formation poems here which can be helpful reminders when writing numbers.
