Children working with parents over 4 weeks focusing on maths. Parents overall negative about their experiences with maths, but positive about their child's.

Making sense of subtraction - possible models to assist understanding 5 - 3 #seicmaths #ScotEdChat

Showing how we get to - 1

Using counters to explore negatives, with 4 + - 5 as a starting point #seicmaths #ScotEdChat

Orange is one unit. 0.4 + 0.5 using Cuisenaire rods #seicmaths #ScotEdChat

"Bodmas is a teaching technique, not a mathematical technique" @mrmattock #seicmaths #ScotEdChat

Where each counter is worth 3. No problem with learners relying on addition #seicmaths #ScotEdChat

'Exchange' or 'regrouping' 444+555 using counters #seicmaths #ScotEdChat

Part, part, whole along a line. #seicmaths

Unit of counting is important. Key idea is when we view these objects, addition happens when we think of them as the same #ScotEdChat #seicmaths

Making sense of an idea.

Pattern and predictability

Who will lose?