Learning Our Number Bonds

Pine Class have been working really hard to develop their mental maths skills. This week we have been busy playing lots of dice games involving counting on and adding. Today we focused on learning our number bonds to 5. Number bonds' are pairs of numbers which add together to make up each number. The number bonds for seven, for instance, are 3+4, 2+5, 1+6 and 0+7. To have a quick grasp of addition and subtraction, it's vital to know number bonds for each number up to ten. We went outside with big sticks and after a little whole class practise split into two teams. One team had to pick a secret number to tap and the other team had to add the extra taps needed to make 5. It was a challenge at first but by the end of the session the children were beginning to work out the answer without needing to count out loud!