Recently in Year Two maths, Tagore and Delaunay have been busy building a very important skill: partitioning two-digit numbers. This means learning how to break numbers into tens and ones — for example, understanding that 46 is made up of 40 and 6. It’s a key part of helping children feel confident when working with larger numbers.
In class, we’ve used lots of hands-on activities to bring this concept to life. The children have been using base ten blocks, place value charts, number cards and even drawing pictures to show how numbers can be split.
These activities will help the children when we move on to addition, subtraction and other operations, plus, most importantly, they help children understand that numbers are something they can break down when they are calculating.
To support this learning at home, please ask your child to explain how they would partition two-digit numbers such as 32 or 57, then challenging them to tell you alternative ways. You could also ask the quetion, “What are the tens and ones?” during everyday activities such as shopping.
Thank you for your continued support! It’s been lovely to see the children grow in confidence as they have explored numbers in this unit.