Here is Gurpal, 5, doing a little mental maths practice over the holiday.

Here is Aiqi, 6, just completed the sums in hundreds on the board mentally. She hasn’t been taught adding in hundreds previously but was able to complete them by applying place value understanding learned using the soroban. She found the last question (Question 7) tougher and worked it out by drawing lines connecting the hundreds and tens.

There is always a time and a place to do abacus homework. These are photos sent by the boy’s mum. [wppa type=”slideonly” album=”4″][/wppa]

Here are some work completed by Reception and Year 1 children at Falcons Primary School in Leicester. [wppa type=”album” album=”2″][/wppa]