Year 1 Maths — What Your Child Will Learn
Children often understand maths in class but forget it weeks later because they don’t practise it again. Out of School gives short daily practice across every topic for their year (number, calculation, fractions, measurement, geometry and problem solving), and keeps bringing earlier topics back, so skills build on each other instead of being forgotten. Every answer is marked straight away, with worked solutions when your child is stuck.
What Your Child Will Learn in Year 1 Maths
What Children Often Find Difficult
What children struggle with
Common mistakes to watch for
How You Can Help at Home
Count with real objects
Use everyday objects to count — stairs, toys, coins. Physical counting builds genuine number sense before pencil-and-paper practice starts.
Number bonds to 10 are the priority
Number bonds to 10 and 20 are the single most important Year 1 skill. Children who recall these instantly have a significant advantage across all of KS1 and KS2.
Numbers are everywhere
Point at numbers on doors, buses, and price tags. Ask ‘What comes next?’ Connecting numerals to the real world builds fast and lasting recognition.
Year 1 & KS1 SATs Relevance
There are no formal SATs in Year 1. The Year 2 KS1 assessment (optional for schools) draws directly on Year 1 foundations — number bonds, simple addition and subtraction, and shape recognition. A child who leaves Year 1 secure in these skills is significantly better placed for every year that follows.
Example Homework Questions
Question
What is 7 + 5?
Expected Answer
12
Skill Tested
Addition crossing the tens boundary
Question
13 = 10 + ___
Expected Answer
3
Skill Tested
Place value and number bonds to 20
Question
Circle the shapes that have 4 sides.
Expected Answer
Square, rectangle, and any quadrilateral
Skill Tested
2D shape recognition
Track Your Child’s Year 1 Progress Week by Week
With Out of School, you never have to guess how your child is getting on in Year 1. Our parent dashboard shows exactly which number bonds have been practised, where mistakes are happening, and what your child’s tutor has set for homework. You will know before the school does.
Topic-by-topic tracking
See which curriculum areas are strong and which need work — broken down by individual topic, not just a single percentage.
Homework visibility
Every piece of homework set is visible to parents in real time — questions, answers, and accuracy — as soon as the session ends.
Tutor reports
After every session, parents receive a progress update covering what was covered, what went well, and what to focus on next.