After going through the first worksheet and identifying how to combine multiplication and addition, Astrid was able to complete the worksheet on her own with limited help. She is starting to gain confidence in her maths abilities. She was also able to recite the four times tables by heart, up until 40.

Astrid needs practice remembering which number of the four times table corresponds to specific integrals. For example, I would ask her "what is 4 x 8?" she would take a moment and answer correctly. I would then ask "what is 4 x 7?" and again, she would take a moment. Then when I ask her again, "what is 4x8?" she still takes the same amount of time calculating the value from scratch, rather than remembering she had answered it just one question ago. Astrid needs to also work on actually calculating rather than guessing, and she tends to become overconfident quite quickly. We will continue to work together to find a balance between her confidence and maths abilities.

Astrid knows how to carry the numbers when doing addition and can do so without my help! This is a great improvement from when we last did addition with carrying, where I had to remind her to carry her numbers multiple times. The more we went through the worksheets, she quicker she was getting, showing great improvement from just one month prior.

Astrid needs to improve her mental arithmetic. For example, remembering that 5 + 7 = 12, and 7+5 is also 12. However, this is something that is improved with practice, and Astrid has shown marked improvement compared to one month prior. She can make silly mistakes like miscounting her numbers or accidentally skipping an integer, and needs to learn to slow down at times.

Astrid knew how to identify fractions and describe fractions in words (e.g., 1/2 is one half, 1/4 is one quarter).

Astrid remembers concepts learnt in maths when it is done recently - her excellent performance in fractions is evidence of this. However, when we were revising our times tables, she had forgotten all the core rules (e.g., anything multiplied by 10 is adding a 0 to the end of the number). She also has to work on her confidence - she often turns to me to look for confirmation of her answer. For example, she correctly identified that 5 x 4 = 20, but when I asked her if she was sure, rather than say yes, she said no and attempted to recalculate it. Even after recalculating 5 x 4 and arriving at the same result, she still thought she was wrong. Only when I confirmed that 5 x 4 = 20 did she write it down.

She understands multiples of 5 and 10 well, and is showing great improvement for her skip-counting in 3s and 4s. We had learnt a method for addition and she applies this well and with ease.

Astrid can sometimes get overconfident and get ahead of herself when doing questions. She will understand what she has to do, but she makes careless mistakes (e.g., counting back from 32 too quickly and mistakenly identifying "30" as "20", so she skips counting down from 29-21 and jumps to 19.). Astrid also requires improvement on mental arithmetic. For example, if she writes down 43 + 4 she easily answers 47, but without writing it down, she struggles.