Maths Information from Meet the Parent Eve

Thanks to all the parents who attended the Meet the Teacher eve, to those who couldn't below is some of the maths information I shared. I hope some of  it helps you  at home.

Ways to practise maths at home which will help your child-

Using Number Knowledge – Quick facts. Try-

*Card games-

Here are some examples of what you could do-

a simple pack of cards can be used to play +/-/x games. Example: take out the picture cards and put into 2 piles. Turn 2 cards over and quickly say the answer. If correct keep. 

Or have one pile of cards no picture cards and one card next to it face up eg 6. Then flick over the other pile quickly adding to 6.

Or two piles of cards (no picture cards) turn over one from each pile and take smallest number from biggest number

*Multiply them, create 3 digit numbers with them the possibilities are endless

or roll 2  or more dice-

add them, times them etc

 

*Websites- Here are a couple of the many which can be found

http://www.primarygames.com/math.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/numeracy.shtml

http://www.snappymaths.com/

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

https://www.studyladder.co.nz

 

Best way to improve maths is to USE IT!!!!

Try and look for the maths in everyday things we do.

*Cooking- measurement of ingredients

*Counting cars on a road trip and keeping a tally of the results. Predicting the result first, who was closest.

*Reading letter box numbers- Is it odd or even? Are the numbers getting bigger or smaller? What letter box number will it be in next?

*Measuring lengths- my shoes- are they all the same? Comparing everyone’s shoes in the family

*Measuring anything and everything in the house. estimate( guess) then measure length or weight of things

* Dividing a garden up for planting, measuring heights of plants or growth of plants, moving my furniture in my room- measure first to make sure beds etc can fit

*Craft- cut, measure, join together

*Building something out of wood together. Measuring wood, nails etc

*Scores in a game ( netball, touch, rugby)- adding points week to week or looking at scores in the paper.

*Tide times-

*Using supermarket and shop advertisements to add together prices, ordering prices, rounding prices to the nearest dollar, using a calculator to total everything, working out savings.

*Round up/down prices while shopping. Keep a running total in your head, guess bill at the end - who was closest?, search prices for eg cereal for the cheapest, most expensive- look at serving size price

*Using a TV guide to work out time between programmes, finding programmes which start at half past five

* Keeping track of petrol prices. Talking about increase/decrease and what it costs for 1 litre of petrol or 10 litres or 35 etc

*Reading numbers in papers- adding on 10 or 100 or 1000

I hope some of these may be helpful.




Thanks again Miss N

Week 3

It is the end of another week.
We started off the week with a sun safety talk  which was very informative and interesting for the children. She focused on what makes a hat a sun smart hat. The students also learnt our hat is a bucket hat. We followed this up with some written reflective work about what she was talking about and a thank you letter.
 Thank you to Sascha, Niamh, Savannah, Aislinn, Jack, Boyd, Keegan and James for representing room 22 and taking part in the school lunchtime cricket world cup comp. We are waiting to see when our second team plays.
Students have now all been given a studyladder password which they can use at home and school. Tasks will be set by me. At the moment there are maths number tasks set. The passwords are written into their homework notebook.
Reminders-
*Please return to me  the homework slip indicating yes or no so I can get all books out to those taking part
*Please return the updated email slip to me so I can start up emailing links to the weekly message on the blog
*Next week Tuesday 24th February is 'meet the teacher eve'. It is in the newsletter and a reminder is on our class door. Hope to see you there.
*Homework-spelling words and a small maths task went home today in their notebook as well as library books.




All have a wonderful weekend


Miss N

More Place Value Sites

http://www.funbrain.com/tens/




http://sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm


http://sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/fruit_shoot_place_value.htm


http://sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/MatchingPV.htm


Enjoy these great games which help with understanding Place Value


Hope you are all having a great weekend!!!!!
See you all Monday!!!!!

Place Value Game

Here is a fun Place Value game
"http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/activity03/activity.swf"

Week 2

Week 2 of the term has been a busy one with swimming, fitness, whanau, library,  kapa haka, portraits, handwriting, place value, writing and the odd test to see where we are at and next steps for learning.
Homework has gone home with the students today. They have between 6-10 words as well as a maths homework number task. I know you and your children are busy with after school clubs and practises so the notebook is not needed back until next Friday. Please try to fit this in when you can. They have a week to practise spelling as well as maths. On Friday we will test spelling words, discuss the maths they completed then rewrite new spelling words and maths for next week. Any spelling mistakes will be for learning again next week.
 I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss N


Oh and thank you for the parents who have helped out this week with spelling and watching the non swimmers while at the pool.

Welcome Back

To Parents and Students,


Welcome Back to another year at school.
So far the students have made a super duper start. Great focus, positive energy and a give it a go attitude.
Thanks to all the students who have remembered togs every day.


I will try to update the blog regularly/ when needed as well as the students putting up work and ideas.


Thanks for reading.