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