This month we will be focussing on numeracy skills. These range from basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to more complex work with place value, fractions, and simple algebra. I recently found this British article with som wonderful suggestions for finding ways to foster numeracy skills in your home. Check it out!
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There's lots of maths in your home . Try playing number games with playing cards, dominoes and board games. Children can have hours of fun making their own games too, but you'll need to encourage them by joining in yourself. Make sure you have lots of dice and counters. Play some simple games.
Children can practise their math by:
• sorting the washing and matching pairs of shoes and socks
• finding the patterns in everyday things like adding up 5, 10, or 25 cent coins or reading the house numbers as you go along your street. If your child is not good at working things out in their head at first, don't worry! Be positive. Praise them for what they can do and keep on working with them.
• subtracting the two numbers on your domino from 12; or
• multiplying the two numbers on your domino.
I've got a number in my pocket! My number is less than 100 but what is it? Try to find out what it is in 20 questions. A guess is wasted so ask questions that remove groups of numbers.
• Is it odd or even?
• Is it more or less than 50?
• Can you divide it by five?
Top of the table! Your football team is unbeaten in the first ten games of the season: WWDWDDDWWD, where a win(W) is 3 points, a draw(D) is 1 point, and a loss(L) is 0 points. How many points has your team got?
Car number games Look at the three digits (numbers) on a car, for example 562: • The biggest number you can make by rearranging them is 652.
• The smallest number you can make is 256. • Add the numbers together (5+6+2 = 13). • Multiply them (5x6x2 = 60). • Count up in tens (562, 572, 582, 592, 602 and so on). • Count down in tens (562, 552, 542 and so on). • Count up in hundreds (562, 662, 762, 862, 962, 1062 and so on). • Count down in hundreds (562, 462, 362, 262, 162, 62). • Subtract the numbers (5-6-2 = -3). • Divide it by tens (562, 56.2, 5.62, 0.562, 0.0562 and so on). • Multiply by ten (562, 5,620, 56,200, 562,000 and so on).
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Math at home
There's lots of maths in your home . Try playing number games with playing cards, dominoes and board games. Children can have hours of fun making their own games too, but you'll need to encourage them by joining in yourself. Make sure you have lots of dice and counters. Play some simple games.
Children can practise their math by:
• sorting the washing and matching pairs of shoes and socks
• finding the patterns in everyday things like adding up 5, 10, or 25 cent coins or reading the house numbers as you go along your street. If your child is not good at working things out in their head at first, don't worry! Be positive. Praise them for what they can do and keep on working with them.
- Phone number sums - What do all the digits of your phone number add up to? For example, 0181 424 1163 adds up to 31. Ask your child to find ten phone numbers in your local phone book with the same total as your own phone number.
- Where would you like to go today? Get out a road atlas and find the chart that shows distances between towns and cities. Find where you live and choose five places round the country you would like to visit. Which is the furthest from where you live and which is the nearest? If you were travelling at about 30 miles an hour (that's one mile every two minutes), roughly how long would it take you to get to each place from your home? Learn your tables while at the shops!
- Count things that come in sets of the following. Two: twin packs of orange juice, yoghurts, socks. Three: bars of soap, packs of sandwiches, packs of biscuits. Four: packs of bread rolls, chicken pies, fingers on a chocolate bar. Five: slices of meat or cheese. Six: eggs, jam tarts, cans of cola. Seven: now there's a challenge! Can you find anything that comes in sets of seven? Or how about sets of eight or nine? Less than, more than, same as
- Check round the house or the shop for things that weigh exactly 1kilogram(kg). Feel the weight of a 1kg packet. Use the 1kg packet to find things which are: less than 1kg; more than 1kg; equal to1kg. It's a bargain What would the shopping items in your trolley be worth if their prices were cut by: 50%; 25%; 10%; 20%; or what if they were all two for the price of one?
Math in play
- Playing games will help your child to get better at maths. Play games like snakes and ladders, or dominoes. Or, you can make up your own maths games. Dominoes down Spread a set of dominoes face down on the table. Each player chooses a domino at the same time. Add the two numbers on your domino together. Whoever has the largest number keeps both dominoes. The person who ends up with the most dominoes wins!
• subtracting the two numbers on your domino from 12; or
• multiplying the two numbers on your domino.
I've got a number in my pocket! My number is less than 100 but what is it? Try to find out what it is in 20 questions. A guess is wasted so ask questions that remove groups of numbers.
• Is it odd or even?
• Is it more or less than 50?
• Can you divide it by five?
Top of the table! Your football team is unbeaten in the first ten games of the season: WWDWDDDWWD, where a win(W) is 3 points, a draw(D) is 1 point, and a loss(L) is 0 points. How many points has your team got?
Car number games Look at the three digits (numbers) on a car, for example 562: • The biggest number you can make by rearranging them is 652.
• The smallest number you can make is 256. • Add the numbers together (5+6+2 = 13). • Multiply them (5x6x2 = 60). • Count up in tens (562, 572, 582, 592, 602 and so on). • Count down in tens (562, 552, 542 and so on). • Count up in hundreds (562, 662, 762, 862, 962, 1062 and so on). • Count down in hundreds (562, 462, 362, 262, 162, 62). • Subtract the numbers (5-6-2 = -3). • Divide it by tens (562, 56.2, 5.62, 0.562, 0.0562 and so on). • Multiply by ten (562, 5,620, 56,200, 562,000 and so on).
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