Embedded Files
Dear families,
Please find below a number of resources and ideas you can use at home to support your child with their Maths skills.
We hope they are useful!
Level 2 Team
Place Value
Place Value
Students have focused on Place Value this semester by renaming, comparing and ordering 3-digit numbers. They have practised counting and estimating collections. Students represented 3-digit numbers according to their place value parts, using MAB blocks, Unifix, tens frames and counters to support their conceptual understanding.
Please find below some games/activities that you can do with your child to support their place value skills.
As you may not have MAB at home, you could use blocks: wooden blocks or lego bricks which can be grouped to represent larger place values (e.g., a stack of 10 blocks for a ten).
Mastermind (place value version)
Mastermind is a game that students will know that is great to practise place value. All you will need is some paper and pencils. You can start off with three columns (hundreds, tens and ones) and when your child becomes becomes confident in this, you can add the thousands column. There is also a video in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWHMaX43Gc
Base 10 Fun
https://www.abcya.com/games/base_ten_fun
This free educational game lets kids practice counting base ten manipulatives. Players can practice base ten numbers by reading and making, listening and making, or counting and writing. Use this game to practice counting virtual base ten manipulatives that represent ones, tens, and hundreds!
Addition
Addition
Students have practised their addition strategies such as doubles, counting on, near doubles, tens facts and building to 10.
Please find below some activities to support your child's addition skills.
Doubles Activities
Doubles Activities
Your child could make their own 'doubles' poster to have at home!
Doubles/Near Doubles activity:
Students fold one half of the page, then paint dots on one half. Make sure the dots are separated and arranged so they are easy to subitise (See straight away without counting). While the paint is still wet, students fold and press to make the double dot painting, since the paint will then transfer to the other side. Students record the doubles fact, for example, 7 + 7 = 14.
Students can also record the matching subtraction fact: 14 – 7 = 7, as well as the half fact, ½ of 14 = 7.
Then, using a new colour, students make an extra dot on the post-it notes. Students now record the near double fact, 7 + 8 = 15
Build to 10
Build to 10
Remembering our 'friends of ten' can help with this strategy!
Please click on the tens frame if you would like to print out your own copy!
Skip Counting
Skip Counting
We will be focusing on multiplication (repeated addition) in Term 3. Something that you can be practising to prepare your child for this is skip counting.
Skip counting by 2s, 10s and 5s are a great start with this. You can start with you child skip counting from 0. Once they are confident with this, you can get them to start counting by another number (e.g. Can you skip count by 5s, starting from 65?)
If they need an extra challenge, you can start them from a higher number so they skip count beyond 100! (e.g. 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112 etc...)
Something that can support skip counting at home is a 120 chart. Please click of the 120 chart to get your own template. Alternatively, you can get an interactive one online with these below websites.
https://toytheater.com/120-chart/
https://www.mathplayground.com/interactive_hundreds_chart.html
Other great resources:
https://www.lovemaths.me/operations-f-2
The games on this website are great for practicing operations and grasping place value. There are videos that you can watch to learn how to play them, and most games only require cards, paper and pencils/textas.
https://drpaulswan.com.au/resources/interactive/
This website has great interactives that you can quickly download to use or play.
Numbots
Numbots
A few weeks ago, your child would have received a Numbots log in.
The program compliments what your child is learning in school and focusses on securing any gaps in their knowledge, before moving them onto the next challenge. This self paced journey improves children’s confidence and means they are fully prepared to tackle each new topic.
Page updated
Report abuse