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Maths at home is about having fun together. Play a board game, bake, measure, complete puzzles and count objects.
Maths at home is about having fun together. Play a board game, bake, measure, complete puzzles and count objects.
Scones
Scones
3 cups self-raising flour OR 3 cups plain flour and 6 tsp baking powder
½ tsp table salt
60g butter, cubed
1 ¼ cups milk
1. Preheat oven to 210 degrees fan-bake.
2. Lightly grease and flour a baking tray or line with baking paper.
3. Put flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
4. Rub butter into flour using just your fingertips, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
5. Add milk all at once, mix in quickly with a round-bladed knife to form a soft dough. Add more milk if necessary.
6. Put dough on a floured surface and knead lightly by turning and pressing with heel of hand 3 or 4 times.
7. Pat or gently roll out to a 2cm-thick round. Cut into 4-5cm rounds with a floured cutter, re-rolling offcuts.
8. Place on baking tray, brush tops with extra milk.
9. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden and well risen.
Math's talks
Math's talks
Click on the above link which will take you to a page of number talks. The purpose of this is just to get your child talking about math's. We would love to see what they say about the pictures. You could share their learning with us on class dojo.
Find all sorts of activities and Maths learning to do at home on the link above.
The links below are some more specific learning activities that are perfect for our tamariki. Maths isn't all about getting the right answer, it's about our thinking and reasoning to how we got there. We don't always need an answer in Maths. Open ended problems like the ones on the links below are exactly what we want our tamariki to be doing. Encourage your children to answer questions like 'Why do you think that?' and 'How did you get there?' to emphasise the importance of our tamariki talking about their Maths rather than trying to please you with the 'right' answer.
Instead of teaching addition to 10, e.g. 3 + 7 = 10 . Try a question like this... If I had 10 lollies to share between two people show me how many different ways I could split the 10 lollies between the two people. This shows that there is not only one right answer and in some problems there may not even be an answer at all and we don't always want there to be!
As our students are Years 0 - 2 we are working at Level 1 of the NZ Curriculum. Have fun exploring this site and let us know how you get on!
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