Rangitoto Numeracy

Maths in a real life context…

• • Recipes - measuring the ingredients, double or half the quantity.

  • Capacity - Have some water play with your child, transfer water from different types of containers will something tall and skinny hold the same amount as something short and fat?

  • Record the weather every day, if possible record the temperature, has it gone up or down? By how much?

  • Time - learn to read the different clocks in your house, learn what 1 minute is….do a number of 1 minute challenges e.g. how many hops can you do in 1 minute? How many push ups can you do in 1 minute? Record it and redo these challenges, noting any changes.

  • Play board games, Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Cluedo, dominoes etc.

  • Different ways of using a deck of cards - snap, memory match, making 10, pick two cards and add them together, create a 2 or 3 digit number, order the cards from smallest to biggest, pick a card then say the number before/after

  • Fractions: share packets of things into equal groups, changing how many people to share with.

Below are the goals (bubble pictures) we are working on in class, with the aim being the children are working at Stage 4 by the end of year 2. Choose a goal, practice and make games up that can help your child learn each one e.g. count forwards from any number to 100.