Maths @ Home
Please try to do some Maths each day at home. This could be:
using the apps/websites below
making your own wee readers and drawing the pictures or making them on a device
completing the daily activity that your child's teacher assigns via Seesaw to help with reading at home.
accessing Te Kura (the information is below).
No device or internet, then try these ideas:
find and connect numbers around your home and neighbourhood – phone numbers, clocks, letterboxes, road signs, signs showing distance
count forwards and backwards (starting with numbers like 998, 999, 1,000, 1,001, 1,002 then back again)
make patterns when counting – forwards and backwards, starting with different numbers (73, 83, 93, 103… or 118, 108, 98, 88…)
explore patterns through drumming, clapping, stamping, dancing find out the ages and birth dates of family and whānau see patterns in the numbers in their times tables.
making lunch or a meal for a party or a hui – make sandwiches in different shapes. Can they cut their sandwich in half? Can they cut the other sandwich in half a different way?
helping at the supermarket – choose items to weigh – how many apples/bananas weigh a kilo? Look for the best buy between different makes of the same items (eg blocks of cheese) – check on the amount of sugar or salt per serving
telling the time – o’clock, ½ , ¼ past
deciding how much money you will need to put into the parking meter and what time you will need to be back before the meter expires
thinking about how many telephone numbers they can remember – talk about what they do to help them remember the series of numbers
reading together – help them look for numbers and mathematics ideas
looking for shapes and numbers in newspapers, magazines, junk mail, art (like carvings and sculpture).
play card and board games that use guessing and checking
look at junk mail – which is the best value? Ask your child what they would buy if they had $10/$100/$1,000 to spend
do complicated jigsaw puzzles
cook or bake – use measuring cups, spoons (½ and ¼ teaspoon) and scales
collect boxes – undo and see if you can make them up again or make it into something else
make paper darts and change the weight so that they fly differently, work out which is the best design
create a repeating pattern (eg kōwhaiwhai patterns) to fill up a page or decorate a card
play mathematics "I Spy" – something that is ½ a km away, something that has 5 parts hide something from each other and draw a map or hide several clues – can you follow the map or the clues and find it?
do skipping ropes/elastics – how long will it take to jump 20 times?
count forwards and backwards (starting with numbers like 10,098, 10,099, 10,100, 10,101 then back again)
find and read large numbers in your environment eg nineteen thousand, three hundred and twenty-three
learn number pairs to 100 eg 81 and what equals 100?
read car number plates, look at the car’s odometer to see how far you’ve gone
work out patterns – make codes from numbers.
count forwards and backwards (starting with numbers like these fractions: ¼ , ½ , ¾ , 1, 1¼ , 1½ then back again)
talk about large numbers in your environment e.g., computer game scores, distances
talk about the phases of the moon and link these to the best times for fishing/planting
talk about the patterns in the night sky – summer and winter. What changes and why?
talk about graphs and tables that are in your local newspapers.
making dinner at home, at camp or on a marae – look at how many and how much is needed for the people eating (potatoes, bok choy, carrots, sausages). Talk about fractions (half, quarter, fourth) to calculate how much to cook and cooking times
helping at the supermarket – look for the best buy between different brands of the same item and different sizes of the same item (e.g., toilet paper, cans of spaghetti, bottles of milk)
looking at the nutrition table on food labels – how much fat, sugar, salt - and deciding on the healthiest choice
practising times tables – check with your child or their teacher which tables you could help them with.
