Maths

Maths is all around you!

You can explore maths while doing daily activities to help develop your children’s maths and numeracy skills. With the upcoming July school holidays here are some suggestions for exploring Maths together in your home:

Maths in Cooking:

• Cooking is all about maths! And it’s something we can all do. Get children to read instructions, measure ingredients and ask questions about the maths involved. 
• Maths skills to explore: Measuring and quantities, time, fractions, estimation, temperature.
  Suggestion:  
  HOMEMADE PUMPKIN SOUP

Maths in Sport and Exercise:

• Many children love sport, but often don’t realise how much maths there is in it! Ask questions about performance statistics, compare and analyse players. Or try footy tipping as a way to analyse team performance. Exercise is an opportunity! Estimate how far you will run today, and how long it will take. 
• Maths skills to explore: Distance, time, speed, estimating, statistics, comparing, data and data display
• Suggestion: 
  • Use an app like Strava to record activity and look at the stats.
    
     

Maths in the Game:

• Games are an awesome way to have fun with maths, any games with counting and dice help develop basic number sense. Many games explore money (Think Monopoly!) and puzzles often work with pattern and shape.
• Maths skills to explore: Numbers, counting, addition, money, number recognition, pattern, shape.
• Some of my favourite board games to play include:
  • Ticket to Ride 
  • Sequence 
  • Harry Potter: Battle of Hogwarts

For more information on ways to include Maths in your everyday activities at home please see the following article from the Mathematics Association of Victoria website:

https://www.mav.vic.edu.au/Resources/Parents/Secondary-School-parent-support