Mathematics 

Combining quantities (addition)

In kindergarten the new syllabus focuses on:

• addition and 

• number pairs which make 10.

Below is our amazing Kindy students doing addition in class.

You can help your Kindergarten child at home by:

• playing adding board games such as Snakes and Ladders
• using everyday materials to model addition. For example, start with 5 spoons from the cutlery drawer, now add 4 more spoons. How many are there altogether? 
• using things you find around the house

• Create an addition machine using a shoe box and two cups with the bottoms cut out. Students roll two dice and then use the machine to work out the answer by putting balls/counters through the cups to add the two numbers together. A great hands-on activity to consolidate the concept of simple addition.

• Using Jenga blocks, write simple addition sums on sticky labels and stick a variety sums to the end of each block. Played just like Jenga, however the students must work out the answer to the addition sum before they can attempt to remove the block.

• Beads and Cards Adding Activity -This activity can be varied to suit the resources you have available to you. We used a deck of cards, you could also use two dice depending on the skill level of your students. Students pull two cards from a deck of cards. They then thread the beads onto the pipe cleaner to show the two numbers. The students then have concrete objects to count to work out the answer to the number sentence.

(These ideas were sourced from Teacher Starter)