Numeracy at home

Numeracy at Home 

As your child’s first teacher, you play an important role in helping develop their numeracy skills from an early age. Numeracy skills give children an important start to their learning and development. They also help prepare them for daily life at all ages. 

One way you can support your child’s understanding of mathematics and numeracy at home is… 

Encourage your child to ask questions to help them make sense of everyday situations.

 Respond to your child’s ideas by asking questions, such as: 

How much is there? 

Will there be enough? 

How big is it? 

Which way will I go? 

What might happen if…? 

Is it likely to happn? 

How do you know that? 

How many? 

Why does…?

 Problem of the Fortnight Work 

together with your family and see if you can find out the answers to the problems below. Hint: There is more than one possible answer!

 Lower Years

 My friend and I each had a piece of paper the same shape. We each cut our shape in half but when I looked I saw that my halves were a different shape than my friends halves. What might our original pieces of paper have looked like? 

Middle Years

 I write three invoices for different companies. The total amount of money was $785.60. How much might I have written on each invoice? 

Senior Years 

The answer to a calculation was 17.8. What might the calculation have been?

 How to be a Mathematician

We would love to see how families are engaging in numeracy at home, please feel free to send in any action shots to Felicity.Elliott@education.vic.gov.au