Numeracy News

FUN NUMERACY ACTIVITIES TO SHARE AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD?

The home environment and family outings provide great contexts for engaging your children in numerate behaviours. Look at the images below – can you see where the numeracy opportunities are?

Have you set enough places for everyone? Have you got the same number of forks, knives and spoons? Let’s count them.

What temperature should the oven be to cook muffins? How long will it take to cook the moussaka?

How many hours have you recorded in your driver log book? How have you calculated the hours from taking various short trips?

How do you organise the part-time job rosters at your work? What do you need to know to arrange your timetable? What tax do you pay on your part-time job?

The next town is 30 kilometres away – how long do you think it will take us to get there?

How much flour do we need? How can we measure it? How many eggs do we need? How much batter do we need to fill the moulds?

Sandi McGeagh, an experienced kindergarten teacher, shares her advice for noticing that maths is everywhere to promote rich mathematical language in the video below.