Numeracy Report 

Maths at our house: Going Places

It is easy to turn “going somewhere” into a maths experience by being on the lookout for numbers, shapes and patterns.

These types of activities help to raise the awareness of mathematics in the environment and encourage your children to notice and figure out things. It can be practice of things they know or a challenge. A notebook in the car or in your bag can be a place where you ask them to write things down you notice as you are “going places.”

• Driving in the car
• Bus or train trips
• Walking to school or the shops
• Number: Find a number and use it as a “Launchpad” for counting backwards or forwards or in jumps of two or ten.
•  Patterns: One day walk on the even number side of the street and the next on the odd number side. Notice which numbers are on the two sides. 
   
• Time: Count the seconds while waiting for the light to change, notice anywhere there is a clock along the way. 
   

• Money: Notice all the signs that have dollars on them: for example, petrol stations, supermarkets, and car yards. 
   
• Shapes: Choose a shape and find objects in that shape along the way. You can choose two dimensional-shapes (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles etc) or three-dimensional objects (boxes, balls, cones, pyramids). 

• Statistics: Choose one colour of car to count on the way. On the way home or the next time choose a different one. Keep going for several trips. What colour seems to be the most common? The least common?

Kind Regards, 

Klaudia Jellis

Leader of Mathematics