Curriculum Corner

Mathematics @ Weeden Heights PS

This term all of the students have been improving their number skills and deepening their understanding of place value. They are provided with opportunities in their classroom to use concrete materials and other resources, to both challenge and support their learning. A variety of flexible approaches, together with the use of consistent mathematical language across the school, is helping them articulate their thinking effectively.

Here are some ideas that you can use with your children at home, to reinforce the mathematical concepts and skills they are taught at school:

• Cooking can involve weighing, measuring, ordering, estimating, adding, multiplying …
• Restaurants and shopping can involve money, number identification, estimating, adding, subtracting, division …
• Parties can involve matching numbers of people to plates, cutlery, area of tables, estimation,
• multiplication …
• Trips can involve time, distance, budgeting, speed, evaluating various routes, license plate games (e.g. adding or multiplying the numbers on the plate) …
• Home projects can involve estimation, measuring, multiplication …
• Gardening can involve measuring, counting, area, division …

These ideas all demonstrate how much math is involved in our daily lives and will support your child in his or her basic computation and problem-solving skills in natural, fun and real ways. Take advantage of math in the world…it is everywhere!

Save the date:  Mathematics Parent Information Session 6:30-7pm - Tuesday 7th May