Mathematics
Hello VPS families, and welcome to the Numeracy section of the Nurlendi News! This is where we’ll share exciting resources, fun games, and practical ideas and updates you can enjoy at home with your children to support their mathematical learning.
Maths in Grade 2
Year Two have been completing some fun, engaging and hands on Maths activities. We have been consolidating our knowledge of place value and using that to help us work with open number lines. Some students have been working with 3-digit numbers, while others are working with decimals. Below are some photos. We were also comparing numbers using ‘Pacman’ to help us decide!
Fun Game to play at home
We love playing Maths Games in Grade 2! Our favourites are ‘Get Out of My House!’, ‘Double Hat Trick’ and ‘Guess My Number’. Below is a game we play quite often as a warm up. It’s called '5 moves to 100'. Watch the clip and have some fun playing with your family! Credit to Michael Minas from ‘LoveMaths’ for the game.
Maths Challenge at Home
When Jack was one year old, his mother bought a pack of 24 candles. She put one candle on his birthday cake.
When Jack was two he had two candles on his cake, and when he was three he had three candles, and so on.
One day Jack's little sister Kate was born. She had one candle on her first birthday cake, two candles on her second birthday cake, and so on.
On one of Jack's birthdays, there were exactly enough candles left for Jack's mother to put the candles on his birthday cake. After that, the packet was empty.
How old was Jack when Kate was born? And how old was each of them when the candles finally ran out?