Big Ideas in Mathematics

Hello families,

Last week in Collaborative Planning, classroom teachers and I continued our discussion around the development of the Big Ideas in Mathematics for our students. Here at TPS, we explicitly teach and monitor student understanding around the Big Ideas, through explicit teaching and assessment, as these are essential learnings for all students’ numeracy development.

In particular, we are noticing that Multiplicative Thinking continues to challenge our students. Multiplicative Thinking begins in Foundation and is crucial to our Year 3 and 4 students, preparing them for next steps in relation to fractions and decimals.

When teaching multiplication and division we use real world problems, concrete materials, arrays, symbols and stories to develop the concept before students can retrieve facts automatically.

I have included the link to 1234 Numeracy Guide for parents who wish for a resource to support their child at home and encourage you to challenge your child in their (and perhaps your own) multiplication facts! Numeracy at home

Ms Barnett wants to order a ruler for every student in the school. Rulers can be bought in packs of 8 for $2.25. If TPS has 260 students, how many packs will she need to purchase?

How much will it cost?

Happy learning!

Miss Barnett

Book Club

Scholastic Book Club is a service offered to students, parents and teachers. Brochures advertising a variety of books and computer software are sent home with each student, approximately twice a term.

Purchase of the books is not compulsory and there is no obligation. If you do wish to purchase any goods simply log into the Book Club site www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP and follow the prompts. All Book Club orders must be ordered and paid for via LOOP. Do not send order forms and cash to school. When the order arrives at school, books are sent home with students.

The School earns “Bonus Points” for each order which can be used to purchase new resources for the Library.

Issue 2 orders should be in by the end of next week and Issue 3 will be out early in term 2.

Click here for the Scholastic Book Club Parent Log in page or to register for new users.

How to order

Click on ORDER in the top menu or REGISTER first to save your details for the first time. Select Teesdale PS and your child’s class. Add your child’s name and last initial. Enter the item number from the brochure.

You can order for multiple children at once. All orders are linked directly to the school.

Our school receives bonus points, which are redeemed for a variety of books for the children therefore we thank you for your continued support.

If parents wish to collect orders personally from the office, please let the school know.

Please go to www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP and find Teesdale Primary School to order or alternatively you can download the LOOP app via the App Store or Google Play.

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