Maths News
Enrichment
Enrichment
We are extremely excited to announce that this year we will be introducing the Maths Olympiad program to extend and enrich those children who have been identified as gifted or talented in the area of Mathematics in years 3-6.
Maths Olympiad is specifically designed to stimulate and challenge Primary School age students with their Mathematics. It teaches major problem solving strategies and strengthens students’ mathematical abilities.
The program aims to:
- Introduce and extend students' understanding of mathematical concepts
- Teach major strategies and develop flexibility for problem solving.
- Foster creativity and ingenuity and strengthen intuition.
- Stimulate enthusiasm and enjoyment of mathematics.
- Provide for the satisfaction, joy and thrill of meeting challenges.
The year 1 and 2 children will also be participating in a maths Enrichment program that will be led by Robyn Atherton. They too, will have their learning enriched and extended by completing challenges and using problem solving strategies to solve real life problems in an engaging way.
Intervention
Once again this year, we are lucky enough to be able to offer Maths Intervention support to those students who require assistance to develop their maths skills from Year 2 to Year 6 . The students will work in small groups to enable targeted and personalised learning. Robyn Atherton will facilitate these sessions.
How can I help my child at home?
Experts believe playing games helps kids build important skills and knowledge to set them up for a lifetime of learning. There are many ways you can encourage your own children to engage in play-based learning centred around maths. Board games and card games teach number recognition and reinforce counting skills. Setting up a pretend “shop” at home using play money encourages mental arithmetic.
Even simple activities, such as counting jumps on the trampoline, playing with a puzzle or making repeating patterns with beads, can help kids improve their number and reasoning skills. Patterning is one of the key underlying structures of mathematics. Learning to identify patterns can greatly help a child’s numeracy skills.