The Learning Zone
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one
teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
Week , Term 2
The Math's Space
Early Stage 1 is loving using the concrete materials to show their combining of groups. To support your child’s learning at home you may like to try some of the tips below:
- Encourage your child to help you when out shopping by counting and collecting objects to put into the basket, e.g. ‘Can you get 2 apples? (add more) How many do we have altogether?’
- When playing with building bricks or small toys, encourage your child to count how many of each colour or size.
- Play simple board games and encourage your child to count the spots shown on the dice and the number of spaces to move.
- Sing number-themed ......... counting rhymes and use your fingers or small props to help count the items, e.g. 10 Green Bottles.
Stage 1 has been working hard on building their number sense and has now moved on to subtraction. Students have the opportunity to use a range of concrete materials as well as pictures to support their understanding and thinking of this mathematical concept. To continue the learning at home you may like to use some of the suggestions below:
- practising quick recall of double numbers to 10. Use double domino tiles to extend thinking to doubling numbers to 20
- finding and discussing numbers in everyday life that are not meant to be used with place value, such as phone numbers, pin numbers, bus numbers and postcodes
- using number bonds, or ‘friends of 10’, to assist with simple addition and subtraction problems. For example, 4 + 6 = 10, 6 + 4 = 10, 10 - 4 = 6, 10 - 6 = 4
This week Stage 2 started their Patterns and Multiplication unit, the children were exceptionally excited for this unit. We started off modelling, describing and recording various patterns of multiples, Our young ones got an opportunity to create and continue their own variety of number patterns that increase and decrease by a consistent amount as well as recognising the significance of the final digit of a whole number to determine whether a given number is odd or even. We experimented with the Numicon blocks and had a blast with our rotations and small group work.
Stage 3 has been focusing on time this week. They have been exploring a range of different scenarios and comparing the elapsed time between events. Students have had the opportunity to read a range of different timetables and even had the opportunity to make their own on their perfect school day!