Numeracy
Welcome
Hello Vermont families and welcome to the Numeracy section of the Nurlendi News! Here is where we will share any exciting resources, games or ideas that you may find interesting and enjoy using at home with your children.
Mathigon
Our first AMAZING resource is a website called Mathigon.
This website has games and manipulatives that can be used to support your child's mathematics learning.
The Polypad section has many useful visuals for learning about shapes, 3D objects and fractions. It also has helpful tools for building number sense and consolidating understandings such as an abacus/rekenrek, tens frames and part/psrt/whole dot collections.
The website has plenty of other amazing sections. Have a play and enjoy!
Addition and Subtraction Game F-2
This game is called 'Get out of my house!' Here is a quick demo video from lovemaths.me. This is a fantastic website for ideas to support maths learning at home.
Concepts covered: Addition and subtraction
Equipment: Deck of playing cards, paper and pens
Good questions to ask while playing: “What’s the other number you can make?” (When kids start playing, they may only focus on what they can make by adding the two cards and fail to consider the subtraction option.); “Explain to me how you got __?”; “Do you think it is better to add or subtract the two numbers? Why?”; “Is it a good idea to place lots of tokens on the one square? Why/why not?”; “What would you do differently next time you played?”
Maths Parent Videos
The students at Vermont Primary School have developed a large set of instructional videos which are designed to help parents work with their children on Maths at home.
To access the videos go to https://au.accessit.online/VRM00/#!landingPage.
Your username is your child's Student ID Number. The password is vpsread.
Have a look and we're sure you'll find them useful!