Numeracy

More Maths to get your kids Moving!

With school holidays approaching soon, here are some more ways to get your child moving and away from screens.

  • Make a splash with water balloons. Your kids may get a little wet for this one, but kids simply adore math games (or any games!) with water balloons. Write numbers with chalk on the ground. Have your child choose a balloon, give them a problem to solve (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) and get them to splat their balloon on the correct answer!
  • Steal the balls with addition robbery. Kids compete to see whose basket of balls will add up to the highest amount. The trick? They don’t know at the beginning which balls are worth the most. Learn how to play here https://thatafterschoollife.com/addition_robbery.html
  • Design an outdoor board game. Draw a winding path and fill the spaces with maths equations. Kids roll the dice and move from space to space (have them jump, skip, or twirl to mix things up). If they get the answer right, they move to the new space. If not, their turn is over.
  • Bowling with bottles. Set up empty plastic bottles labelled one through 10, then roll the ball to see how many you can knock down. Add up the numbers of the knocked-over bottles to get your score.
  • Draw a colourful maths facts garden. For this one, kids draw a basic flower with 10 numbered petals as shown in the photo. Then they write a number to multiply (or add or subtract) by in the middle, and fill in the petals with the correct answers.

Lea Drury

Mathematics Leader