Mathematics
Mrs Robyn Wilson - MaST - Mathematics Specialised Teacher
The Kindy students have beem learning all about length. Here are some photos of their learning.
The students are talking about their streamers.
Grace and Jack are checking who has the longest streamer.
Kindy is devising a way how to see who has the longest streamer.
The students all put their streamer down and talk about the length.
They carefully start their streamers along the carpet so the measuring is accurate.
More discussion about what they see.
A very small streamer.
Now they are lining them up in size longest to the shortest.
Who has the longest foot?
Molly's footprint.
Tracing around everyones feet.
The end result.
The students are talking about their streamers.
Grace and Jack are checking who has the longest streamer.
Kindy is devising a way how to see who has the longest streamer.
The students all put their streamer down and talk about the length.
They carefully start their streamers along the carpet so the measuring is accurate.
More discussion about what they see.
A very small streamer.
Now they are lining them up in size longest to the shortest.
Who has the longest foot?
Molly's footprint.
Tracing around everyones feet.
The end result.
The Stage 1 students are doing whole number in class this week. They were writing their number in words, plotting it on the numberline, doing its place value and drawing the number using number block representations. Here is some of their work.
Addy
Violet
Taylor
Priscilla
Lottie
Lachie
Hazel
Cash
Addy
Violet
Taylor
Priscilla
Lottie
Lachie
Hazel
Cash
Over the holidays you can continue to have some fun with maths with your child. Here are some simple activities that you can do to conslidate their math learning.
This is a video for parents to support mathematics in the real world. Everyday Maths - At the supermarket
More Counting tips:
- Count stairs, letter boxes,or objects in two, threes, fives and tens whenever opportunities arise;
- Put out the number of knives and forks needed for dinner and ask your child to count them in sets of two;
- Talk about numbers whenever opportunities arise. Ask questions such as “Which is bigger/smaller/the same/different?”, house numbers on long streets;
- Take note of larger numbers as they occur (e.g. house numbers, page numbers in books).
- Encourage your child to read the numbers and talk about other ways they could have been written.