Math Comes Alive Get your child to count aloud, count in twos

Use mathematical language:

How many more? How many fewer?

Math Comes Alive

Get your child to identify shapes and patterns around them.

Math Comes Alive Measuring length: Use standard and non-standard units of measurement

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Math Comes Alive Immerse your child in a Math

environment to create awareness. Mark out the length of 1m in your

childs room.

1m

1m

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Math Comes Alive Measuring mass

Reading the scales

Heavier than

Get them to feel the mass of things

Lighter than

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Math Comes Alive Money What is the change

received? If 5 oranges are sold for $2.50, what is the cost of 1 orange?

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Math Comes Alive

Volume Reading the amount of fluid on the packet drinks and bottles

Compare the volume

Which has a greater volume?

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Math Comes Alive Multiplication & Division

Bundle ice-cream sticks:

Groups of 5

Groups of 10 No. of groups x No. of items in 1 group

4 x 3 = 12

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Math Comes Alive Fractions

If your child eats a slice of the pizza, what fraction of the pizza is left?

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Math Comes Alive

Time

Name parts of an analogue clock. Develop a sense of time and duration from personal experience.

Math Comes Alive Time

Tell time in terms of oclock and half past

P2 Tell and write time to 5 minutes

- Use a.m. and p.m. Eg: 8.00 a.m. - Draw hands on the clock face to show time

S S

T T

I

T T

C C

H H

Questioning Through Games & Hands-on

Activities

Game One : Number Bursting

What youll need :

1. Paper / Jotter book

/Journal

2. Timer

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

How To Play :

How many ways can you

make 15?

How else can you adapt this game?

Fractions Money Multiplication / Division Numbers which do not have 2, 5 or 0 in the ones place

What is the Mathematics?

Number Bonds / Part Whole Looking for Patterns Place Value

Game Two : Tug of War

What youll need :

1. Kebab beads

2. A 6-sided dice

How To Play :

Pair Activity

Divide 10 beads to each child

Throw dice

Take beads from friends side

I have ____, you have ____

What is the Mathematics?

Number Bonds Making Tens Mental Calculation

Game Three : Headache

What youll need :

1. Number Cards

2. Pencil

& Paper

How To Play :

Play in 3s 1 to oversee

2 pupils pick a card each dont look

at the number they have place on

forehead.

Overseer creates total with the blocks

Card holder to guess their own

numbers

What is the Mathematics?

Addition & Subtraction Number Bonds Mental Calculation

Lets Reflect

Non-threatening environment Cooperative learning Diagram-drawing Task-focus Looking for all possibilities