Help to develop maths and numeracy skills at home…
Primary 1-2
- Number rhymes and songs
- Counting forwards and backwards within 10 and then 20
- Counting objects
- Recognising dice patterns – spotting doubles – snap
- Recognising finger patterns – number before and number after
- Counting in twos
- Addition to 10, i.e 5 + ? = 10, 7 + ? = 10
- Sharing an amount equally
- Bingo, card games, board games
- Number lines
Primary 3-5
- Quick number facts to 100 i.e 20 + ? = 100, 100 – ? = 40, 27 + ? = 100, 100 – 58 = ?
- Counting up in 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, 6s, 4s, 8s, 7s, 9s
- Counting back in 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, 6s, 4s, 8s, 7s, 9s
- Table facts, multiplication and division
- Finding halves, fifths, quarters, tenths, etc of numbers
- Card games and dice games
- Telling the time – wearing an analogue watch (clock face)
- Measuring and weighing at home – helping to bake
- Money – work out cost and give change from £1/£5/£10
Primary 6-7
- Quick table facts
- Finding fractions of whole numbers
- Finding percentages, 10%, 20%, 50%, 35%, 82%
- Quick mental number facts, 100 – 43 = ?, 1000 – 350 = ?, 420 + ? = 1000, 6.2 + ? = 10, 89.02 + ? = 100
- Tell time, digital, analogue and 24 hour
- Read timetables, bus, train and workout time to get places
- Money – work out cost and give change from £20
Useful Websites
http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/web-sites/4_11/site/numeracy.shtml
