This section provides information and links to help parents, families and children enjoy maths activities together.
East Ayrshire Parental Engagement Pack
The East Ayrshire SAC team developed a parental engagement pack with a range of activities to support family learning in numeracy and maths
East Ayrshire Parental Engagement Pack – Numeracy
Maths Through Stories Family Activities
The SAC Numeracy Team have developed a range of activities for parents and children linked to the theme of a story. The activities provide an opportunity investigate the maths within and based on the theme of a story.
Maths in the Outdoors
The following link provides ideas for parents to engage children in maths activity when in the outdoors:
Outdoor Maths Activities for Parents and Children
East Ayrshire Home Learning Hub
East Ayrshire Home Learning Hub has been developed by the Families and Communities team to support family learning across the curriculum. You will find links to numeracy activities here.
Family Literacy and Youth Literacy Videos
Family Literacy and Youth Literacy Video Links
The East Ayrshire Family and Youth Literacy Team have created a number of videos showcasing some great ideas used by the team to engage families in numeracy and literacy learning.
Numeracy Strategies for Parents
The link below takes you to a series of videos have been created to share some of the approaches to teaching and learning in numeracy, calculation strategies and terminology currently being developed across schools in East Ayrshire.
Numeracy Strategies for Parents/Carers
The National Numeracy website have developed a Family Maths Toolkit to support family learning in numeracy and maths. There are a range of activities here with a focus on where maths can be found in everyday life.
Education Scotland have provided support for parents and carers in numeracy and mathematics in their Scotland Learns – Numeracy and Mathematics site.
The videos provide support for parents and carers supporting their childrens learning in numeracy and mathematics.
The Parentzone – supporting numeracy site provides a number of links and activities to support family learning in numeracy.
The National Centre in the Teaching of Mathematics have created a site Support for Parents and Carers Helping Children with Maths This site provides links to activities and lessons.
Solving Together is an exciting project, funded by Nesta and Tata, which aims to promote parental engagement with mathematics. This project focuses on family-friendly homework activities for age 11-12 students. We suggest that parents/carers and their children work together on one activity each week, over a six week period. Parents and carers may wish to watch the Guidance for Parents video before trying out the activities with children.
The Guidance for Teachers explains the thinking behind this project, and offers suggestions for how to follow up the homework activities in class.
Erikson Early Math – Family Maths
The Erikson Early Math Collaborative have provided links to resources and activities to support family learning focussed on early level numeracy and maths. A great site for supporting Early Level maths development.
ATM experts are sharing ideas through Maths Snacks videos, to support children and parents whilst children are away from school for whatever reason. The videos are a mix of tasks, puzzles, challenges and games; selected to support and enrich mathematics taught at school.
Many videos can be accessed by very young children, with a little bit of adult support, and all are relevant to pupils across the school age range. There’s hardly ever a single right answer and there are many ways of working on tasks. The videos are designed to entice and to focus on working in the ways mathematicians do; such as exploring situations, looking for patterns and rules, asking questions and seeking answers, and trying out and testing ideas.
Kentucky Family Math is a site dedicated to supporting family learning in maths and has a range of activities that are engaging for parents, carers and children.
Bedtime Math is an app that provides daily maths activities linked to a bedtime story. A lovely way for parents, carers and children to develop literacy and numeracy skills together.
