Maths at Home

Hundreds Chart Use the hundred chart as a number line to do addition and subtraction beyond what your child normally can handle. Take turns making up problems for each other to solve. Play “Race to 100”. Take turns rolling the dice and moving that many spaces on the hundreds chart. The first person to reach or pass 100 wins! Practise skip counting e.g. counting by 5s, 10s. See if the student can notice any patterns. To extend this, start at an unusual number e.g. start at 37 counting in 2s, or count by tens starting at 24.

Tens Frame Roll and Build – roll one or two dice and build that with counters onto their tens frame/s Make a Ten - Roll a dice and build that number with counters. Ask the student to find out how many more counters they would need to get to ten Try arranging counters to make a number in different ways. Discuss which way made the number the easiest to count/recognise

Alternative Maths Resources at Home For counters you could try using bottletops, buttons, shells, beads or even yummy things like chocolate drops! Muffin trays Egg Cartons Lego

Incidental Maths Opportunities Cooking – letting the student measure out and weigh ingredients, counting the number of cakes/biscuits, discussing temperatures etc. Counting – counting as they walk along the street etc Shopping – recognising numbers in the prices of foods, looking for how many in a packet etc. Looking for shape/colour/sound patterns Board games - e.g. snakes and ladders which involves dice and counting Involving maths in your shared reading e.g. for Hairy MacLary – how many different dogs can you see?