NUMERACY
As your child’s first teacher, you play an important role in helping develop their numeracy skills from an early age.
Numeracy skills give children an important start to their learning and development. They also help prepare them for daily life at all ages. For example, in handling money and problem solving.
Numeracy is more than numbers. For example, numeracy helps us:
Numeracy is necessary for everyday living. From daily activities like telling the time, cooking and setting the table to more difficult tasks such as understanding mobile phone plans, planning a trip, reading a map and understanding timetables.
Numeracy skills give children an important start to their learning and development. They also help prepare them for daily life at all ages. For example, in handling money and problem solving.
Numeracy is more than numbers. For example, numeracy helps us:
- understand and use numbers and other mathematical ideas in everyday life
- recognise and use shape
- work out the chance of something happening
- understand the data we see in the media.
Numeracy is necessary for everyday living. From daily activities like telling the time, cooking and setting the table to more difficult tasks such as understanding mobile phone plans, planning a trip, reading a map and understanding timetables.
possible activities
- Choose a Which one doesn’t Belong (WODB) and ask students to annotate and discuss their ideas https://wodb.ca/
- Find an interesting image to use as a Unit Chat (also known as a how many?) https://mathforlove.com/lesson/unit-chats/
- Share an Open Middle problem for students to solve https://www.openmiddle.com/
- Challenge students to solve a Yohaku Puzzle https://www.yohaku.ca/
- Conduct a Number Talk - Steve Wyborney has some great examples https://stevewyborney.com/
- Use the Sesame Street idea of having a number of the day and challenge students to find any examples of that number (or shape or angle or measure) in the environment.
- Use the images and videos in 101 questions to prompt student thinking and spark possible investigations https://www.101qs.com/
- Play an online game, such as those found on NRICH, set a record and have students attempt to beat it https://nrich.maths.org/9086
- Visit James Russo’s Surf Maths for examples of more games and activities http://www.surfmaths.com/