This is an online version of this resource. When you buy the course it is provided in a printable PDF format.
Adventures in Living Mathematics : Are you looking for a way to ensure your child loves and understands maths? Do you want to teach your child different strategies for working mathematically? Then our Adventures in Living Mathematics is
for you. Created specifically for the younger student, this resource offers weekly lessons that encourages students to use hands-on methods for working through complex mathematical concepts, all designed specifically for the homeschool context.
Foundation Year includes Book 1 and Year One uses Book 2, ensuring your student addresses new NSW Mathematics Syllabus content.
Week 2 - Reading and Writing Numbers
As children are learning to read words and numbers they are discovering that, just like letters of the alphabet represent different sounds, numerals represent a number – a quantity – of something. While this seems straight-forward to adults, it is exciting to many children. Part of that is also learning place value. Simply, place value is the system which means that the position of a digit in a number determines its value. To begin with, children learn place value in relation to:
· units (or “ones”);
· tens; and then
· hundreds (up to one hundred).
Start this lesson by writing down the following numbers in your child’s Maths Notebook:
· 4
· 12
· 27
· 34
· 46
· 51
· 63
· 70
· 89
· 95
Then, going through each number, ask them to read the number aloud. Next, pick a couple of the numbers from that list, asking them to tell you the numbers before and after it. Take time to point out which digit is in the tens place and which is in the units place.
When you have covered that, swap to see if they can write the number this time. Ask them to write down the following numbers in their Maths Notebook:
· 1
· 10
· 100
· 22
· 45
· 50
· 67
· 99
Encourage them to check to see which digit is in the tens place and which is in the units place to write the whole number correctly. Please don’t worry if your child needs practice. It takes time. While some children are quick to understand place value and understand how to note the tens and units, others need more time and practice. Simply work at your child’s pace and encourage them.