Number Lines

As part of Toki Pounamu we'll be experimenting with making lessons available so that they can be revisited by the students and whanau as home learning or in class. Here is a quick breakdown of a concept a couple of groups worked on in maths this week. I recommend sitting down with your child to look at the concept sometime in the next week or so. Feel free to adjust the numbers to make them bigger or smaller depending on what suits their ability. In group lessons I have lots of fun making up funny or interesting word problems to go with the equations. Here are some ideas you could use in a home learning situation:

• watch the video with your child
• get them to show you the concept or figure it out together
• make up some examples and do them together
• make up some funny or interesting word problems to go with your equations
• challenge family members or friends to your word problems   
• link it with your writing in other ways e.g., make a pocket book of maths problems or a how to guide for this maths concept or similar
• search Maths Buddy for number lines or tidy numbers concepts. Choose a lesson at your level and give it a go. If the lesson you find's too hard or too easy find the same concept in a level up or down.