Maths practice

For those that are interested I have shared a maths activity that children can do at home (I have also encouraged them to do this).

The idea with this game/practice task is to encourage children to correctly identify numbers from 10-99 (with 2 piles) and from 100-999 (with 3 piles).  It does seem very simple but there are still some children who will read numbers incorrectly e.g 65 is sometimes interpreted by children as 56, and with three digit numbers this confusion becomes more pronounced.

Helpful hint is to talk about how many tens and how many ones are in the numbers if they are struggling

Number flip

Equipment needed:  1 pack of card
                                 (taking out picture cards such as king, queen ... also take out all the
                                 10's - Leave Aces in the pack as they work as 1's)

Instructions

1. split pack into 2 (or three) piles and place these face down.
2. turn over one card from each pile and place these on-top of the rest of the pile.
3. children then correctly practice saying the number in front of them

Extentions

• split pack into 3 piles.
• practice writing number names (correctly)
• practice saying the number that come before/after
• practice saying the number that is 10 more/less
• HEAPS OF OTHER THINGS TO but these ones fit the purpose of what we are doing.