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Mathematics: If Your Child Is Meeting The Mathematics Standard After Two Years at School..

The document provides information for parents on supporting their child's mathematics learning after two years of schooling. It outlines what skills children should demonstrate at curriculum level 1, including counting, sorting, measuring, and solving basic word problems. The document encourages parents to incorporate math into everyday activities at home through games, stories, chores, and conversations to reinforce concepts like numbers, patterns, addition, and subtraction. It emphasizes creating a positive environment and communicating with teachers to best support each child's mathematical development.

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Mathematics: If Your Child Is Meeting The Mathematics Standard After Two Years at School..

The document provides information for parents on supporting their child's mathematics learning after two years of schooling. It outlines what skills children should demonstrate at curriculum level 1, including counting, sorting, measuring, and solving basic word problems. The document encourages parents to incorporate math into everyday activities at home through games, stories, chores, and conversations to reinforce concepts like numbers, patterns, addition, and subtraction. It emphasizes creating a positive environment and communicating with teachers to best support each child's mathematical development.

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The

N ew Zeala
nd Curriculum AFTER
2 YEARS AT SCHOOL

mathematics
?
AT SCHOOL
Imagine there are 9 spoons
and 12 cereal bowls.
Each bowl needs a spoon.
If your child is meeting the Mathematics How many more spoons
Standard after two years at school... are needed?

...they will be working at curriculum level 1,


solving realistic problems using their
growing understanding of number, algebra,
geometry, measurement and statistics.
They will be counting forwards and
backwards, in their heads, from the
biggest number, rather than starting at
one. They may use their fingers to help
them keep track of numbers.
Mat

To meet the standard


hs

ob
pr

your child will be learning to: lem


s at th
is level might
solve problems using numbers up to 100 look like this:
count in 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and
backwards
find ½ and ¼ of simple shapes and sets
of objects
sort objects into common groups and I worked this out by
describe what they have done counting on from 9 – 10, 11, 12.
ask and answer questions and display So, 3 more spoons
their findings are needed.

give and follow directions


measure objects using their hands,
feet or a pencil.
This is a small part of the
skills and knowledge your Focus on number
child is learning in order to During your child’s second year at school,
meet this standard. Talk to 60–80 percent of mathematics teaching
the teacher for more time will focus on number learning.
information about your
child’s learning.

Work together...
Help support your child’s learning by building a good relationship with your child’s teacher,
finding out how your child is doing and working together to support their learning.
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S MATHEMATICS
MATHEMATICS

AT HOME is an
Mathematics f
rt o
important pa ere
Talk together and have fun and th
Use easy, everyday everyday life
ays you can
with numbers and patterns activities are lots of w
r your child.
make it fun fo
Help your child to: Involve your child in:
find and connect numbers around your home sorting (washing, odd socks, toys, cans) while
and neighbourhood; e.g., 7 on a letterbox, 17 tidying up
on another and 27 on another
telling you what their favourite things are –
count forwards and backwards starting with food, sport, colour
different numbers (e.g., 58, 59, 60, 61, 62,
then back again) reading – notice and talk about numbers.
Ask questions about the pictures like “how
make patterns when counting forwards and many birds are there?”
backwards (e.g., “5, 10, 15, 20 then 20, 15, 10,
5 and 30, 40, 50, 60 or 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 …”) a shape and number search together
wherever you are, like numbers of shoes,
do addition and subtraction problems by shapes of doors and windows.
counting forwards or backwards in their
heads (e.g., 8 + 4, 16 – 3)
count the number of poi in a kapa
haka performance Being positive about
learn their ‘ten and...’ facts mathematics is really dance to music and sing/clap to
’s
(e.g., 10 + 4, 10 + 7) important for your child favourite songs
double and halve numbers to 20 learning – even if you make and play stick games with
ll
(e.g., 7 + 7 is 14, half of 14 is 7). didn’t enjoy it or do we tï räkau or newspaper rolls
.
at it yourself at school play with a pack of cards - make up
addition and subtraction problems
using numbers to 20

For wet afternoons/school holidays/weekends look at a calendar – “how many


days/weeks until an event?”, “how
many days in the month?”, “how
Get together with your child and: many weekends?”. Encourage your
child to look for patterns.
use mathematics words during play (treasure hunts, obstacle
courses, building huts) – “under”, “over”, “between”, “around”,
“behind”, “up”, “down”, “heavy”, “light”, “round”, “your turn next”,
“before”, “after”, “left” and “right”, “square”, “triangle” – you can
use your first language
rning
u r c h i l d is lea
play with big cardboard boxes using words like “inside”, “outside” y yo tics
The wa lve mathema rent
play games and do puzzles; e.g., jigsaws, “I spy something that is to so ay be d e at
iffe
l e m s m r
you we w you
longer, bigger, smaller than...”
prob h e n
from w sho
do water play using different shaped containers and measuring cups
l . G e t them to upport
bake – talk to your child about the recipe/ingredients and how many schoo y do it and s g.
e
pieces you need to feed everyone how th n their learnin
them i

Support your child...


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As parents, family and whänau you play a big part in your child’s learning
every day, and you can support and build on what they learn at school too. www.minedu.govt.nz/Parents

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