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Maths Activities Parents Can Do At Home

Kowhai
From starting school until Year 2, students generally work at Level 1 of the curriculum while  Year 3 students predominantly work at early Level 2.  

You may find that your child would benefit from, and also enjoy doing the tasks from the year before their current year level. Reviewing familiar maths and having success will build your child’s confidence and their belief in themselves as a ‘mathematician’. They will be solving realistic problems using their growing understanding of number, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics.  While solving these problems they will make use of basic addition, subtraction and early multiplication facts as well as developing their knowledge of place value.

Below is a link to selection of activities that will support your child’s maths learning at home. Remember it is okay to choose from any list of activities linked below. Be aware that you may need to provide added support when working above your child’s year level.  Year 1  /  Year 2  /  Year 3

These activities provide some ideas for how you can raise awareness and share mathematics using everyday experiences and resources found around your home. It includes ideas for supporting your children’s learning in all areas of mathematics: geometry, measurement, statistics, algebra and number. Maths in practical contexts

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Nikau
At Year 3 and 4, students generally work at Level 2 of the curriculum.  Year 3 students predominantly work at an early Level 2, while Year 4 students tend to become more proficient solving problems at this level.  You may find that your child would benefit from, and also enjoy doing the tasks from the year before their current year level. Reviewing familiar math and having easy success can build your child’s confidence and their belief in themselves as a ‘mathematician’. 

They will be solving realistic problems using their growing understanding of number, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics.  While solving these problems they will make use of basic addition, subtraction and simple multiplication facts and their knowledge of place value.  E-ako  provides free online basic fact learning tools which will help your child learn their basic facts, as well as a collection of games to improve their speed and accuracy.

Below is a link to selection of activities that will support your child’s math learning at home. Remember it is okay to choose from any list of activities linked below. Be aware that you may need to provide added support when working above your child’s year level.  Year 3 activities  /   Year 4 activities

These activities aim to help develop your child’s number knowledge at Level 2.  Number Knowledge Activities

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Pohutukawa
At year 5 they will be working at early curriculum level 3. At year 6 they will be working at curriculum level 3, solving realistic problems using their growing understanding of number, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics. They will be solving problems involving several steps, for which they need to choose the most appropriate method to help them solve the problem. They will be learning a range of approaches to solve problems and will be able to make general statements about numbers and patterns.

Exploring, questioning, working systematically, visualising, conjecturing, explaining, generalising, justifying, proving… are all at the heart of mathematical thinking.

Selection of Year 5 math activities to do at home 
Selection of Year 6 math activities to do at home 
Activities to help Year 5 and 6 students with developing number sense for whole and decimal numbers 
Activities to help Year 5 and 6 students with understanding place value 
Activities to help year 5 and 6 students with learning number facts

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Maths Activities Parents Can Do At Home
At Year 7, they will be working at early curriculum level 4. At Year 8, they will be working at curriculum level 4. At Level 4, there is a substantial increase in number knowledge as they gain understanding to be able to work with decimals, percentages and fractions. They will be solving problems involving several steps, for which they need to choose the most appropriate method to help them solve the problem.

Please be aware that the heading Stage 7,8  on some of these resources refers to Year 7,8.

Selection of Year 7&8 tasks to do at home 
Activities for Year 7&8 to understand fractions, decimals and percentages 
Activities to help Year 7&8 place with understanding place value 
Activities to help Year 7&8 with understanding number facts