DIVISION AND MULTIPLICATION

Mrs Chicken laid 12 eggs.  Farmer Joe came down with his basket to carry the eggs home.  However, he could only carry 3 eggs in the basket at a time.  How many times did he have to go down to the hen house to bring the eggs back?

(And by the way:  Get a bigger basket was not the answer!)

Awwww boys - you were right - 4 trips.  

You know that 12 divided by 4 = 3.  Tino pai rawa atu.  

You are maths wizards.  

New Maths Activities

Check out our new maths links down the side of our blog.  Click on the sites and enjoy the learning!  Have fun :-)

Maths This Week

This week you can help your child at home with their Maths learning by focusing on - 

• doubles to 10 - help your child to know the answer to 1 + 1 = 2,  2 + 2 = 4,  3 + 3 = 6,  4 + 4 = 8,  5 + 5 = 10 instantly - that is, without having to work it out.  If they know these, focus on doubles to 20.
• ordering numbers to 10 - e.g.) put 5 2 8 3 9 in order from the smallest to the biggest.  If they know how to do this, try ordering numbers to 20.

Here are two website links that can help your child with both of these knowledge steps.

Doubles to 10

Robin Hood Doubles

Monkey Ordering

Caterpillar Ordering

Have fun!

Focus on Fractions

This week we have been learning to find half of a shape and a quarter of shape.  We now know that it needs to be an equal share and that it has to be fair!
Here is a page of shapes that we cut into quarters...

Counting to 100

What's up in Room 1?

We have had an amazing start to Term 2.  Our topic focus is Bees.  Today we drew what we thought a bee looked like and we also talked about what we already knew - we even have bees hanging from the middle of our classroom.... check them out :-)

At Maths time we are looking at seriation - ordering shapes from the smallest to the biggest.  We started this today and looked at the Gingerbread Man story.  

Our story this week is "Grumpy Elephant" and today we cut up a sentence, matching words underneath.  Here is Jamie-Lee's work.

Maths for Week 8

For Maths this week, as a class focus, we are learning to order numbers to 10.

Circles Group are learning to recognise numbers and make sets to 10.  We will be using the app Doodle Buddy to create sets - 

Squares are learning to say the number before and after to 10. 

Diamonds are learning to add small numbers using their fingers.

We are turning into real mathematicians!
KEEP FOCUSING ON YOUR KNOWLEDGE SHEETS IN YOUR HOMEWORK BOOKS!