Crayon shapes! - Pre Kinder

What You Need:

• White drawing paper
• Crayons
• Watercolor paints
• Paint brushes
• Small container for water

What You Do:

1. Get started by taping a piece of white paper onto a worktable, or the tray of a high chair.
2. Give your child a selection of crayons to use, and encourage him to fill his paper with shapes of all different sizes and colors. This is a great opportunity to introduce him to some new shapes that he may be unfamiliar with, such as stars, moons, and ovals! Show him some examples on a separate piece of paper.
3. Once his paper is filled with shapes, remove the crayons and place a small cup of water, a paintbrush, and watercolor paints within reach. Invite him to paint over the crayon shapes he drew with watercolor paints, and watch the crayon shapes pop through the paint.
4. Next, encourage him to continue dipping his paint brush in water and a color of paint. This fine tunes his color recognition and hand-eye coordination!
5. Urge him to to continue painting until his entire paper is covered with paint, without any white paper showing through. Your child’s finished pattern resist can be proudly displayed in a colorful frame for everyone to see!

Examples of Mental Maths questions!

1. Write in figures the number 69. 

2. Write the missing number: (64 = ? + 4) (60)

3. What number is halfway between 9 and 13? (11)

4. What is the nearest 10 to 33? (30)

5. How many corners has a triangle? (3)

6. Five add three add two. (10)

7. Twelve take away four. (8)

8. What is 2 times 5? (10)

9. Divide 6 by 3. (2)

10. How many centimetres are there in 1 metre? (100)

11. I have £14. I am given another £9. How much do I have now? (£23)

12. How many days are there in the month of December? (31)

13. Frank buys a T-shirt for £5.99 and a pair of socks for £1.99. How much do they cost altogether? (£7.98)

Maths vocabulary - Four basic operations

Additon:

Addition – Increase by… - How many altogether… - Plus – Total – The sum of…

Subtraction:

Take away – Difference between – How many more… - Minus – Less than… - Decrese

Multiplication:

Times by… - Product of … - Mutiplied by … - Multiple of… - Lots of… - Times as

Divide:

Shared between – Share – Shared by – Divided by… - How many groups of… - Shared among

Subtraction is fun! 2nd Grade activity

Careful subtraction is an important skill. Flash cards can get repetitive and your child may lose interest in practicing. Try this fun game for an exciting change! Roll the dice and hope for big numbers! Players begin with 99 points. On each turn, they'll subtract the total they roll on the dice. The first player to reach or pass zero wins! Subtracting has never been so fun, and the competitive spirit of this game will keep your child engaged and ready to learn.

What You Need:

• 2 dice
• Paper and pencil for each player for keeping score

What You Do:

1. Have each player write "99" at the top of their papers, as the starting number.
2. Players take turns rolling the dice, finding the dice sum and then subtracting that sum from the starting number. After computing their result, the score is recorded and the dice pass to the next player.
3. Play continues until one person reaches or goes below zero.

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Patterns with Paper beads - PreKinder activity

What You Need:

• several colors of construction paper
• a pencil or knitting needle
• glue
• scissors
• yarn
• masking tape

What You Do:

1. Cut the paper into strips (5 inches long and ½ inch wide). Roll each strip of paper around a pencil or knitting needle. Once you’ve formed the shape, slide the paper out and put a drop of glue on the end to hold the paper in place. Press firmly until the glue dries. Repeat using at least two colors.
2. Once the beads are dry, they’re ready to use. Cut a piece of yarn into the appropriate length for your child’s necklace or bracelet, wrap a piece of masking tape around one end to make stringing easier, knot the other end, and set them to work!

Teach your child to string a simple sequence of A-B-A-B. Make sure to say the pattern aloud to help her make the connection between what’s on her piece of yarn, and what she hears. You can say, “This is an A-B-A-B pattern” or “This is a red-yellow-red-yellow pattern”.

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4th Grade - Addition game with a deck of cards!

It's a race to see who can hit the target first by working math problems faster than their opponent.

What You Need:

• A deck of playing cards

What You Do:

1. Remove the 12 face cards from the deck and set them aside.
2. Shuffle the rest of the deck and deal four cards face down to each player. Turn the next card face up in the center of the table. This is the target number.
3. At the count of three, all players turn their cards over at the same time. Then they add, subtract, multiply, or divide the numbers on their cards (Aces = 1) and try to equal the target number. All four cards must be used!
4. The first player to equal the target number wins a point, and 3 points wins the game.
5. If no one can equal the target number, turn over another card for a new target number, or deal again.

Here's the winning strategy: keep rearranging your cards until you see the right combination. Also, try to group a pair of cards together.

Another variation would be to put in some of the face cards. They could be wild cards and used in your hand as any number. If the four-card game is too easy, deal five cards to each player.

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Prime Numbers - Fun activity for 5th Graders!

What You Need:

·         Colour felt-tip pens

·         A hundreds chart

Review: A prime number is a whole number greater than zero that has exactly two different factors, one and itself. For example, the number 3 is a prime number because its only factors are 1 and 3. In contrast, a composite number is a whole number greater than zero that has more than two different factors. The number 6 is a composite number because its factors are 1, 6, 2, and 3.

It’s important to note that the number 1 is neither prime nor composite. It is not prime because it does not have exactly two different factors. And it is not composite because it does not have more than two factors. 1 is a special number.

What You Do:

1.     Cut or fold the hundreds chart in half if you only want to focus on the prime numbers through 50.

2.    Take a moment to review what makes a prime number. Then let the game begin!

3.    To play, tell your child that you will be competing to cross out all the composite (non-prime) numbers, and circle all the prime numbers. Designate one colour marker for the prime numbers, and another to cross out composite numbers.

4.    Each player will take turns crossing out a composite number (1 point), circling a prime number (3 points), or “passing.” The game will get easier as more number are crossed and circled, but the bigger numbers may present more of a challenge to your child. You may need to take your child through the definition of prime numbers a few times as you look at different numbers.

5.    The player with the most points at the end wins!

After you have played the game, check your answers. The prime numbers through 50 revealed from this activity are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, and 47.