Measuring the weather
The purpose of this resource is to provide suggestions to whānau about how they can facilitate maths conversations by measuring the weather.
About this resource
This section provides 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.
This page provides suggestions as to how mathematics conversations can be facilitated by measuring the weather.
Measuring the weather
It is also possible to get a thermometer from garden shops or discount stores that will stick to the window so that children can practice reading a scale and measuring the temperature each day. A simple weather station can be set up in your garden with a thermometer, a measuring cup or bottle as a rain gauge, and a pinwheel to show wind.
Encourage them to compare what their weather station is saying to the report on the news or in the newspaper.
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