Junior going places activities
The purpose of this resource is to provide suggestions to whānau about how they can facilitate maths conversations while out and about.
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 at home when out and about.
Junior going places activities
Number: Find a number and use it as a “launchpad” for counting backwards or forwards or in jumps of two or ten.
Patterns: One day, walk on the even number side of the street, and the next on the odd number side. Notice which numbers are on the two sides.
Time: Count the seconds while waiting for the light to change; notice anywhere there is a clock along the way.
Money: Notice all the signs that have dollars on them: for example, petrol stations, supermarkets, and car yards.
Shapes: Choose a shape and find objects in that shape along the way. You can choose two-dimensional shapes (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, etc.) or three-dimensional objects (boxes, balls, cones, and pyramids).
Statistics: Choose one colour of car to count on the way. On the way home or the next time, choose a different one. Keep going for several trips.
What colour seems to be the most common? The least common?
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