Keeping score – Learning at home
The purpose of this resource is to provide suggestions to whānau about how they can support mathematics by spending time doing some sport and recreational activities, like mini-golf.
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 can be practiced by participating in some sporting and recreational activities.
Keeping score
Some sporting and recreational activities provide lots of opportunities for some maths practice. Games like Mini-Putt or bowling have score cards that need to be kept and you can ask your child to add and subtract and help keep score. Praise your child when they do a good job keeping score as well as when they make a good shot.
- Hey that’s 3 more points! How many now? Great job adding that so quickly.
- I noticed you paired all the 2s with 3s and then counted in 5s. Clever idea.
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