Mathematics & Numeracy Week One and Khan Academy Link
Hello All,
Below are a list of problems or a sort of menu that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week. These are not mandatory problems that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their math learning at home.
Big Idea: Number represents and describes quantity.
Curricular Content: number concepts to 100 and 1 000
Curricular Competencies: communicate mathematical thinking in many ways, represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms, connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests
Core Competencies focus: Communication
Families: The following are five problems/tasks to choose from for this week, based on the above curricular areas of focus.
| Choose a number: 89, 100, 500 or 1000 What different ways can you represent it? Consider using symbols, pictures, ten frames, arrays, tally marks, etc. |
| Choose a number: 50, 99, 125, 999 What different ways can you decompose it? Decompose means break into parts (ie. 50 can be decomposed into 25 and 25 or 10 and 20 and 20 and many other ways) How will you show your thinking? |
| Choose a number: 50, 85, 100 Find that quantity of items (rocks, seeds, books, blocks, toys). What different ways can you count the items? How can you show or record how you counted them? |
| Choose an amount: 50¢ or 100¢ or $100 or $1000 What different ways can you make this amount with bills and/or coins? What are three things that cost about this much? |
| Numeracy Task: Look around your home or neighbourhood. Where do you see numbers? Take photos or record the numbers you find on a piece of paper. What numbers are most common? How are numbers used? |
These questions can also be found on our class website at: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/. Please bookmark the class website and chekc in with it for daily updates.
Another optional online resource for math and other subjects is the Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy’s website aims to provide a personalized learning experience, mainly built on the videos which are hosted on YouTube. The website is meant to be used as a supplement to its videos, because it includes other features such as progress tracking, practice exercises,and teaching tools.The material can also be accessed through mobile applications.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Mr. Belliveau