Week 2

Math Activity #2: Number Sense Review

FRENCH NUMBERS 0-100 – REFERENCE LIST

1. Listen to the story “En Safari” through Pearson’s Mathology Series: https://schmedia.pearsoncanada.ca/mlb/index.html?code=11NI-FR

Complete the activity that comes up. “How many tiles?” Create a drawing using as many different coloured tiles as you wish. Tell me how many tiles of each colour you used and how many in total. Don’t forget to save your image and send it to me!

2. Complete the “Greater Than/Less Than” worksheet below and send it to me. If you are unable to print the worksheet, you can write the questions (or create your own) on a piece of paper.

= means equal. Use this symbol when the numbers are the same. Ex 36 = 36

> or < are used to indicate which number is bigger. Think of this symbol as a hungry alligator who wants to eat the bigger number. This way the triangle is always open towards the bigger number and pointing towards the smaller ex 36 > 14 or 2 < 9

Practice saying the equations out loud using vocabulary in French:

• Plus que/more than
• Moins que/less than
• Égal à/equal to

Ex. 12 est plus petit que 20 

greater-than-less-than-equal-to-1

3. Play the card game “War”: The deck is divided evenly among players. Players draw the top card from their pile at the same time. Players must say the numbers in French. The biggest number wins and takes both cards for their “winnings” pile. When both players run out of cards, the player with the most cards in their “winnings” pile wins! 

4. Practice grouping 10’s and 1’s in this place value game: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

5. Teach someone in your family how to play the “Digit Game”. We will review how to play this game during our conferences this week. Here are the instructions:

One person picks a number, writes it down and hides it. The second person has to guess the number. Write down each guess in the left column. In the second column you will write how many numerals (out of the two) are guessed correctly and in the third column you write how many of those numbers are in the correct digit (10’s and 1’s place). The game continues until the second person guesses correctly. Once students have a good understanding of how this game works they are able to use strategy to guess the correct number. Here is an example of how the game could look.

*numbers must be double digit (between 10 and 98) with no repetition (ex 99)

Secret number: 24

*Bonus Activity: Go for a walk. Look at the house numbers in your neighbourhood: what do you notice?