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Helping Your Child With Homework. 19 th February 2013. Money. Sorting coins is the first step Value is most important Swap coins Go to the shop Change – counting on approach For addition, subtraction and division put down the decimal place as you go.
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Helping Your Child With Homework 19th February 2013
Money • Sorting coins is the first step • Value is most important • Swap coins • Go to the shop • Change – counting on approach • For addition, subtraction and division put down the decimal place as you go. • For multiplication, the decimal point jumps into the answer.
Time • Use every opportunity to talk about time. • Days of the Week, Months, Seasons • Buy a watch • Analogue/Digital Clock • Use the TV guide, Timetables • Half an hour, Quarter of an hour • Am/pm • Express digital as analogue, vice versa • 24 hour clock
Match started at 11.50. It lasted 30 mins and there was a 5 min interval. What time did it end? hrs mins hrs mins 3 46 7 40 4 27 1 55 How long does a journey last? ( 09.20 – 12.05)
Problem Solving • What I need to find out? • What am I being asked? • RUDE • Estimating • Rounding • Simplify • Re-phrase • Does it make sense
First Class • Add or Subtract • A farmer had some sheep. He bought some more. How many has he now? • There was 15 balloons at the party. 4 burst. How many were left?
Second Class Problem • There were 23 birds on a wire. 14 more came along. Then 7 flew away. How many were left on the wire? • John has 25 sweets. Mary has 9 more than John. How many have they altogether?
Third Class Problem • A shopping centre has 86 shops. 48 of them are on the ground floor and the rest are on the first floor. How many are on the first floor? • David had 24 sweets. He shared them with his five friends. How many sweets did each person get?
Fourth Class Problem • Yesterday a bus had 15 passengers on board. 6 people got on the bus at the next stop and 2 got off. 12 got on at the second stop and 9 got off. What day of the week was it? • A farmer bought 500 cabbage plants. He planted 24 rows of cabbage plants with 16 cabbages in each row. How many plants had he left over?
Fifth Class problem • 321 pupils were organised into 11-a-side soccer teams. Were there many children left without a team?
Useful Websites • www.ncca.ie • www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Parents/Primary/1st_and_2nd_Classes/1st_and_2nd_Classes.html • www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com • www.savvybear.com • www.mathsisfun.com • www.studyladder.com • www.timemonsters.com • Woodlands Maths Zone • www.bbc.co.uk • www.primarygames.co.uk