To Be Numerate

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To Be Numerate

• Devonport Primary School
• Parent Information Evening

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Outline

• Problem Solving Activities
• How is Mathematics taught now?The New Zealand
  Numeracy Framework
• Helpful and practical ideas to support your
  childs learning in mathematics.

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Time to Think!!!
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Number Strategies Subtraction

• There are 53 people on the bus.
• 29 people get off.
• How many people are now on the
• bus?

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Solution 53 29

• How did you work it out?
• What happened in your head?
• Share your different strategies with the people
  around you

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Make sense of these strategies
I use place value 53 20 33. Minus another
9. Split the 9 into 3 and 6. 33- 3 30 6 24
I use tidy numbers 53 30 23 plus 1 24
53 29
I think of 53 -29 3 9 I cant do so I borrow
a ten. 13 9 4. 4 tens 2 tens 2. Its 24
20
3
1
53
29
30
50
I use balancing. 53 29 54 30
24
1
1
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Number Strategies Multiplication

• There are 4 packets of biscuits with
• 24 cookies in each pack.
• How many cookies are there
• altogether?

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Solution 4 x 24

• How did you work it out?
• What happened in your head?
• Share your different strategies with the people
  around you.
• How else could this problem be solved?

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Make sense of these Strategies.
I used place value 4 x 20 80. And 4 x 4
16. 80 16 96
I use tidy numbers I know 4 x 25
100. 100-(1x4) 96.
I think of 24 X4 4 x 4 16. Put down the 6
and carry the 1. 4 x 2 80 another ten
90 906 96
4 x 24
I know 24 24 48. 48 48 96
I used doubling and halving. Double 4 8, half
24 12. 8 x 12 96
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Numeracy Project Goal

• to be numerate is to have the ability and
  inclination to use mathematics effectively at
  home, at work and in the community
• Published in Curriculum Update 45

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Goals cont.

• developing multiple flexible thinking strategies
• mental and oral before written standard vertical
  forms
• Make decisions about the smartest strategy to use
  on any given problem.
• Challenge children to achieve and develop a
  positive attitude towards learning mathematics.

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Why?

• International results of TIMMS test in the 1990s
  were concerning.
• Research had shown that children developed
  numeracy understandings through stages (not
  necessarily age-related).

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Developmental Stage Progression

• The New Zealand Number Framework

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Numeracy Stages

• Emergent
• One to One Counting
• Count from one on Materials
• Count from one by Imaging
• Advanced Counting
• Early Additive Part-Whole
• Advanced Additive Part-Whole
• Advanced Multiplicative
• Advanced Proportional

Counting Strategies
Non Counting Strategies
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The NZ Numeracy Framework

• Each Numeracy Stage highlights key knowledge and
  strategy that a child should know.
• Strong knowledge is essential for students to
  broaden their strategies across a full range of
  numbers.

Creates new knowledge through use
Provides the foundation for strategies
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Knowledge and Strategy

• Knowledge Number Identification, Number
  sequence and order, Grouping and place value,
  basic facts
• Strategy Addition and Subtraction,
  Multiplication and Division, Fraction and
  Proportions

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How is maths taught differently now?
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Assessing what children know.

• Assess - where each child is at through oral
  interviewing and questioning
• Group according to a Childs strategy stage using
  the New Zealand Number Framework

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How can parents help?

• Developing a childs knowledge is a key to their
  success and development in mathematics.

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Knowledge Building

• Counting(cars, shells on beach, pegs, run around
  the house, count backwards, start from different
  numbers etc.)
• Numbers before and after(Letter boxes, say a
  number, write a number down, keyboard numbers,
  using dice etc.)
• Identifying numbers( Number plates, speed signs,
  how many km to go, cooking etc.)
• Ordering numbers(Mailbox, money, TV
  channels,ages etc.)

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Knowledge Building

• Knowing groups to ten(Using ten frames, using
  fingers, quinary sticks)
• Basic addition facts to ten(Buttons, ten frames,
  quinary sticks, fingers)
• Recalling Doubles(ten frames, fingers, quinary
  sticks)

Ten frames
Quinary Sticks
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The Reality?

• To become a Part-Whole thinker, children need
• automatic recall of
• Facts to Ten
• Doubles Facts
• Ten and .10 6 16
• To Become a Multiplicative thinker children need
• to be able to recall the x tables

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Handouts Website -links to www.nzmaths.co.nz
and parent maths information
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Where to now?

• Wander around the stations that the teachers have
  set up to show you some examples of how numeracy
  is taught.
• Try some activities and games.
• Have fun!
• Ask questions.