This week our focus on addition and subtraction activities has grown from hands on and concrete materials to fast paced simple addition and subtraction on the ipads.
We have loved playing board games and card games to increase our understanding of addition and subtraction strategies learnt in class. Here are some pictures of the children loving our hands on, concrete learning!
We are now taking our learning from concrete to abstract by using our subscription to Mathletics within the class. We have loved playing Mathletics live on the I Pads which allows the children to increase their accuracy and build up their understanding in a fun and motivating way.
I have turned off their assigned tasks for the next two weeks to allow them to access this wonderful resource and have some fun while learning about Maths.
Here is some more information about Mathletics Live.
If you have misplaced your child's log in, please email me and I can let you know, otherwise they should be stuck to the inside of your child's reading file :)
Thank you
Miss Prowse
Surely maths shouldn’t be this much fun?
In an addition to the huge bank of core curriculum content, adaptive practice activities, eBooks and interactive tutorials; the live gaming area of Mathletics is so much more than a fun diversion. It’s a fast-paced and exciting way to improve mathematical fluency.
Students are matched with others around the world in LIVE real-time 60-second races, great for maths fluency!
Racing against each other, students answer as many maths questions as they can.
Students can be matched randomly or issue a challenge to their classmates.
Speed and accuracy are the key… three incorrect answers and you’re out of the game!
