At the moment, many of the classes are working on place value in Maths. Place value is an important topic because it leads into addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If your child is having difficulty with the topic or would like a bit more practice, here are some excellent sites with activities to try out. Most of these activities are more suitable for the senior classes.
1. Ordering numbers -putting numbers in order from smallest to biggest
2. Notation boards – How many thousands, tens and units in a number?
3. Place value game – Up to 100 thousand
4. Words as numbers – writing words as numbers – they say ‘ones’ instead of ‘units’ – e.g. five ‘ones’ instead five ‘units’
5. Make the biggest number – a very good game – a bit more challenging!
6. Making numbers with blocks – this is a really good game – you have options to just use units, to use tens and units or to use hundreds, tens and units.
7. Mental maths questions – This is an excellent site in general – these are similar questions to the ones you might find in your New Wave
8. Place value to thousands – matching words to numbers
9. Place value pirates – place value game – involves decimals to hundredths
10. Shark numbers – matching block values to numbers
And finally, looking for something to REALLY challenge yourself? Quia gives you two player options so you can play against a friend.
Try them out and let us know! Which is your favourite?
8:50 pm on September 18th, 2013
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11:05 pm on September 18th, 2013
That is a very useful list of resources that you have put together 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
9:53 am on September 19th, 2013
Game number 3 is deadly because it’s really good fun shooting the targets.
9:54 am on September 19th, 2013
My favourite game is the shark game because it is hard.
9:55 am on September 19th, 2013
My favourite game is shark numbers because it is funny.
9:55 am on September 19th, 2013
I like the place value game because you get to shoot the targets.
9:57 am on September 19th, 2013
I like the shark numbers because when you get one wrong, the shark takes a bite out of the board!
10:06 am on September 19th, 2013
The golf game is very funny.
10:08 am on September 19th, 2013
I think the best game is the 3rd one because you’re in a tank.
10:14 am on September 19th, 2013
The maths games are great.
10:23 am on September 19th, 2013
The games are brilliant. My favourite was the first one because there were different levels.
10:37 am on September 19th, 2013
French toast was gorgeous. I loved it.
11:48 am on September 20th, 2013
Those games are great Miss Sexton 🙂
11:49 am on September 20th, 2013
I love the game. Thanks for putting them up!