1 Hougang Primary School Mathematics Workshop (P2) Make Maths Fun @ Home Whole Numbers Jumping Jack Snap Game (numeral Cluedo Numerals! cards 0 to 20) Tell your child you are thinking Draw on butcher paper numbers from one to twenty in Get two stacks of numeral of a 2-digit number, example 54. Tell your child he/she can sequence. cards from zero to twenty. Say a number and get your Shuffle them and put them face only ask questions which you can only give a ‘Yes/No’ reply. child to jump onto that number. down. You and your child will Next say ‘plus 3’. Your child is turn over the top most card. For example, he/she can ask, “Is the number less than 40?”, supposed to calculate mentally The player who has the greater ‘Is the number between 50 and and do a jump to the answer. number gets to keep the card. Next say ‘minus 2’ and your 60?”, “Does the number have a If both numbers are the same, digit 4?”. You and y our child the player who shouts ‘Snap’ child has to jump backwards to may reverse the role to play the answer on a step. Do this first will get to keep the card. till your child gets to 20. The player who collects more the game. cards wins. Memory Game (numeral Magic Square of 15 (magic Break the Code cards 0 to 20) (word square) cards 0 to 20) Get your child to break the Give your child a 3 by 3 grid code by giving the following clues: Prepare a stack of numeral with some numbers written in it, for example, 1, 6 and 5. Get cards and word cards (0-20) and place them on the floor your child to fill in the rest of The first number is 4 more than the numbers from 1 to 9 in the with the numbers and words the second number. facing down. Get your child to missing boxes. He has to make The last number is the sum of sure that the sum of all rows, turn over 2 cards. If the cards the first and second numbers. match, he will get to keep the columns and diagonal is 15. The second number is 2. cards. If not, he will turn back What is the code? the cards and it is now your turn to do likewise. Repeat the process till all the cards are taken off from the floor. The player with the most cards wins. Counting is Fun! I Spy Numbers Around Me Calendar Pattern Use objects around your house While outside, encourage your Show a month from a calendar. like coins, toys, spoons and child to be aware of the Get your child to name a forks etc, to practise counting. numbers within the pattern he/she can see from If the quantity is big, get your surrounding area by playing the dates of the calendar child to talk about the counting this simple activity. Parent says month. Alternatively, get out, “I spy the number 367. strategies he/she uses in him/her to circle all the even Can you find it?” Get your child counting. numbers using one colour and to point the number and say it all the odd numbers using out loud, “Three hundred and another colour to observe a sixty-seven. The number is pattern. there on that car!” You can invite your child to ‘spy’ numbers on buses, on road signs, on advertisement boards and everywhere possible.
2 Hougang Primary School Mathematics Workshop (P2) Make Maths Fun @ Home Multiplication/ Division/Fraction Beannie Shares! Skip Count We Go! 7-UP Tell your child you are learning Pick a handful of beans and You and your child will take put them on a table. Then multiplication tables with turns to say a number, starting him/her. Say you start with count the number of beans from 1. When it is a multiple of 7, either of you will say ‘7 - UP’. without moving them. Next, tell multiplication table of 3. So, you start with ‘1’, your child will your child that the winner is the You will start from 1 again if say ‘2’. When it is your turn, one who is able to put the you forget to say that. you will say ‘skip’ instead of ‘3’. beans into equal groups in the Try to set a time limit for both fastest possible time. Try with Then your child will continue of you to complete the game with ‘4, you ‘5’ and then your different number of beans. In from number 1 to 84. child will say ‘skip’ instead of 6. situations where they cannot Each time either one of you be put into equal groups, get your child to explain. For reaches multiples of 3, say ‘skip’ instead of the answer. example, 19 cannot be put into groups of 2, there will be one Try it out with other multiplication tables. extra leftover. Egg Carton Egg Carton Division House of (3) Tables Multiplication Give your child a simple Draw a house on a sheet of Give your child a simple division problem like 8 ÷ 4. construction paper. Include a Give them 8 Cheerios and door and 13 windows. Label problem like 3 x 4. Explain to them that this is asking for 3 explain that they need to be each window 0 to 12. Write on put into four of the slots. They the door the multiplication table groups of 4 items. Have your child put 4 Cheerios into 3 of can do this easily by putting eg, three. Cut each window one Cheerio at a time into each along any three sides. Next the egg carton slots. Have them count the total number of slot until they are used up. paste the house onto another Now ask them how many construction paper. Open each Cheerios in all of the slots. Cheerios are in one of the window and write the answer slots. Explain that this is the for each multiplication table of answer to the problem. 3. For eg, the Window 5 will have the answer 15. Use it to test your child‘s multiplica tion facts. Fraction Fruit Salad Math Bingo Fraction Food Get your child to cut up Create a 5 by 5 grid of different Use Fraction terms as you different kinds of fruits into multiplication or division cut up food like pies, pizza, halves, quarters, eights etc. equations such as 4x2, 3x5, cake. Get your child to say the 10x8 etc Start with: This is a whole __. Let’s divide or share it into _ fraction as he savours the different fractioned fruits. Say out different numbers pieces the same size. (answers to the Each piece is the same size Fraction chocolate bar multiplication/division and part of the whole ___. equations) to get your child to Use the terms, whole, part of make a row and win the a whole, part of a set, equal, Get a bar of chocolate. BINGO game. not equal, the same as, not Encourage your child to divide the same as, half, halves, the chocolate into ½ , ¼ etc. third, thirds, fourth, fourths, a quarter as you play with the children.
3 Hougang Primary School Mathematics Workshop (P2) Make Maths Fun @ Home Money / Geometry Shopping is Fun! Money, Money, Money My Little Shop Get your child to help you in Take some coins from your You can get your child to set grocery shopping the next time coin box. Get your child to form up a toy shop to sell his toys to you visit a supermarket. Pass the least/most amount he/she his family members/friends. him/her your grocery list. Get can make with 5 coins. You can help him to determine him/her to estimate the bill Alternatively, get him/her to the cost of the items. Each before paying for the groceries. show the different ways to form friend or family member will be Get him/her every opportunity $1 with the coins given. given $20 to spend. to sharpen his/her estimation skills! Cut Me Out! Shapes in Our House and Blind But I See! Everywhere! Demonstrate to your child how Blindfold your child. Tell your to do a symmetrical cut-out. An To get your child to recognise child you have a picture in example is shown below. Get shapes (e.g. rectangle, square, mind for him/her to draw. them to tell you where the lines triangle and circle), invite your Describe the picture in details using words such as ‘There is of symmetry are. child to identify objects within the house that has the shape a circle. Inside the circle, there that he/she learns in school. are two triangles that look like Encourage your child to outline eyes. There is a square just the shape with his/her finger below the circle. It is joined to and talk about the shape on the circle. Inside the square, the object. Possible questions there is a small rectangle. On that you may ask; “What shape the left side of square there is a circle drawn next to it.” Once is it? Are there other shapes that you can find from this the drawing is done, remove your child’s blindfold, show object and can you show them to me?” You can extend this him/her your actual drawing. activity by inviting your child to You and your child may group the objects that have reverse the role to play this been identified according to the game and have a good laugh. shapes. While outdoors, provide the opportunity to get your child to recognise the shapes within his/her surrounding. Angles, Angles, Tracing Fun I am a Great Saver! Everywhere! Give your child 3-D objects Show your child a newspaper Ask your child to point out such as chocolate boxes, tins, article on different sale items. gift boxes and containers. Lay You can get them to calculate objects in the house that have angles greater than 90º, less each object with the flat the original price of the items surface on paper. Trace out or the amount saved. than 90º or exactly 90º the shape and get him/her to name and describe the shape.
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