ORIGO At Home provides guidance and instruction to continue maths learning at home. ORIGO’s team of educators have handpicked these resources and activities to help provide engaging mathematical thinking and practice for school students in Years F to 6.
Each week focuses on one topic, with each day providing a different way of learning and retaining knowledge, from hands-on activities to watching a video.
Here’s a recap of the topics from Week 1:
- Foundation: Numbers 1-10
- Year 1: Two-digit numbers
- Year 2: Three-digit numbers
- Year 3: Multiplication with the tens and fives facts
- Year 4: Multiplication with the twos, fours, and eights facts
- Year 5: Decimal Fractions- Representing, Comparing and Ordering
- Year 6: Decimal Fractions- Operations (addition up to hundredths focusing on money)
In Week 2, we worked to reinforce and extend this knowledge through similar activities designed to engage students at each year level. Below are some highlights from At Home Week 2 and the topics that each year level focused on:
Foundation: Numbers 1-10 (Relative position)
As part of Monday’s Read and Discuss content, students read Hip Hop Hippos: A book about Numbers and Relative Position and discussed what the story was about.
Year 1: Addition Strategies (Count on)
On Tuesday, our Hands-on Maths day, Year 1 students drew a picture of a wallet or purse and practiced the count-on strategy by adding $1 coins to their drawing. Students then completed pages from the Year 1 Student Journal to reinforce the count-on strategy for addition.
Year 2: Addition within 100
On Wednesday, our Problem-solving day, Year 2 students solved a problem with more than one solution. Working to solve this word problem helped students think outside the box and create unique ways of solving problems.
Year 3: Addition within 1000
Thursday’s Game Day saw Year 3 students play the online game Addition Fun which reinforces place-value strategies to add three-digit numbers.
Year 4: Addition with larger numbers
On Friday’s Practice day, Year 4 students practiced adding two- and three-digit numbers with regrouping by completing a puzzle.
Year 5: Using a special strategy to multiply two-digit numbers
On Monday’s Watch and Talk day, Year 5 students learned the double-and-halve strategy for multiplication with Gemma Burnett from Gem Stones- Mathematics. This strategy helped them to solve two-digit multiplication problems faster than using a calculator!
Year 6: Number patterns
Tuesday’s Hands-on Maths day saw Year 6 students investigate square numbers. They arranged blocks to represent odd numbers, as shown below. Students also investigated patterns and made a prediction of the total number of small squares they would see in the fifth, sixth, and tenth pictures. They then completed pages from the Year 6 Student Journal to further explore square number patterns.
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