Welcome forward

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Welcome forwardgtgt

• Ripple Infants
• Maths Micro-site

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ltltback Home Page

• Welcome to the Ripple Infants Mathematics
  Micro-site.
• Follow the links to find a range of ideas and
  suggestions to support your childs learning.

• Introduction
• Suggested activities
• Year group work
• Maths Events
• Other Maths Websites

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ltltback Introduction

• Here is some good news for parents and carers
  who want to support their childs learning in
  mathematics. If you are stuck for ideas or not
  sure how to explain strategies, then this website
  will prove to be helpful.
• I have listed a number of useful activities that
  can be carried out at home and are not too time
  consuming. I hope you find them useful. If you
  have any other ideas, please do not hesitate and
  e-mail them to me.
• Thank you for taking time to look at this
  website and l hope you find it useful.
• Miss Magar
• Maths Co-ordinator.

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ltltback Suggested Activities

• Counting
• Shopping
• Sequencing
• Measurements
• Time
• Sorting and Matching
• Problem Solving
• Numbers Around Us (Activities)

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ltltback Counting

• Count a collection of objects, buttons, shells,
  pasta shells. (Or, as an extension estimate
  first and then count to check!).
• Cars on a journey, e.g. How many blue cars can
  you see?
• Count how many step to bed.
• Stepping stones in the garden.
• Look at house numbers, emphasising odd and even
  numbers.
• How many pages in a story.
• Count in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
• (REMEMBER NUMBERS ARE ALL AROUND US!!!)

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ltltback Shopping

• Look at prices.
• Decide on which coins to pay for items.
• Weigh fruit and vegetables in the supermarket.
• Encourage children to count pocket money.
• Read labels on bottles, packets, in order to
  discuss capacity and weight.
• Calculate change.
• Write and sort out shopping lists.
• Rubbing of different coins and talk about size
  and colour of coins.
• Calculating the cost of the family going to the
  cinema, swimming baths etc

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ltltback Sequencing

• Sequence main events of the day, e.g. breakfast,
  lunch and dinner.
• What comes next games.
• Set of instructions, for example a recipe.
• Days of the week, months of the year.
• Number patterns.

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ltltback Measurements

• Calculate heights of family members. Who is the
  tallest? Who is the shortest?
• Measure how many grams of ingredients you will
  need to bake a cake?
• Playing with plastic jugs and containers in the
  bath. Are they full, half full or empty?
• Calculate areas, e.g. How many squares on the
  patio, tiles in the shower.
• Comparing shoe size within the family.
• Weighing different toys to find the heaviest,
  lightest, or two the same.
• Reading labels to see how many grams or
  kilograms.
• Looking at bottles or cans to identify and
  recognise millilitres and litres.

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ltltback Time

• Looking at the clock and identify the numbers.
• Telling the time.
• Calculating how long a journey will take. Look
  at bus/train/airline timetables.
• Looking at a calendar-days, weeks, months
• Planning out birthdays and discussing how many
  weeks
• Looking at the time on the post box.
• Setting the radio alarm.
• Look at different types of clocks.
• Using clocks-analogue and digital.

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ltltback Sorting Matching

• Setting the table - 1 to 1 correspondence and
  sorting cutlery.
• Sorting buttons, beads, colours of pegs, sweets,
  biscuits, seeds for the garden and so on..
• Sorting clothes for washing- size and colour.
• Matching pairs of socks, gloves, shoes..
• Sorting groceries.

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ltltback Problem Solving

• Look out for regular updates.

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ltltback Numbers Around Us

• Using car number plates - add the digits to find
  biggest, smallest and totals.
• Sharing out sweets, in groups of 2,3,4,5,6 to
  help with times tables.
• Looking for numbers- in shops, on buses, doors,
  cars
• Using sandwiches to show fractions ½ , ¼
• Pressing the digits on the telephone to make a
  call with an adult.

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ltltback Top Ten Maths Websites

• Here are some of the most popular maths websites
  to support your childs learning
• www.underfives.co.uk
• www.funbrain.com
• www.funwithspot.com
• www.aaamath.com (Look at basic additions and
  addition facts).
• www.bbc.co.uk
• www.thinks.com
• www.topmaths.com
• www.sparkisland.com
• www.eduplace.com
• www.mathsphere.co.uk
• www.childrensmoneyworld.com
• Please look out for regular updates.