Maths home learning: Online Challenges and Games

Hi everyone,

Many of the children have signed up for the Numerical Acumen 2015 challenge. This is an online program and children are able to log in and play at home as well as during Learning Agreement.

The login and password are both your child's first and last name, no spaces, no capitals. If that doesn't work, a couple of children's username is their first name and password is their last name.

e.g.
username: simonekentley
password: simonekentley

For the children who have signed up and for who the program suits, the challenge provides an opportunity for mental addition practise with incrementally challenging problems. This complements the teaching and learning of addition mental strategies, some of which were taught last year and will continue to be covered this year.

Mental addition strategies that feature in Numerical Acumen:

• Doubles
• Near Doubles
• Adding Near Tens
• Hop to Ten (missing part problems)

It is not expected that all children will engage with the challenge for two main reasons:

1. Some children may not respond well to timed mathematics practise 
2. Some children may not have YET consolidated the mental addition skills needed to complete the problems efficiently. 

ANOTHER OPTION: 

For those children who have not signed up or for whom Numerical Acumen is not a suitable program, here is the link to 3 engaging games that will allow the development of addition and takeaway strategies in a different game format via TES number. These games provide incrementally challenging problems that the children can work through (sections are revise, learn, extend).

• FRUIT MUNCHER
• PEARL PINCHER
• WORM HUNTER

Folder 1
http://www.tesnumber.com/yau195/f1

For more challenging problems:

Folder 2 (same games, slightly harder level)
http://www.tesnumber.com/yau195/f2