The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
HOW CAN YOU HELP BUILD YOUR CHILD ’ S NUMERACY?
Parents and carers play a significant role in their child ’ s learning by setting expectations, nurturing curiosity, and encouraging a love of learning.
You can help build your child ’ s numeracy through doing the following:
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be positive about their numeracy experiences and praise effort and perseverance
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let your child know that everyone can be successful
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involve your child in numeracy - related activities
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describe what you are doing in situations that involve numeracy
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explain why you make certain numeracy choices
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learn alongside your child and encourage a sharing of numeracy ideas and thoughts
Helping children to become numerate does not need a high level of mathematics. It means:
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encouraging children to try, then keep trying
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encouraging children to think (reason)
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modelling numeracy with children (including interpreting data, charts and diagrams)
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talking aloud when solving problems (every day or mathematical)
• getting children to check their answers (Does this answer make sense?)
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encouraging children to help with
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cooking (especially measuring out ingredients)
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paying bills
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scheduling events in the day
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reading maps and giving directions
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shopping
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measuring
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do not say “ Maths is hard ”
To focus on your child ’ s problem - solving approaches and their reasoning:
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Ask questions and give instructions like:
“ What do you already know about this problem/question? ”
“ How might you work it out? ”
“ Explain why you think that is the answer? ”
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Do not focus only on the correct response, the process/approach is important
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Allow your child to experience some confusion. It is an essential aspect of the learning process.
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