Numeracy Staff Meeting

Place Value Staff Meeting Week 5

What we are covering•Explanation on entering data into

the Basic Facts spreadsheet for Year 3 - 8

•Gloss Testing - To Lisa/Michelle for end of Week 6

•Games for teaching and consolidating place value knowledge and basic facts

Number Hangman•I am learning to identify ones,

tens, hundreds, and thousands

•Game for: CA (Stage 3), AC (Stage 4) Early Additive (Stage 5), Advanced Additive (Stage 6), Advanced Multiplicative (Stage 7)

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

•I am learning to apply my basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts

•Game for - EA (Stage 5), AA (Stage 6), AM (Stage 7)

Math Tiggy

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Snakes and Ladders

•I am learning to apply my basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts

•Game for - EA (Stage 5), AA (Stage 6), AM (Stage 7)

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Swot a Fact •I am learning to apply my basic

addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts

•Game for - EA (Stage 5), AA (Stage 6), AM (Stage 7)

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Teaching Basic Facts •Find out what basic facts the

children know and don’t know

•There is no point teaching them the basic facts they know. 60% of teaching is on knowledge that they already have.

•An example of how I do this......

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Arrays •Arrays allow children to image what

multiplication and division look like

•4 x 3 has the same answer but is different than 3 x 4

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Word Problems •Giving students word problems

gives a context for the equation

•I have 3 bird cages each with 2 birds in them What is the equation for this word problem? Draw the equation as an array

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Family of Facts •4 x 3 = 12

•3 x 4 = 12

•12/3 = 4

•12/4 = 3

•NB - don’t always ask for the answer Example ? x 3 = 12

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Number Fans•I am learning to identify whole

numbers and decimals, and to count forwards and backwards

•Game for: All stages

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

Explicitly Teaching Place Value

•How many tens, hundreds or tenths in numbers altogether

•Materials - play money

•It’s more than telling students to take number off

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching

•Using place value houses

•Expanded form

Explicitly Teaching Place Value

Learning Games for Place Value Teaching