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A story telling session with follow up activities for kindergarten age group.
This is a story about a caterpillar who was so hungry that he ate through many fruits and other food in one week. Listen to the story and join in the follow-up activities.
Hawn għandek issib varjetà ta’ attivitajiet, storja u għanjiet li jduru mat-tema tax-xemx. Bil-għajnuna tagħkom it-tfal ikollhom iċ-ċans li jipprattikaw b’kunfidenza il-lingwa mitħaddta waqt li jgawdu dawn l-opportunitajiet ta’ tagħlim maħsuba madwar it-tema.
While engaging in this task junior mathematicians are provided with an opportunity to apply basic concepts of numbers and mathematical operations to reinforce students’ skills and motivate them to progress in mathematical calculations. This task allows students to work at different levels and depths.
This tasks provides a creative opportunity for students, of all ages, to practice halving. This tasks is designed to allow students to work at different levels.
This task provides an opportunity for mathematicians, of all ages, to notice and wonder about any pattern/s and amount of coloured bottle caps in the picture. It also encourages mathematicians to create their own shapes/patterns using bottle caps.
This task provides an opportunity for mathematicians of all ages to engage in a low floor, high ceiling task focusing on shapes. There is no one single starting point… learners can start exploring the task from whichever point they wish… and there is no limit… they can delve deeper too.
During this task mathematicians of all ages get the opportunity to solve the given mathematical puzzle; Who is sitting where? Students get the opportunity to practise and distinguish between left and right. This investigation also has elements of logic and reasoning while exploring different possible outcomes. Students are encouraged to find one solution or more than one according to their level.
During this task the students will have the opportunity to fill different grids with any number pattern according to their maths level and have fun moving Twirly around the grid. It will help students gain better understanding of numbers and number patterns and how they work together.
During this activity students will have the opportunity to practise positions on a grid. In addition, this activity is a sort of puzzle that doesn’t just give students an understanding of positions, but also helps them develop their problem solving skills.
During this activity students practise and learn to read and create a pictograph to organise and share the data collected. Pictographs are a simple way to represent statistical data.
Did-darba se nduru mat-tema tal-mużika. Hawn għandkom issibu għaxar opportunitajiet varji, maħsuba biex fi ġranet differenti tqattgħu siegħa żmien fit-tagħlim madwar it-tema. Bl-opportunitajiet ta’ tagħlim li ssibu fis-sezzjoni tar-riżorsi it-tfal se jkunu jistgħu jiskopru x’ toffri l-mużika, kif ukoll kif taffettwana.
This task provides an opportunity for mathematicians of all ages to explore, write about and talk about patterns.
This task provides mathematicians of all ages to think, observe, consolidate, connect and share. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Sudoku is a very popular puzzle game with numbers. Sudoku puzzles are simple tasks to develop students’ critical thinking skills. It helps with gaining confidence in their abilities to face and complete challenging tasks, which can carry over into many aspects of problem solving tasks.
The brilliance of Maths Eyes tasks began in Ireland in a very tiny community. This particular task targets just that, developing Maths eyes. Through a real life situations, students are encouraged to identify the importance of their numeracy knowledge and skills.
It also offers opportunities to develop self-confidence and competence and support positive attitudes to mathematics.
During this task students will be able to make a bar graph to represent data given. In addition students are encouraged to compare and contrast two options and come up with a rational answer using the same data.
Tasks similar to this one help in making maths more enjoyable and looking more like a game. This tasks helps develop strategic thinking and allow children to work at their own level.
During this task students will have the opportunity to explore and learn through play about the three-dimensional properties of a cube. This task also takes visualising as its focus which has an important role to play in problem solving. The task also gives an opportunity to work with the net of a cube in different ways.
During this task students are practising addition and much more. Similar tasks support students in becoming successful, persistent problem solvers by grasping a number of mathematical competencies and drawing on multiple sources of mathematical knowledge.
Dizzy Dots is a simple enjoyable maths task that helps develop strategic thinking. This task
allows students to work at their own level and provides an opportunity for mathematicians of all ages to think, observe, consolidate, connect and share.
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
This task invites mathematicians of all ages to observe and use their maths eyes and minds to make connections. It seems to be mostly about squares, but there is much more to observe,
This can be a head-ache! Four different shapes are arranged in 2 different ways to make up 2 similar triangles…..almost. What do you notice? What is the same and what is different in the two shapes? Can you find another way how the arrange these shapes to solve the mystery?
This post is intended to offer learning opportunities around the piano. The child is invited to explore and discover interesting information around this topic of interest while developing their observation and listening skills. The child will become confident to look at the piano keys with interest and with some background knowledge.
During this task students are challenged to discover the relationship among a set of numbers and the way they are positioned. This engages students in a problem-solving situation in which they practise aspects of: observation, conversation, questioning, testing their ideas and modifying their initial ideas Finally wondering what if…… by creating their own patterns and towers.
Which is the odd one out? Using our Maths Eyes this task provides space for thought and reasoning. What’s more fun is that there is no right answer considering there are different correct ways of choosing the one that doesn’t belong. Have fun!
Matchstick puzzles are reordering brainteasers where a number of matchsticks or any other sticks are organised as squares, rectangles, triangles or other shapes representing a picture. The challenge to resolve is usually to move a number of matchsticks to make a different picture or reorganise the shape in a different way. However some of the puzzles require creativeness ad inventiveness and are not just about making geometric shapes.
The world in which we live is full of constructions created with recognised 3-d shapes. The skill to construct a 3D shape both as a manipulative and in your mind and reason with them is essential for increasing spatial awareness. During this activity students will be building cubes and then challenged with a brainteaser.
The moment we start asking students to notice and wonder in Mathematics by looking at diagrams and numbers, we are pivoting learning around the students ideas and their prior knowledge. Noticing (observing) and wondering (asking questions) are very intense practices that develop curiosity, perseverance and reasoning among other useful skills.
Which is the odd one out? Using our Maths Eyes, this task provides space for thought and reasoning. What’s more fun is that there is no one right answer considering there are different correct ways of choosing the one that doesn’t belong. Have fun!
What is the same and what is different? Using our Maths Eyes, this task provides an opportunity for thought and reasoning. What’s more fun is that there is no one right answer considering there are different correct ways of choosing the one that doesn’t belong. Have fun!
The problem this task puts forward is not ‘What is the answer?’ but ‘What is the question?’. This task will encourage students to take a different role and think about questions rather than answers. This task will definitely reinforce learning and encourage students to think and reflect about their own knowledge of different concepts. The possibilities are endless…enjoy!
This task can be considered a number puzzle as there are a specific set of rules and students have to figure out the pattern being followed and then answer accordingly. Number puzzles are innovative and motivating tasks which also helps you improve your logical thinking and above all these are fun to crack !!!
Try this one out if you really like exercising your brain and figuring things out! Apart from practising the concept of odd and even numbers, this will help develop mathematical thinking and problem solving.
The brilliance of Maths Eyes tasks began in Ireland in a very tiny community. This particular task targets just that, developing Maths eyes. Through this grid 10 x 10 students are encouraged to identify numeracy knowledge and delve deeper by asking more questions and finding answers. It also offers opportunities to develop self-confidence and competence and support positive attitudes to mathematics.
A number line is a very good resource when teaching about numbers in a primary school classroom, unfortunately it not not always used to its full potential . A number line will help us explore and discover the relationship between numbers and deepen out understanding mathematically. This task is aimed to build confidence, fluency, and facility with numbers. Working effectively with a number line model, students can develop powerful intuitive strategies in the number system.
Growing or increasing patterns are figures and diagrams in which the main feature is that each step you see a constant growth. It is a very important mathematical skill to recognise and create a pattern as it helps students to make predictions based on observations. Understanding sequences and patterns help prepare students for learning complex number concepts and mathematical operations. Patterns allow us to see relationships in numbers and develop generalisations.
This low floor high ceiling task invites mathematicians of all ages to explore shapes , mostly squares.
This is a low floor, high ceiling tasks which offers a good challenge to educators of all ages.
This task engages mathematicians of all ages in a Low Floor High Ceiling Task focusing on Capacity.
This task engages mathematicians of all ages in a low floor, high ceilng task and presents Maths and Art combined.