Maths – The Banker’s Game – Place Value

Posted on April 3, 2017 by lisasporn

We are continuing our learning about place value of numbers as a part of our Maths programme.

Last week, and into this week, we’ve been playing the Banker’s Game – we started with bundling pop sticks in groups of 10 and have now started using MAB equipment to further our learning.

The Banker’s Game is one way to learn about the value of digits in a number depending of their position in the number.

We’ve been playing either by ourselves or with a partner. Each dice roll is counted out using ones, when the column totals 10 it is exchanged for a long (group of 10) and then when there is 10 longs they are exchanged for a flat (group of 100). There is no limit to how high the game can go – just keep rolling that dice!

Watch Lara playing the Banker’s Game – you’ll see her counting and adding numbers, adding the new dice roll to her total on the board, exchanging groups of 10 in each column and then counting her new total.

What’s your favourite part of the Banker’s Game?

Tell us what you know about place value.

Mass Investigations

Posted on August 9, 2015 by lisasporn

This term we have had a big focus on Measurement as a part of our Maths investigations. During last week we were measuring the mass of different objects. We estimated, measured and calculated the difference between our estimations and measurements. It was interesting to see how close our estimates were of household items.

We measured the mass of a carrot, sweet potato, a jar of vegemite, an orange, a coffee mug, an onion – just to name a few. We loved our investigations because they were hands-on and involved lots of Maths skills.

Maths Number Line

Posted on March 3, 2015 by lisasporn

We’ve been learning about place value of numbers as a part of our Maths activities.

Our activities have taught us that the value of a digit depends on its place, or position, in the number.

We’ve made number lines, placed numbers in order from highest to lowest and lowest to highest, played the Banker’s Game – all different ways to learn about the value of numbers.

Today each of us were given different amounts of MAB equipment – our task was to work out the value of each of our own MAB equipment and then place ourselves along a line in numerical order. We could work out the value of our OWN equipment but putting ourselves along a number line proved more challenging – we’re going to practise again tomorrow.

Here’s a few photos of our number line.

Learning About Time

Posted on August 13, 2013 by lisasporn

Today we began learning about many different parts of time. We will be investigating:

learning times on analogue and digital clocks, eg o’clock, 1/2 past, 1/4 past/to and minute intervals
elapsed periods of time
adding time on
recognising times that are important to us.

We are going to be using the following sites to support our learning.

An interactive clock.