Parents Count Too
Effective partnerships in numeracy education develop from good communication. A range of pamphlets has been developed outlining activities that can be used at home to support mathematics learning at school. These pamphlets on "Helping your child with..." are available in files that can be downloaded in 22 community languages. As well as English, the languages available are Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Tongan, Turkish and Vietnamese.
About the pamphlets
This series of pamphlets provides practical ideas to support children's mathematical thinking. The pamphlets provide guidance for lower primary students. While the ideas presented in the pamphlets are in-line with the curriculum being taught in primary schools, they are also based on around everyday events such as cooking, gardening or reading with your child or even on family outings, such as on a visit to the beach.
Brief descriptions of how children learn mathematical ideas have been included in each pamphlet. Knowing how mathematical knowledge develops can help in recognising situations where children's thinking could be encouraged.
Talking with your children and listening to their ideas can help them in becoming confident and enthusiastic users of mathematics.
Helping your child with counting
Helping your child with counting describes how children learn to count and use numbers.
Helping your child with arithmetic
Helping your child with arithmetic-addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, outlines how children use numbers and counting to share equally (divide), to group equally (multiply) and to add and subtract.
Helping your child with shapes and objects
Helping your child with shapes and objects describes how children learn about spatial ideas.
Helping your child with measuring length and area
Helping your child with measuring length and area describes how children learn about measurement through initially exploring and comparing objects before using formal measurements (such as centimetres and square metres) to compare length and area.
Helping your child with measuring volume and mass
Helping your child with measuring volume and mass describes how children learn about measurement through initially exploring and comparing objects before using formal measurements such as kilograms and grams.
Helping your child with measuring temperature and time
Helping your child with measuring temperature and time outlines the role language plays in learning about time and how children learn about temperature by comparing the hotness or coldness of two or more things.
More mathematical activities to do at home
A collection of simple mathematical activities and games to enhance childrens' numeracy skills.
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