Length (P2)

Hey P2 pupils,

Revise your length with these website.

Length 1 (click on easy centimeters & then medium centimeters)

Length 2

Numbers (P1 & P2)

Hey pupils,

Here are some number games.

Number Bonds to 10

Number Bonds 10 with a twist

Make 15

Fishy Count

P2 pupils to try the 1st three games and see how fast you cancomplete the game. It will help you in your addition and subtraction.
P1 pupils do try all the games.

Had a good break?

Hi all,

Did you have a good break? I know that I did.
School will be reopening in about a week's time and it almost time for the pupils to revise their Semester 1's work. It would be good to look through the files and books that were returned as Semester 2's work will be an upwards spiral of Semester 1's topics. (which means concepts are more or less the same for some topics but numbers get bigger. In Term 3, it will be number to 40).
Do look through some of the earlier post for the games/activties. It will be a fun way to revise your work.

Graphs in action

We started on the graph topic for both the P1 and P2 pupils after the SA 1 paper on Maths was completed.

We did quite a few activties on the topic on graph and our lesson on m & m was captured and converted to a video.

Watch the lesson

P2 Multiplication

Our P2 pupils learnt their times-table through a dfferent way.... the stairs of Multiplication & Division

It was a visual way for pupils to learn their Times table as they were able to see the numbers increase and the relation between multiplication & division.

LSM Room over the Years

In my school, LSM began in 2007. The room has undergone through many transformations over the years.
One of the key features of the room, is that it is an interactive and engaging room. The things on the wall and floor are not a show piece. It is used as a teaching tool which can be seen in the various videos uploaded.
Pupils also use the materials on the floor to reinforce the concepts taught.
Well, why don't you see the video of the transformation yourselves.

Models (Updated with more websites)

Here are some websites for our P2 pupils. This post serves as an insight into models.

http://www.teach-kids-math-by-model-method.com/ (Click on the links that you want to read. I like this site because it has comprehensive information about models.)

http://www.thesingaporemaths.com/Whymodf.swf

Although the website below deals with P3 questions, it gives us an idea of what is a model and how to draw models. http://www.thesingaporemaths.com/p3math1f.swf

http://www.europa.com/~paulg/mathmodels/math_models.shtml (Go basic operations, click on addition & subtraction to see model animation)

http://sc-math.com/math/model.php#t1 (There are 3 pages to view)

Shots of P2

We started on Multiplication & Division. Here are our photos showing us working.

Number Bond Machines that you can use to Practise the concepts

Here are links to 2 sites that you can use to practise Number Bonds

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html (P2 parents the numbers to 100 game to practise addition)

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/numberbonds_to10.swf (introduces the concept that number bonds is related to addition & subtraction)

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/pairs_that_make_10.swf (mental sum on numbers that make 10)



Parents who need help with how to guide the little ones with number bonds, please give me the weekend to add in the post on the How to. Thanks)

P2 lessons in photos

Here are the P2 pupils in action

Hands on practice (Concrete)

Interactive parctice

We have finished our work so we practice on the PC

Subtraction without regrouping (P2)

Do visit http://numbernut.com/basic/sub_intro.shtml to practise basic subtraction(revision of last year's work)
Practise 3 digit Subtraction which was taught today(without regrouping)- http://numbernut.com/basic/activities/sub_quiz_3noborrow-v.shtml

todays's photos to be uploaded by Sunday

Practice Makes perfect

Our P2 pupils visited Numer Nut, http://www.numbernut.com/basic/activities/add_quiz_3nocarry-v.shtml to practise their addition of 3 digit numbers(without carrying over). Click on start quiz to begin. Pupils remember to show your workings on a piece of paper.
Parents do allow your child to continue practising at home.
It's more fun and interesting than the assessment books although it's the same thing.....
(Photos to be uploaded tonight)

A common Misconception

One of way to find out if pupils have understood the concept is to 'test' them. Pupils have been used to completing the following types of question. Look at the question below.

To test them, I added in an extra line to the question.

Pupils who have not understood the concept of place value or have a misconception, wrote 2 on the line(300 + 2 + 4). According to the pupil, there are 2 groups of ten so he wrote 2 down. However, another pupil pointed out the mistake and explained that it is 20 because there is no ‘tens’ after the blank (P2 pupils cannot really explain properly but the point is the child has understood).
Therefore with the aid of Multi-e toolbox, I tried to explain and demo to the rest what the child had explained about the missing ‘tens’ concept. After lots of practise, they finally understood.
Mission Accomplished.
Lessons that I have Learnt
1) At times, let them try out questions before you teach them a new concept oe expand on an existing concept.
If they get it wrong, they will wonder why and will start questioning and it is an excellent opportunity to develop ‘metacognition’. It also makes them pay attention....
2) Peer-evaluation and peer marking with explanation on why it is right or wrong, is good. It forces them to think about the answer and to justify their marking.

Tips for Parents.
1) Whenever possible ask your child to explain the answer that he/she has written regardless of whether it is right or wrong. When your articulates, your child is running through the process of arriving at the answer and you can check you child’s understanding of the concept.

Numbers to 1000

In my earlier post, I had mentioned about Place value. You may be wondering about its importance. Place value helps pupils understand the concept of numbers. It also helps them when they are comparing or ordering numbers (to be explained in the next post)
In my class, I always ask the pupils to put the digits in their ‘houses’. For instance in 135, 1 is the 100s house, 3 is in the tens house and 5 is in 1s house. So when they read the number, they read as one hundred and thirty-five. This helps pupils who have difficulty recognizing, reading and writing numbers (100-1000).

Refer to the diagram below:



So from this diagram, we have 135 or one hundred and thirty-five.
100 + 30 + 5 = 135

This ‘housing’ also helps pupils when they write the numbers in word numbers and vice versa as they are able to read aloud and write it down.

Parents you may wish to test your little ones in this concept tonight. This site allows them to practise what they have learnt. Please click www.learningbox.com/Base10/BaseTen.html
Remember to click on all 3 buttons on the left so that 1, 10, & 100 is highlighted in green.

Another site http://www.numbernut.com/basic/activities/number_4bar_1-1000.shtml to test their concept on being able to recognize the number words of 100-1000.

Below are some of the pictures. We are extremely lucky and privileged that we have a SMARTBOARD in our class. (thanks toP, VP & IT Dept) The SMARTBOARD, brings the whiteboard to live. It's like having a mouse on the board plus coloured pen plus recorder. Yes, it can record every movement made on the board. Today, I will show pictures and activties that have taken place so far.

If you wish to read more about place value, there is an interesting article in http://www.garlikov.com/PlaceValue.html. (take note, its rather long)