1. Helping Your Child With Homework 19 th February 2013

2. Money  Sorting coins is the first step  Value is most important  Swap coins  Go to the shop  Change – counting on approach  For addition, subtraction and division put down the decimal place as you go.  For multiplication, the decimal point jumps into the answer.

3. Time  Use every opportunity to talk about time.  Days of the Week, Months, Seasons  Buy a watch  Analogue/Digital Clock  Use the TV guide, Timetables  Half an hour, Quarter of an hour  Am/pm  Express digital as analogue, vice versa  24 hour clock

4.  Match started at 11.50. It lasted 30 mins and there was a 5 min interval. What time did it end? What time did it end? hrs mins hrs mins 3 46 7 40 3 46 7 40 4 27 1 55 4 27 1 55 How long does a journey last? ( 09.20 – 12.05)

5. Problem Solving   What I need to find out?   What am I being asked?   RUDE   Estimating   Rounding   Simplify   Re-phrase   Does it make sense

6. Problem Solving

7. First Class  Add or Subtract  A farmer had some sheep. He bought some more. How many has he now?  There was 15 balloons at the party. 4 burst. How many were left?

8. Second Class Problem  There were 23 birds on a wire. 14 more came along. Then 7 flew away. How many were left on the wire?  John has 25 sweets. Mary has 9 more than John. How many have they altogether?

9. Third Class Problem  A shopping centre has 86 shops. 48 of them are on the ground floor and the rest are on the first floor. How many are on the first floor?  David had 24 sweets. He shared them with his five friends. How many sweets did each person get?

10. Fourth Class Problem  Yesterday a bus had 15 passengers on board. 6 people got on the bus at the next stop and 2 got off. 12 got on at the second stop and 9 got off. What day of the week was it?  A farmer bought 500 cabbage plants. He planted 24 rows of cabbage plants with 16 cabbages in each row. How many plants had he left over?

11. Fifth Class problem  321 pupils were organised into 11-a-side soccer teams. Were there many children left without a team?

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