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Advice for K-6 Maths

Hi all,
I am just starting out as a casual teacher (finished uni) and compiling resources for day to day casual teaching for K-6 - I am looking fro maths activities for k-6.

I am trying to find fun interactive games using dice and card games for all ages.

I feel very nervous about having to teach maths and feel this may be a good way to go about it for day to day casual teaching.

If anyone could offer any suggestions and book titles that would help, I would be very grateful.

Dane

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Advice for K-6 Maths

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Mar 08, 2010
 Resources
by: Maggie

There is another fantastic web site that has great ideas for maths games for consolidating concepts. Try teacherresourcesgalore.com. This is an Australian site and has a great selection of Literacy and Numeracy activities.
Also look for resources written by the guru Paul Swan. A West Australian teacher who is awesome.
Feb 13, 2010
 storing cards
by: Kellie

Was doing some PD during the week, and one lady had her decks of cards stored in soap holders - the plastic type that you use for holidays and camping. Each box had an identifying sticker on them, so there was some ownership and accountability on the students' part
Feb 13, 2010
 Free packs of cards
by: Anne

You should be able to pick up free packs of cards from any casino. The casino in Cairns is quite happy to give boxes of used packs of cards to schools or teachers. The cards have a hole through them but are great for lots of maths activities.
Jan 31, 2010
 Box Cars
by: Kellie

If you are at a school and can get into their library one lunch time, look for any "Box Cars" resources. There are many different booklets which contain heaps of games. You may need to invest in some packs of cards and dice to travel around with you, but you can really consolidate many skills in a very fun way with these. Good Luck. I love relieving - it taught me quickly, without the day to day pressures of being at the school full time. Also use the time to develop folders and "sea gull" as much as you can. I recently handed on a few sheets to a colleague that I collected over 15 years ago. Good ideas are timeless.
Jan 27, 2010
 maths k-6
by: Vee

Hi Dane,

Welcome to teaching...

I have taught grade 6 for the past 4 years and year 4 for the previous 2.(currently in year 1 for the first time!) I found a brilliant website full of interactive games (useful if you have an interactive whiteboard)
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx

For other ideas on fun maths activities I always refer to the trusty NSW maths syllabus work samples for ideas for each stage.

http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/maths/maths_k6_ws.pdf

I think it depends on the type of students you have. You always need modified activities to suit each group of ability. Open ended questions are fantastic as it gets kids thinking more about maths and caters for each ability as a whole group. Questions like: Pretend the number '2' key is broken on the calculator. How many ways can you make the answer equal 12 without using the '2' key? eg 4 x 3, 6 + 6, 13 - 1, (the answers are endless)

Hope these ideas help you out. Just remember to make maths fun so that there are no taboo's about maths as they grow as a learner...
Jan 27, 2010
 Circle Champion
by: Indypoppy

My class last year loved a game called circle champion...basically you can have a circle with one student to be the starting champion. They stand behind one of the people in the circle. The teacher throws two (could be three) dice and it is a competition between the two to add the two numbers as quickly as possible, the student who gets this then continues to be the circle champion or a new champion continues around the circle. Possibly this could be a multiplication game as well.

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