Purpose:
To help your child to develop their knowledge of place value - the number of tens in numbers up to hundred.
What you need:
Magazines or 'junk' mail - advertising leaflets for supermarkets and stores.
What to do:
Help your child to cut out numbers in the range 1 – 100 from the newspaper or circulars.
Work together to sort the numbers in piles of the same decade - 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s
Skip counting the number of tens in the number (10, 20, 30…).
For example, for 56 skip count 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 using your fingers to count the 5 tens.
When you have the numbers in piles ask your child what is the same about the numbers.
For example all the 50s numbers start with 5 and have 5 tens in them.
Help your child to cut out a few more numbers and ask “How many tens are in this number? What pile does it belong in?”
What to expect your child to do:
To firstly skip count in tens, then to recognise the digit in the tens place also tells them the number of tens in the number.
Variation:
- As you come across other numbers up to 100 ask your child how many tens are in the number.
- Use other languages to count in 10s
He Kupu Māori:
| ten | tekau |
| twenty | rua tekau |
| thirty | toru tekau |
| forty | whā tekau |
| fifty | rima tekau |
| sixty | ono tekau |
| seventy | whitu tekau |
| eighty | waru tekau |
| ninety | iwa tekau |
| pile | whakaputu (-a) |
| count | tatau (ria) |
He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:
- Kimihia ngā tau mai i te 0 ki te 100, ka tapahia ai. (Look for numbers from 0 te 100 and cut them out.)
- Tatauria ngā tekau kei roto i tēnā tau. (Count the tens in that number.)
- E hia ngā tekau kei roto i tēnā tau? Tatauria. (How many tens in that number? Count them)
- Tatauria ngā tekau i ō matimati. (Count the tens on your fingers.)
- Whakaputua ngā rima tekau ki konā, ngā ono tekau ki konā ... (Make a pile of the 50’s there, the 60’s there ...)
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