Purpose:
You can help your child to learn the number of 10s, 100s, and 1000s in big numbers.
What you need:
- Newspaper or 'junk' mail (supermarket or store advertising mailers)
- Scissors
- Pen and paper
What to do:
Help your child find large numbers from the newspaper/mailers. Cut out about 10 numbers.
Choose some between 1-100, 100-1000 and 1000-100,000
Supermarket: 1-100
Shop mailers: 100-1000
Motoring or real estate: 1000-100,000
Choose one of the numbers and ask your child to write it on a piece of paper.
Ask your child
- how many thousands are in this number?
- how many hundreds are in this number?
- how many tens are in this number?
Write the answers down and ask your child if they can see a pattern.
What to expect your child to do:
- To be able to read the big numbers and put them in order.
- To know how many tens, hundreds and thousands are in numbers up to a million.
Variations:
Look at numbers together when you are shopping, watching TV or travelling long distance.
He Kupu Māori:
| put in order/sequence | raupapa (-hia) |
He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:
- Kimihia ētahi tau nui i roto i te nūpepa. (Find some big numbers in the newspaper.)
- Tirohia te wāhanga hoko motukā me te wāhanga hoko whare. (Look at the sections selling cars and houses.)
- Tapahia ngā tau nui, ka pānui ai. (Cut out the big numbers and read them.)
- Raupapahia ngā tau mai i te iti ki te nui. (Order the numbers from small to large.)
- Tuhia tēnei tau ki te pepa. (Write this number on the paper.)
- E hia katoa ngā mano kei roto i tēnei tau? (How many thousands altogether are in this number?)
- E hia katoa ngā rau kei roto i tēnei tau? (How many hundreds altogether are in this number?)
- E hia katoa ngā tekau kei roto i tēnei tau? (How many tens altogether are in this number?)
- E hia katoa ngā kotahi kei roto i tēnei tau? (How many ones altogether are in this number?)
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