Click to read about the purpose of the tasks below (show purpose).
The tasks in this section are intended:
- for students in year 1
- to complement similar class tasks
- to be a selection only of enjoyable learning opportunities for your child (and for you)
- to generate useful explanations and discussions between you and your child.
The tasks in this section are NOT:
- intended to be comprehensive in their coverage of all maths at year 1
- intended to be ‘one off’ tasks. Feel free to review or modify these to suit the needs of your child.
These Year 1 tasks recognise that students:
- are mostly working at early level 1 of the NZ Curriculum, growing in their understanding of number, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics
- are learning about numbers and how to read and write them, and about different kinds of maths tasks
- learn from tasks presented in a variety of ways
- respond well to supportive questions from adults, such as, ‘What do you know that might help you?’
- enjoy exploring open tasks and ‘discovering’ maths ideas.
We suggest that you ask your child what kinds of things they have been doing in maths at school, and select a task from this menu.
Click for versions with Māori content.
Number
| Spot the numeral (PDF, 317KB) |
Go on a hunt looking for numbers in and around your home. |
| Spot the number (PDF, 300KB) |
Go on a hunt looking for larger numbers in and around your home. |
| Family maths (PDF, 531KB) |
Make up and record number stories. |
| Fair shares (PDF, 778KB) |
Understand how to share things equally. |
| Guess what I can see (PDF, 188KB) |
I spy, using numbers of objects. |
| Cutting cakes (PDF, 610KB) |
Find ways to cut a 'cake' into halves and quarters. |
Algebra
Geometry
Measurement
Statistics
