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.
The versions of the tasks below include suggested questions to ask and, where appropriate, worksheets, in Māori.
Number
Algebra
| He Tauira Pirepire (Bead patterns) (PDF, 749KB) |
Make and talk about patterns of beads. |
| Te Whakaoti Rapanga (Drawing and thinking) (PDF, 1.1MB) |
Show how you can record the ways you solve problems. |
Geometry
| Whakapupuni (Hide and seek) (PDF, 1.1MB) |
Practise using words to describe position and movement. |
Measurement
| Te Raupapa Mahi (Time patterns) (PDF, 522KB) |
Place the events in a day (and a week) in order. |
