| Subject: Helping with maths |
Author:
Dawn Strachan
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Date Posted: 17:38:39 06/16/12 Sat
Hello again, I've nearly finished the course now and enjoyed every minute of it.
Today I was reading about supporting children with Maths. The course talked about the difficulties a child may experience with sequencing and talked about putting numbers in order. With my own children where younger and other children I have worked with since, I have relied alot on "the fishing game". A series of paper fish on the floor with a paperclip through or attached to them. The player(s) hold a rod (a short stick with a piece of thread attached to one end and a magnet dangling from it). The purpose being to fish out the numbers in the correct order (1-10, 10-1, 1-100 in 10's,etc) in can be adapted in so many ways but because it is (I have found) such an enjoyable activity the children relax and are better able to relax and succeed. I have also used it like a pairs game with a sum on one fish and an answer on another and the idea been to fish out a sum and the appropriate answer, or with sequencing the alphabet or completely unrelated pulling out a word and its meaning, the options are endless but I hope someone may read this and be able to use it and find it helpful themselves.
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