Purpose:
You can help your child to order numbers including fractions, decimals and percentages.
What you need:
- Newspaper, junk mail or old magazines
- Scissors
What to do:
Help your child to look for a collection of numbers and cut these out. Try to find numbers of a mixture of types, including decimals, fractions and integers.
Once you have a pile of numbers (10 to 15 would be plenty) put them in order from smallest to largest. Ask your child questions about the order of numbers as you work:
- Which is the smallest number?
- Which number is next smallest?
- What counting number is this number closest to?
- How can we tell which number is bigger if one is a fraction and one is a decimal?
Help your child to identify numbers that are missing from the sequence.
- What number would be one more than this one?
- What number would be one less than this one?
If you have found percentages, discuss how these can be included. A percentage needs to be a percentage of something, but you could treat all percentages as percentages of 1, so that for example 50% is equivalent to 0.5.
Variations:
Add numbers that you did not find in the newspaper such as improper fractions or negative numbers.
He Kupu Māori:
fraction | hautau |
decimal number | tau ā-ira |
order, sequence | raupapa (-hia) |
bigger | nui ake |
smaller | iti ake |
negative number | tau tōraro |
He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:
- Kimihia ētahi momo tau i roto i ngā nūpepa me ngā moheni nei. Tapahia ngā tau ka kitea e koe. (Look for different types of numbers in these newspapers and magazines. Cut out the numbers you find.)
- Raupapahia ēnei tau mai i te iti ki te rahi. (Put these numbers in order from smallest to biggest.)
- He hautau tēnei tau. He tau ā-ira tēnei. Me pēhea e mōhiotia ai ko tēhea te tau nui ake? (This number is a fraction. This is a decimal number. How do we know which is bigger?)
- He aha te tauoti e pātata ana? (What is the closest whole number?)
- He aha te tau kotahi te rahinga ake i tēnei? (What number is one greater than this?)
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