Unit 2

This week's objectives are:

To read, write and order whole numbers to at least 1000

To count on or back in tens and hundreds from any two or three digit number

To know what each digit represents

By the end of this unit, you could be able to:


To read and write whole numbers in figures and words, and know what each digit represents.

To recognise and extend number sequences formed by counting from any number of steps in constant size.


Vocabulary:

How many of these words do you know? Could you explain what they mean to your shoulder partner?


two-digit number, three-digit number, hundreds, tens and ones, counting on, counting back, before, after, place value

Home learning

Collect 10 three-digit car numbers. Write them down in order. Make each number 10 less.
Now make each number 10 more. Read out the numbers to a friend, remembering that 247 is two hundred and forty seven and not 2-4-7.

Weblinks

All of the following links related to this week's objectives.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr3/3.html

http://www.sums.co.uk/playground/c4a/playground.htm

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=503&engine=15

http://www.emaonline.org.uk/ema/client_files/resources_ftp/netmedia/digitwize/english/notes.htm

http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/puzzlemaths/pinpoint_game.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/whatarenumbers/comparing/game1.swf

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=ncmenu

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=ntrack

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=washindex6

Useful resources for using the whiteboard:
We will be using lots of these sites during our Booster lessons. Have a go at some of them on your own!

http://del.icio.us/mathslinks lots of online maths activities for each area of numeracy


http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ this has examples for each area of numeracy from Foundation to Year 6

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html explains mathematical vocabulary with a worked example


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html interactive maths games


http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html great for teaching maths concepts using the IWB; scroll down to the Teacher’s toolkit, which includes calculators, place value cards, hundred squares etc.


http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/index.htm maths starter of the day


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/countdown/index.htm countdown numbers game (turn the speakers up, as it even has the music!)


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/broken-calculator/index.htm broken calculator


http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/ great for use during the oral and mental starter sessions