Q&A - P1 Math

[sembgal]

You are welcome. You can arrange the concrete objects: eg, erasers in 1 row. Make small number cards and get the child to arrange from 1 to 20 first for a start. Now, ask the child, what number comes before 13? What number comes after 19? Treat it like a Math game. The objective is to let the child understand what is before and what is after.

[jedamum]

Steadyberry,

Your problem sum, reinforce step by step.
Get your girl to identify who has more and who has lesser. Write out ‘more’ on top of the name with more. Then the difference between the two number will be how much more or how much lesser.
Not sure if this is your query.
Maybe you can give a question example.

[starz]

Hi

I need some help here. My child is rather weak in maths. Right now for p1 they are doing add by making 10s and using ones to add. However between these 2 methods, she is very confuse and don’t understand n keep doing wrong despite I taught her many times? Any advice to help my child? Thanks

[plum-cake]

mceducation1:

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[hellokittyspore]

starz:

Hi

I need some help here. My child is rather weak in maths. Right now for p1 they are doing add by making 10s and using ones to add. However between these 2 methods, she is very confuse and don't understand n keep doing wrong despite I taught her many times? Any advice to help my child? Thanks

For my dd, I start her off by understanding the concept using toy -> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/549892239/Plastic_Math_Stacking_Cubes_QL_015.html.

This is how her preschool teaches maths as well.

[phtthp]

hellokittyspore:

For my dd, I start her off by understanding the concept using toy -> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/549892239/Plastic_Math_Stacking_Cubes_QL_015.html.

This is how her preschool teaches maths as well.

Don't mind if u can share how you use the colorful cubes to teach a child addition ? Tq v much, for kind sharing.

[hellokittyspore]

phtthp:

hellokittyspore:

For my dd, I start her off by understanding the concept using toy -> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/549892239/Plastic_Math_Stacking_Cubes_QL_015.html.

This is how her preschool teaches maths as well.

Don't mind if u can share how you use the colorful cubes to teach a child addition ? Tq v much, for kind sharing.

For number bonds, I will prepare two big card boards and provide my dd with the number cubes e.g. 5. I will request her to find the different ways to allocate the 5 cubes to the two given card boards.
For addition and subtraction, I will give her the cubes in two different colours for the initial number and the other number to be added/to be taken away.
I find it useful when I started my dd with ordering of numbers beyond tens. When I first introduced her to number beyond 10s, her understanding of the concept of tens and ones is very not good. I uses the cubes to show her the meaning of ones, tens, twenties etc so that she has visual view of the numbers. With the visual views, she can perform ordering in ascending or descending orders better.
For multiplication, I just need to increase the number of card board to allocate the cubes. In short, I'm letting my dd understand by visualise the concept. Hopes that I have answer to your query.

[snowball32]

Hi,


My DD subscribe to Maths +venture and I find that their explanation and teaching methods using number bonds and breaking up numbers helped my DD understand the concepts.

It is a good supplement to the school textbook.

My DD faced some problems with interpreting and understanding the questions in her school Maths worksheet. After reinforcing the teaching methods, she can now grasp and do her Maths worksheets with little help from me.

[hellokittyspore]

starz:

Hi

I need some help here. My child is rather weak in maths. Right now for p1 they are doing add by making 10s and using ones to add. However between these 2 methods, she is very confuse and don't understand n keep doing wrong despite I taught her many times? Any advice to help my child? Thanks

Try to ensure that your child's number bond below 10 foundation is strong. Once she understand number bond. Above is easy.

[sembgal]

You can buy good quality unifix cubes from Amazon. Unifix cubes are good concrete materials for children to manipulate. There is so much you can do with unifix cubes, from practising fine motor skill to counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, patterning and measuring.