Homegroup TP and L- Class news - Numeracy
Over the last few weeks of this term we will be learning about the value of Australian coins and notes, finding totals and how much change may be given during a purchase. As part of this work, the students will be setting up ‘St. Angela’s Shop’ in the classroom and making their own price labels for items in the shop. To coincide with our consistent approach to our school values, we will begin to reward the students with ‘coins’ each time they follow the school expectations. They will collect their earnings in a ziplock bag in the classroom. At the end of the week they will be able to spend their money in the school shop, choosing from small items such as pencils, erasers, pads of paper, hair accessories, etc. They will need to find the correct amount to buy an item or calculate how much change they will need back. This will give them a real-life experience and purpose for their learning on money.
The students in Homegroup TP and L have been exploring different ways to collect, display and understand data sets. The students have been creating open survey questions and posing these questions to their classmates to collect data, using this information to construct data displays such as bar graphs, pie graphs and line graphs. The students have been learning to understand the importance of the features of a data display such as a clear title, x and y axis, categories and the even spread of numbers, the features that make a graph easy to interpret. The students have done this by comparing a wide range of data displays and discussing similarities and differences.
