HW Ideas – Mathematics

  • Mathletics
  • Khan Academy – khanacademy.org
  • Online Maths game
  • Involve  family members in financial planning
  • Discuss how to spend pocket money
  • Round and estimate a running total in the supermarket
  • Estimate distances and times when driving
  • Encourage the use of telling time using analogue clocks
  • Kids to plan and prepare meals
  • Best value for items when shopping – some supermarkets have unit prices on digital price tags
  • Track weather temperatures
  • Design a scale drawing of dream home/their bedroom
  • Challenge parents to board games e.g. chess
  • Share knowledge of what you learn at school, especially algebra
  • Puzzles e.g. Kankan, Sudoku
  • Analyse graphs and tables in newspapers (and find errors if possible)