This page contains links to various websites, resources and apps that have been designed to support parents with home learning in mathematics/numeracy.
Websites
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FUSE DEpartment of Education |
Teaching mathematics in remote / online learning scenarios can be challenging. This page provides the busy teacher with strategies, supports and ideas to ensure that their students are able to continue to access high quality, proficiency rich pedagogy that will ensure numeracy and mathematics development through the period of online learning. The resources contained on this page are also able to be used in the regular classroom or for homework activities, ideas or projects. |
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Dr Paul Swan |
Dr Paul has a fabulous collection of free downloadable materials. These materials are classified against age and also contain a star system ranking the support required from a parent/older sibling. Suitable for years F - 10 |
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Mathematics and numeracy at home Department of Education and Training Victoria |
Support for parents who are embarking on home learning. Suggestions of activities at different year levels, videos, and advice. |
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Mathematics Task Centre
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A great source of investigations that are suitable for home learning. |
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MAWA |
Have Sum Fun Online, an interactive maths quiz for students, will soon be avaiable for students from levels 3 - 10 to do at home. Check the website at havesumfunonline.com to see when the competitions are available in the three school terms ahead, and to see the types of problems to be included. The HSFOL school team competitions will run as usual for schools that are open at the given times; but by then an individual competition for students at home, using the same sets of problems, will also be available. |
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Introduction to Actuarial Science The Australian National University |
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Independent Schools Victoria |
Early Years teachers network - transition to remote learning |
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Love Maths |
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ORIGO Education |
Guidance and instruction for continuing maths learning at home. We have created weekly, digital content plans for home use. The weekly plans contain activities for each day, along with digitally accessible or downloadable resources, designed for delivery by a caregiver or remote teacher. These resources complement the mathematical concepts and skills your students are learning at their year level. |
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Daily video lessons for Primary aged children National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics |
These short videos are intended to provide primary school pupils with interactive lessons while they are at home. Parents or teachers can choose how regularly they set them, but it is important that, within each batch, they are set in the suggested order. Most lessons are between 15 to 20 minutes long, each ending with suggested follow-up tasks. All lessons exemplify a teaching for mastery approach to maths. For each age group, a new batch of lessons is added here every week. |
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NRICH |
NRICH poster problems are a weekly mathematics challenge. Designed for the northern hemispheres summer break, these problems are great remote learning tasks. After students have had a go at the problem, they can compare their approach to the soultions that have been published. |
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The Smith Family |
Children’s education charity, The Smith Family, has launched a new learning tool on Facebook Messenger to help children with their maths skills. The Let’s Count Parent bot on Facebook Messenger is an interactive platform that uses everyday activities and objects to suggest ways in which parents and carers can support their children’s maths learning. The program, designed for children aged three to five, includes activities like counting steps, ordering fruit by weight and comparing street signs whilst out and about. The Let’s Count program was launched in 2009 and has helped over 122,000 children across the country with their maths skills. The Smith Family is now hoping thousands more will be reached through the free, accessible, and easy to use Facebook Messenger tool. |
The Australian National University (ANU) is running a special version of its popular 
The following courses through 
Love Maths has a wide range of engaging games that have been selected specifically because they are well suited for remote education. These games are also easy to play, do not require very much in terms of resources and are filled with rich learning opportunities. Each game comes with a short video that outlines the rules and also demonstrates some of the key mathematical concepts covered.
Apps suitable for home learning
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Applie/iOS Android |
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Infinite Voyage app Department of Education and Training Victoria |
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| The Dance of Geometry |
Apple/iOS Android |
| Geoboard, by The Maths Learning Centre |
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The Explore your world walk on the Made By Maths app can be conducted in any build environment. It draws upon features such as fences, door knobs and grates.
Infinite Voyage takes place on a spaceship that is searching for suitable places where humankind can relocate. To keep the spaceship running, there are a variety of challenges to complete.
This app contains a number of geometric challenges, for example finding a side length or an area which is part of a composite shape. It is presented as a game, with varying levels of difficulty.
This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended education tool that is available on hand held and desktop devices
