Number Busting

Here is our first instalment of Numeracy News.

Each fortnight keep your eyes open for information on how we teach numeracy in the school and on ways you can support your child at home.   

This week our focus is ‘Number Busting’.  Number busting is a warm up strategy that each class in the school uses three times a week.  Students are given a starting number and are then to partition this number as many ways as they can in a given time.  Number busting is a fantastic way of revising and reinforcing different skills, techniques and concepts that are learnt in class.  

In blue are some cues you might like to use if you want to try some number busting at home.

Can you make your number with counters? (buttons, beads, peas etc)

How can you split your number into two groups, three groups, four groups etc.

Can you make a ____ pattern (+10, +20, takeaway, double and halve?)

Can you put your number on a number line?

Can you write a word problem for your number?