Years 3/4: Numeracy Tasks

• Ask someone older to play a dice game with you. Roll the dice 5 times and add up the numbers in your head as you go. Ask the other person to write down the numbers then check your answer with a calculator. Take it in turns to do this. Increase the number of times you roll the dice until you roll it ten times each.
• Find out shoe sizes for each member of your family. Order them –see if you can trace around each person’s foot to help you represent the order.
• Play a game of Snap with someone older, where you snap when the number is 3 more than the original card e.g. you would ‘snap’ when someone puts down a ‘7’ card on top of a ‘4’ card.
• Stand in your lounge room. How many circles can you see? Talk about your findings with an adult. Now try your bedroom.
• Look through the junk mail. If you had $20, what would you buy and how much change would you get? Can you name the coins that would make up your change?
• Make a list of TV programs you will watch tonight. How much time will you spend watching TV tonight? Ask three other people in your family the same question.
• Write in order the birth dates for your family (year, month, day). Talk with an adult about the strategies you will use to set this out.
• Set the table for dinner. How many pieces of cutlery did you use? What if you had twice as many people?