These might involve children in interviewing adults, watching television programs or reading. If the children need to borrow books from the school library or the local library, they are given plenty of time for this to be done. N umeracy skills Children have many opportunities at home to develop numeracy skills. Handling money, telling the time, interpreting a television program guide, measuring, cooking and solving everyday problems are mathematical activities. We urge parents to involve their children in these as often as possible.
Children can reinforce number facts and the multiplication tables at home.
We do a great deal of work at school in helping children understand and learn about numbers, and this can be built on at home by number facts and tables practice. They can be practised by rote and through playing games. By the end of Year 3 children should also know the number combinations of numbers up to 20 and the x3, x4 and x11 tables. By the end of Year 4 children should also know the x6, x7, x8, x9 and x12 tables. C hildren in the first years of school should not spend any more than 15 minutes at a time doing homework.