Meeting Diverse Learning Needs

Tahi Maths gives ākonga an opportunity to respond to Te Tau o te Rā/The Number of the Day at their own individual ability level.

Ākonga responses to Te Tau o te Rā/The Number of the Day provides the teacher with an insight into what ākonga know about numbers. 

There is no right or wrong.

Teachers are able to make individual teaching points or take a concept to the whole group to teach.

Examples:

A child had written 4+2=5 so I used my fingers to show that when there are 4 and 1 more we get 5 and one more is 6 so that 4 and 2 more is 6. 

A child had written 2-5=3 so I showed that we usually write 5-2=3 and if we did take 5 away from 2 we would get negative 3. A number line was drawn to show this.

A child had written 1,000+900=2,000 so I showed how to line up the numbers in columns to add together to get 1,900.

A child has written 05+2=07 so I showed how to line up the numbers in columns to add 50 and 20 to get 70. I also showed that 50+2=52.

A child had drawn a circle and drawn lines to cut the circle it into 8 pieces then coloured half of it. I took the opportunity to show that we could represent the drawing with the number equation 4+4=8 or the fraction ½ of 8=4.