It’s simple, if you do the maths

Kidsnews.com.au is offering free daily school-day and education tasks and fun activities to help parents children who want to learn at home during the coronavirus disruption.

These activities have been tailored into four

3-4; categories for students in Prep to Grade 2; Years

Years 5-6; and Years 7-9 to allow for age-based learning. The free activities are written by qualified, practising teachers in accordance with/with reference to the Australian National Curriculum 2020 and are intended to be used as a guide for parents.

More lessons, such as today’s maths tasks, found at our website:

APPROX: 60 MINS ACTIVITY:

The aim of this activity is to experience percentages in a real-life use and to manipulate the data to create a graph to aid in understanding the information.

The following Kids News article is about changes in insect populations. It explains that the world has lost more than one-quarter of its landdwelling insects — such as ants, bees, butterflies, grasshoppers and fireflies — in the past 30 years. However, freshwater bugs such as dragonflies and mosquitoes have increased about 33 per cent in the same period.

The findings were based on 166 sets of data on more than 10,000 species from 1676 sites in 41 countries dating as far back as 1925.

Read the full news article and then complete the Classroom Activity and Extension, which require you to create a graph and collect data. kidsnews.com.au/animals/researchshows-land-insect-numbers-arefalling-and-putting-the-worldsecosystems-at-risk/newsstory/0dec51594 ee7a5965758ac3

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Curriculum links:

Mathematics — Statistics and Probability — Data representation and interpretation

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