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Activity sheet: Make your own playdough
Playdough is a simple, fun way to explore measurement and fractions at home.
Activity sheet: Measurement
A simple, fun activity to build measurement skills.
About this topic: Fractions, decimals and percentages
A clear, straight-forward explanation and reminder of key terms for this maths topic.
About this topic: Addition and Subtraction
A clear, straight-forward explanation and reminder of key terms for this maths topic.
What's it for: Addition and Subtraction
Ever wondered why kids are taught some things? Find out the purpose behind this topic, and how this kind of maths gets used for work.
Getting started for families
A short guide for families to get Town Squared up and running at home.
Maths in Town Squared: maths in the Factory
Children measure ingredients to make items in the Factory using fractions, decimals and percentages, and by converting between them. Success means they can keep some of the items they make, to use in quests to help their quest team get a better result.
Maths in Town Squared: maths in Sprite flights
Children help the clean sprites go home by plotting out 2D shapes of a specified type, and tracing these in the sky. These puzzles explore shapes and area. Making enough of the right types of shapes earns a quest ticket.
About this topic: Measurement
A clear, straight-forward explanation and reminder of key terms for measurement.
What’s it for: Measurement
Ever wondered why children are taught some things? Find out how measurement gets used at home and work.
Maths in Town Squared: Blocks as in-game currency
Some children struggle to translate their maths skills to real world problems, like managing money. Town Squared uses a virtual currency to explore the ideas of value, earning, saving, spending, investing, sharing and giving.
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