| What opportunities do ethnically diverse classrooms offer for enriching numeracy activities? |
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Once teachers find out more about the backgrounds of the children they teach, they can draw on a rich variety of interesting ideas and activities to liven up the classroom. One project has identified board games such as Carrom, which are relatively unknown outside Asian communities, or the Asian practice of strand counting, in which family members count on their fingers, using finger-joints to represent one unit. 
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You could find out more about the games that children play in their free time, by basing a project on leisure. As a part of this, you could ask children to bring in a game, or artefact of a game, from home, and ask them to describe it to the class. By encouraging children to focus on the unusual you could increase the chances of them bringing in games that are new to you and the rest of the class. Make a note of the different games children talk about. Putting the evidence to work Now you have a variety of potential resources for numeracy activities, are there some which you could use to introduce new learning, or for developing existing skills? You could use the mathematics unit plans on the DfES website as a guide for selecting appropriate resources.  Find out more about the TLRP Home-school knowledge exchange project at: http://www.tlrp.org/project%20sites/HomeSchool/index.htmFind out more about effective home-school liaisons at:http://www.gtce.org.uk/policyandresearch/research/ROMtopics/parentalrom/ or http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes/parents/ Mathematics unit plans can be found at: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/mathematics/ |
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