Term 1 Week 8

Achievement Objectives

1.3 communicate about numbers, using days of the week, months and dates

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to:

• count in te reo Māori
• write the date in te reo Māori
• recognise the days of the week and months of the year

Numbers

Numbers in te reo Māori are grouped into ones, tens, hundreds, thousands etc. If the first digit or number is one we use ‘Kotahi’ instead of tahi

For example:

9751                 9 thousand        7 hundreds            5 tens & one
                          iwa mano           whitu rau               rima tekau mā tahi

If there are zero thousands, hundreds, tens or ones we leave these out

For example:

1,023               1 thousand         0 hundreds            2 tens & three
                        Kotahi mano                                       rua tekau mā toru

190                                              1 hundred              9 tens & zero ones
                                                     Kotahi rau              iwa tekau

The prefix ‘tua’ in front of a number gives it a place. E.g. tuatahi = first, tuarua =second etc. However, it is only used for numbers 1-9. For numbers 10+ we use the word ‘te’ e.g. te tekau = 10th, te tekau mā tahi = 11th etc

Writing the date

Ko (day of the week) te (number) o (month)

Ko Rāhina te tuatahi o Hanuere                   Monday the 1st of January