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      Work Unit: Mr Moon’s feathery problem - Calculate

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      This unit of work provides a rich, contextual activity through which students can explore the applications of measurement (length, area and capacity), to a real problem in an everyday context for Students in Years 5 & 6.

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      Inquiry Prompt Ribbon Bow - Calculate

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      This open-ended task challenges students to carry out a mathematical investigation using a ribbon-bow as a stimulus. They are encouraged to develop their own research questions and investigate possible solutions using using mathematical problem solving and modelling strategies.

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      Transformations Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

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      This lesson helps students explore different shape transformations and describe symmetry in objects and images.

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      Pattern & Algebra Year 4 - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to discover if students can use numbers to describe a pattern created with objects. We want to encourage students to record what they know about the pattern in a table and then use this information to help predict future terms and identify the rule or function for the pattern. By recording ...

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      Investigating Measurement (Year 3 & 4) - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to find out what students know and understand about length and the metric system.

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      Pattern & Algebra Year 6 - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity to challenge students to unpack a rule and see if it is being used correctly. Often students will just learn a rule and blindly use it. This task gets students to stop and think and then make corrections to ensure the rule works in all cases (generalise).

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      Pattern & Algebra Year 2 - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to discover if students can use numbers to describe a pattern that it written as a description. From here we are interested in finding out if students can interpret the pattern, discover the rule and apply this rule to find missing or future terms.

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      Whisper Whisper Loud - Calculate

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      This game explores number sequences and practises skip counting.

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      Time Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

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      This lesson focuses on different ways to tell time.

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      Introduction to Shapes Year 2 - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to discover the language that students are using to describe the features of shapes. Although students may know the names of many shapes, and may know the difference between a square and a circle, the description of why these shapes are different may not be mathematically accurate. Listen to ...

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      Shapes: Which One Doesn't Belong? - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to discover what students know shapes, including their features and properties. What language are students using to describe and sort shapes? How can we as teachers help students increase their shape vocabulary?

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      Making Shapes (Foundation lesson) - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to encourage students to check their shape to ensure/prove that it is a hexagon. Students need to develop an understanding that good mathematicians find solutions to problems, check to see if their solution is correct and explain their thinking.

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      Pattern & Algebra Year 3 - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to discover if students can use numbers to describe a pattern created with objects. We want to encourage students to record what they know about the pattern in a table and then use this information to help predict future terms and identify the rule or function for the pattern. At this stage, ...

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      The Geometry and Algebra of Honeycomb - Calculate

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      This integrated unit of work explores the amazing structures of honeycomb by examining the properties of regular and irregular polygons and polyhedra. Students then move on to solve problems using geometric and algebraic reasoning.

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      Salute - Calculate

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      This game gives students opportunities to practise addition and subtraction strategies and develop algebraic thinking by finding unknown values in additive equations.

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      Café Fractions - Calculate

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      In this task, students take the role of the owner of a cake wholesaler, baking and supplying cakes to local café businesses. As café owners order their weekly cakes by the slice, students are required to add unit fractions together to calculate total cake orders. They then solve problems associated with subtracting fractional ...

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      ROWCO - Calculate

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      ROWCO is a card game that will help students practice their addition facts while playing an engaging strategy game.

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      'Dog In, Cat Out' - Time Unit - Calculate

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      Using the Australian children's book 'Dog In, Cat Out' (written by Gillian Rubinstein and illustrated by Ann James) the lesson sequences and activities in this unit are a way to help children from Foundation to Grade 2 level gain an understanding of the concept of time, its measurement and its numeration.

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      Pattern & Algebra Year 5 - Calculate

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      The focus of this activity is to discover if students can interpret information in a table and use fractions (with the same denominator) to represent different amounts. We want to encourage students to use what they know about to interpret the information in the table before applying their understanding of fractions.

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      Fraction War - Calculate

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      This game, played in pairs with a of dominoes, challenges students to create fractions and compare their values. The player with the higher value fraction wins each round and the associated domino. The game is played until one player owns all the dominoes.

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