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First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 2

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The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding operations, calculating, and reasoning about number patterns.

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First steps in mathematics: Space

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This guide supports teachers to develop students’ geometric understandings.

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Categorisation

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Use this task to assess students’ knowledge and understanding of properties of shapes, and language they use when describing common features.

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Additive strategies: Video and teaching guide

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This video explores the use of computation strategies, rounding and estimation in real-world, additive situations. Use the video with the supporting teacher guide as a springboard to explore mathematical concepts. A range of strategies such as compensation and partitioning are demonstrated. Estimation and rounding are highlighted ...

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First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 1

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The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding whole and decimal numbers, and understanding fractional numbers.

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Fractions: Design your own Flag - Calculate

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This activity allows students to explore the concept of fractions with a focus on quarters. Adaptions can be made by changing the fraction. We want students to discover that the same fraction can look different but still have the same quantity/ amount.

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Fractions: Lili's Breakfast - Calculate

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This activity allows students to explore the concept of fractions in a familiar context. It lets them discover halves, quarters and eighths.

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Measurement (Measure My Island) - Calculate

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This activity allows students to learn about measuring by measuring attributes of irregular shapes. The use of informal units is an important step in order to develop understandings of what it looks like when measuring the attributes of length, perimeter and area.

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The Array Game - Calculate

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The purpose of this game is for students to construct arrays and to describe them in words and numbers.

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Crocodile and Shark (F–3) - Calculate

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In this game students practise addition and subtraction of numbers from the face of a die, using multiple strategies.

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Space Race Game (Introducing Algorithmic Thinking) - Calculate

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Space Race is a simple board game that teachers can use to introduce the concept of algorithmic sequencing to students. The teaching points provided with the game assist teachers to introduce the use of an algorithm (a simple set of mathematical instructions) to describe the trajectory of an object across a grid plane from ...

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Measuring Mass - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is to encourage students to measure, order, compare and check the mass of a range of objects using hefting (holding something to test its mass) or formal units of measure.

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Today's Number - Calculate

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This is an open task as it can cater for the needs of many students and can be used over and over to build confidence in representing numbers in different ways. In this activity students have an opportunity to engage with a variety of number ranges and are able to demonstrate their understandings of those numbers in many ways.

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Guess My Shape or Object - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is to encourage and support students to describe two dimensional shapes and three dimensional objects according to their features or properties.

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Domino Bingo - Calculate

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In this game, students add single digit numbers and subitise domino dot patterns.

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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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Pattern Blocks - Calculate

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This activity uses pattern blocks to explore patterns and the relationship between numbers. Students use the blocks to create and describe other shapes and since the blocks are relational they can be used for other investigations. For example, turn the blocks into units – if the triangle is one what is the value of the hexagon?

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How Full Is a Bucket? - Calculate

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This team-based game challenges students to use metric units of volume and to make capacity estimates for various containers.

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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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Coin Toss - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is for students to conduct an experiment that involves chance.They will use the information they gather to represent their findings.

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