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reSolve: Number: One is a Snail

Teacher guide reSolve: Number: One is a Snail

TLF ID M021819

This sequence of lessons explores counting on strategies and early addition skills. Students represent numbers using animals with different numbers of legs and explore how one number can be represented in multiple ways. They also explore the concept of efficiency when comparing various representations. Students are then asked to represent teen numbers, developing the concepts of unitising and place value. Each lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, sample answers, discussion points and student resources. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Maths by Inquiry program.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for supporting the Number and place value substrand of foundation year mathematics. As students explore different ways of representing numbers and counting, the lesson is of particular value to the content descriptions about understanding of the language and processes of counting, connecting number names, numerals and quantities.
  • The resource is also valuable for supporting the Numeracy general capability. The lesson provides multiple opportunities for students to connect and order number names, numerals and groups of objects using numbers up to two digits.
Year level

F

Topics Positive integers Counting Sequences (Number patterns) Cardinality Numerical order Number words
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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  • Name: Education Services Australia
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  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
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  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Australian Government Department of Education and Training
  • Organization: Australian Government Department of Education and Training
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  • Name: Australian Academy of Science
  • Organization: Australian Academy of Science
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  • URL: https://www.science.org.au/
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
Rights
  • © Australian Government Department of Education and Training 2018. Unless otherwise indicated, this material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.