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reSolve: Authentic Problems: Grandma's Soup

Teacher guide reSolve: Authentic Problems: Grandma's Soup

TLF ID M024877

This sequence of four lessons focuses on counting large collections of objects and developing efficient counting strategies. Students explore the ambiguous nature of a 'handful' and investigate how different sized hands and different grabbing techniques will result in different quantities of macaroni. 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 special topic 'Authentic Problems'.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for the year 1 mathematics content descriptions about modelling, reading, writing and ordering numbers, number sequences and skip counting. Students are engaged in a counting investigation where they connect numerals and quantities and partition numbers in a variety of ways.
  • The resource is also valuable for supporting the Numeracy general capability. The unit provides multiple opportunities for students to model, represent, order and use numbers as they answer their inquiry question.
  • This resource is also of pedagogical value as it supports teachers in building an inquiry-focused learning environment with authentic application of mathematical skills and understandings. The unit uses a learning and teaching model with four phases: Discover, Devise, Develop and Defend. The unit aims to develop content knowledge as well as assisting students to understand the process of inquiry.
Year level

1

Topics Positive integers Counting Number lines Place value Inquiry-based learning Patterns Associativity Skip counting Subitising Numerical order Number words Grouping (Counting)
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Australian Government Department of Education and Training
  • Organization: Australian Government Department of Education and Training
  • Publisher
  • Name: Australian Academy of Science
  • Organization: Australian Academy of Science
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: https://www.science.org.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • 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.