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reSolve: Authentic Problems: Tea Party

Teacher guide reSolve: Authentic Problems: Tea Party

TLF ID M024881

This sequence of four lessons presents a purposeful context for counting using the context of planning a tea party. Students consider items required for a small party, draw and count the items and then extend this to a larger party for the whole class. 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 extremely valuable for the foundation year mathematics content descriptions about establishing the language and processes of counting, connecting number names and numerals, subitising small collections and comparing and ordering collections. Students use a range of different materials to model the authentic problem of how to cater for guests at a tea party. They use familiar counting sequences to solve familiar problems and when sharing their solutions, discuss the reasonableness of the answer in terms of counting.
  • The resource is also valuable for supporting the Numeracy general capability. The tea party context and inquiry provides multiple opportunities for students to connect and order number names, numerals and groups of objects using numbers up to two digits.
  • 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

F

Topics Counting frames Addition Positive integers Counting Sequences (Number patterns) Inquiry-based learning Cardinality Associativity Subitising Numerical order Number words
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • 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 2017. Unless otherwise indicated, this material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.