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Quick question for everyone here: when you were at school, did you like mathematics? Be honest — I’ll go first
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A grade 5/6 class reflecting/flipping shapes on the Cartesian Plane and making generalisations.
In the ACARA V9 curriculum, the transformations of coordinates and shapes isn’t usually explored until year 7. However, watch what happens when children are given the correct tool. This is the FIRST time children can present a concrete Cartesian…Read More
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A grade 5/6 class reflecting/flipping shapes on the Cartesian Plane and making generalisations.
In the ACARA V9 curriculum, the transformations of coordinates and shapes isn’t usually explored until year 7. However, watch what happens when children are given the correct tool. This is the FIRST time children can present a concrete Cartesian…Read More
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A grade F/1 class explored the picture book called “Rosie’s Walk”. We turned this into a marvellous maths adventure which encouraged PLAY, mathematical reasoning, spatial reasoning, creativity, geometry and number skills. This sequence will help you target multiple strands in the curriculum simultaneously which makes this problem-based task a rich…Read More
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Genovieve Grouios
Grade 1 students working with fractions as an operator!Check out these amazing students from Woodville Primary school.
Here, they were exploring how to find one-half and one-quarter of collections.
Pay attention to the process on the Linear Abacus:For problem 1 in the video: they had to find ½ of 18.
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Genovieve Grouios
Using the Linear Abacus as a Ruler!The beauty of the Linear Abacus is that it helps children explore concepts in Number, Algebra AND Measurement.
In this activity students in grades 3/4 used the Linear Abacus as an informal tool to measure ancient units such as the span, the cubit and the foot. They understood that…Read More
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Genovieve Grouios
Using Play in the Maths ClassroomCheck out the students from Woodville Primary solve problems from our Additive Thinking Flashcards.
These students could identify the type of problem being explored and could even describe what the numerals in a number sentence represented.
In this task, children were finding the…Read More
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Jonathan Lim October 13, 2024
Place value intervention
To help students in Grade 1 that have been struggling with place value. Gen and I have done a place value intervention during a recent numeracy conference.It involved the use of the linear abacus to show groups of 10 and groups of 1. Students were required to first make the number…Read More
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Jimi Connal September 20, 2024
Warm Up Idea
Recently I have been using a quick number drill as a warm up with a year 3 and 4 grade. The photo shows the students working on questions like. If I know 4 x 6 = ?, then I know…
Students complete this on a white board and use the Linear Abacus to make groups of 6 by folding 4 times. Students…Read More
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Nicole Richards September 02, 2024.
Numeracy ConferencesAn enabling Foundation/Prep student participated in a numeracy conference with numbers up to 20.
They begun by counting a collection of teddies to observe if the student would count by organising items into counted and uncounted piles. They required prompting to do so. They then had…Read More![]()
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Genovieve Grouios September 01, 2024
Check out how students in 3/4 explore quotative division (Woodville Primary)In this activity children looked at problems such as 56÷8 and 36÷12.
Using the Linear Abacus they could transfer their thinking to an open number line to show how many 8’s are in 56 and how many 12’s are in 36 respe…Read More
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Genovieve Grouios August 25, 2024
Here is an example to help children move from additive to multiplicative thinking: suitable for levels 3-6.Photo 1 is a model of 4 groups of 6
This uses additive thinking.Groups of model- this links to additive thinking.
I can use a descriptive calculation to explain what I see on the model and the…Read More![]()
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Tram Nguyen September 01 2024
Teaching students to split the product when multiplying numbers
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24 x 121st: Partition the number the 24
There are 2 tens which we will represent as 20 and 4 ones.2nd: Partition the 12
There are1 ten which we will represent as 10 and 2 ones.3rd: Multiply the numbers…Read More
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