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Dot card talk 2

Find out ways to use dot cards as a way to justify and reason. This resource draws on students' use of multiplicative thinking and strategies before introducing a written task.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 2, Year 3
Audience	Teacher, Student
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Video
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Targeted teaching
Keywords	dot cards, number multiplication, number talk, arrays, repeated addition, partitioning, reasoning, understanding, fluency, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Multiplication and division
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M2N05 Multiply and divide by one-digit numbers using repeated addition, equal grouping, arrays, and partitioning to support a variety of calculation strategies AC9M3N04 Multiply and divide one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences, diagrams and arrays, and using a variety of calculation strategies
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	NSW Department of Education
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