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Dot card talk 4

This video shows how to use dot formations on ten frames to explore quantities and mental strategies for justifying totals.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1, Year 2
Audience	Teacher, Student
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Video
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Targeted teaching
Keywords	ten frames, number, addition, reasoning, understanding, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Place value, Addition and subtraction
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1N04 Add and subtract numbers within 20, using physical and virtual materials, part-part-whole knowledge to 10 and a variety of calculation strategies AC9M2N04 Add and subtract one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences and solve using part-part-whole reasoning and a variety of calculation strategies
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P6) Number and place value (P3)
Copyright details
Organisation	NSW Department of Education
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