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First, then, now
This guide provides guidance and prompts for addition and subtraction. It also introduces properties of shapes using concrete materials including pattern blocks and tangrams.
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| Year level(s) | Foundation |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | tangrams, counting, spatial reasoning, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Geometry |
| Topics | Addition and subtraction, Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA004
Represent practical situations to model addition and sharing
ACMMG010
Describe position and movement |
| National numeracy learning progression |
Additive strategies
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AdS5, AdS4
Understanding geometric properties - UGP1, UGP2 |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | White Rose Maths |
| Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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