Multiplicative thinking (8 lessons)

In this sequence of 8 lessons, students learn to count objects by skip counting, solve grouping and sharing problems, and explain thinking using pictures, numbers, and words.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 1
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords partitioning, collections, equal chares, equal groups, summative assessment

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Number
Topics Multiplication and division
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M1N06
Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving equal sharing and grouping; represent the situations with diagrams, physical and virtual materials, and use calculation strategies to solve the problem

AC9M1N05

Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive situations, including simple money transactions; represent the situations with diagrams, physical and virtual materials, and use calculation strategies to solve the problem


Numeracy progression Counting processes (P6)
Additive strategies (P6)
Multiplicative strategies (P2)
Understanding money (P3)

Copyright details

Organisation

Victoria State Government Department of Education

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