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reSolve: Skip Counting: How Many Birds?
This lesson explores counting large groups and building skip-counting strategies. Students use their own strategies to work out how many birds are in a picture. They are then encouraged to consider efficient counting strategies and to recount the collection by grouping birds and using skip-counting strategies. The lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, sample answers, discussion points, extension activities and student resources such as handouts. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry program.
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Year level(s) | Year 1 |
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Audience | Teacher |
Purpose | Teaching resource |
Format | Downloadable resources |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation |
Keywords | positive, skip counting, counting, integers |
Curriculum alignment |
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Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Number, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
Topics | Operating with number |
AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA012
Develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero
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National numeracy learning progression |
Quantifying numbers
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QuN2
Number patterns and algebraic thinking - NPA1 |
Copyright details |
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Organisation | reSolve Maths by Inquiry |
Copyright | © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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