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Rows of oranges
In this Three-Act task, students are shown a video of someone peeling oranges and dividing them into segments. They then explore how many segments there will be when all the oranges have been peeled.
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- Year level
- Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Place value Addition and subtraction Multiplication and division Patterns and algebra
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Multiplicative strategies (P5) Additive strategies (P6) Number and place value (P3)
- Publisher
- Learning for Children
- Copyright
- © Kendra Lomax. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0.
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- array
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