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Sum and product of integers inquiry
The prompt sets up a conjecture involving products and sums for the students to explore. The students have to understand the vocabulary of question and then can be guided through the inquiry. The resource includes the prompt, teacher notes, guided questions and extension prompts.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Multiplication and division Integers
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P8) Multiplicative strategies (P6, P7) Number and place value (P7)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- odd number even number shape mathematical investigation
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