Description
A must have for all primary teachers who use calculators in the teaching of mathematics, this book contains many calculator games and activities, detailed notes on how to use a calculator, a review of the latest research on using calculators, a calculators skills checklist and a comprehensive section on sensible calculator use — including techniques for monitoring and checking calculations.
Calculators in Classrooms also provides teachers with ideas and guidelines along with games and activities for using calculators sensibly to teach mathematics.
| Calculators in Classrooms Book | |
| AC Links | Mathematics concept |
| Various, including: | Sort, describe and name familiar 2D shapes and 3D objects. |
| Recognise and classify 2D shapes and 3D objects. | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA030 | Give and follow directions. |
| Interpret simple maps. | |
| Create and interpret simple grid maps. | |
| Use simple scales, legends and directions to interpret information contained in basic maps. | |
| Use a grid reference system. Use directional language. | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | Identify and describe half and quarter turns. |
| Yr 3: ACMNA056 | Describe 2D shapes that result from combining common shapes. |
| Yr 3: ACMNA057 | Describe translations, reflections and rotations of two-dimensional shapes Identify line and rotational symmetries. |
| Yr 4: ACMNA076 | Introduce the Cartesian coordinate system using all four quadrants |
| Yr 5: ACMNA100 | Problem Solving and Reasoning |
| Yr 6: ACMNA123 | |
| Yr 6: ACMNA128 | Efficient and fluent use of the four operations, including application to fractions or decimal numbers |
| Yr F: ACMNA001 | |
| Yr 1: ACMNA012 | |
| extending to larger numbers | Naming the number before or after a given number without counting from one |
| Yr 1: ACMNA013 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA027 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA052 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA072 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA105 | Compare and order numbers within a given range |
| Reasoning | Investigating matchstick numbers: creating numbers that use a given quantity of matchsticks |
| Reasoning | Investigating matchstick numbers: creating numbers with larger values by moving matchsticks |
| Reasoning | Investigating binary codes for lighting up calculator displays |
| Yr 1: ACMNA013 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA027 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA052 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA072 | Connecting representations of numbers in numeral and word forms (any range from 2-digit and beyond) |
| Yr 1: ACMNA012 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA026 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA060 | Generating number sequences through repeated addition or subtraction |
| Yr 4: ACMNA081 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA073 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA107 | Generating number sequences through repeated multiplication or division, including by powers of 10 |
| Yr 1: ACMNA018 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA035 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA060 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA074 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA098 | Investigating number patterns and sequences generated by repeated addition or subtraction (multiples) |
| Yr 3: ACMNA060 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA074 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA098 | |
| with reasoning | Investigating the relationships between two number sequences generated by repeated addition or subtraction (e.g. find the secondary difference or a common multiple) |
| Yr 3: ACMNA053 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA073 | Understanding the place value of digits within a number: using addition or subtraction to change digits one by one |
| Yr 3: ACMNA053 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA073 | Understanding the place value of digits within a number: identifying the value of a given digit within a larger number |
| Addition and subtraction using a calculator | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA073 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA079 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA104 | |
| The multiplicative relationship between places (place value): each place is worth 10 times more than that to its right. | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA073 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA291 | |
| Yr 6: ACMNA123 | Computation and place value: Identifying the operations used to transform one number into another (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) |
| Yr 4: ACMNA071 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA099 | Using number sense (estimation), rounding and knowledge of the properties of numbers to check answers to calculations |
| Various, including: | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA076 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA291 | |
| Yr 6: ACMNA123 | |
| with reasoning | Use trial and adjust strategies, estimation and reasoning to transform a number into a target number using multiplication (or division), or to find the missing number in a maths expression |
| Yr 5: ACMNA105 | |
| Yr 6: ACMNA125 | Locate decimal numbers or fractions on a number line. |
| Yr 4: ACMNA079 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA105 | Converting proper fractions to decimals with the aid of a calculator and placing decimals on a number line. |
| Yr 6: ACMNA133 | Investigating patterns formed when multiplying larger numbers, or when adjusting factors in systematic ways |
| Yr 2: ACMNA030 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | |
| with reasoning | Adding or subtracting strings of numbers on order to reach a given total |
| Yr 2: ACMNA030 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | |
| with reasoning and extension to decimals | Identifying sets of numbers with a given sum, including decimal numbers |
| Yr 4: ACMNA076 | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA100 | |
| with reasoning | Partitioning two-digit numbers |
| Multiplying one and two-digit numbers and investigating products | |
| Yr 5: ACMNA291 | |
| Yr 6: ACMNA123 | |
| with reasoning | Using the four operations to transform a given number into a target number, within given rules |
| Yr 7: ACMNA151 | Using efficient methods of calculating using the properties of and relationships between the four operations |
| Yr 6: ACMNA133 | |
| Yr 7: ACMNA149 | Investigating number patterns formed by repeated multiplication (powers) |
| Yr 2: ACMNA030 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | |
| with reasoning | Subtracting three-digit numbers and investigating patterns in results |
| Yr 5: ACMNA100 | |
| Yr 6: ACMNA123 | |
| with reasoning | Using knowledge of multiplication and place value to generate the largest/smallest product using a given set of numbers |
