Description
Counters in the Classroom ( Colour | 48 pages )
Counters are one of the simplest, cheapest and most versatile manipulatives in the mathematics classroom.
This book shows how they may be used at different year levels to develop a range of mathematical concepts across the primary school years.
Topics:
• Counting
• Sorting and Classifying.
• The four operations: + – , x and ÷
• Problems Solving and Reasoning
• Spatial Problem Solving
• Probability and Statistics
• Solving Word Problems
| Counters in the Classroom | |
| Australian Curriculum Links | Concept |
| F: ACMNA001 | |
| F: ACMNA002 | |
| F: ACMNA003 | |
| F: ACMNA289 | Counting |
| Connect number names, numerals and quantities | |
| Subitising | |
| Compare collections | |
| F: ACMNA004 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA031 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA032 | |
| Yr4: ACMNA083 | Model addition, sharing |
| Represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays. | |
| Represent division as grouping into equal sets | |
| Number sentences addition and subtraction | |
| F: ACMNA005 | |
| Yr 1: ACMNA018 | Sort, classify, copy, continue, create patterns |
| Investigate and describe … patterns with objects | |
| Yr2: ACMNA033 | Recognise and interpret common uses of halves, quarters and eighths of … collections |
| Yr3: ACMSP069 | Collect data, organise into categories and create …, picture graphs and simple column graphs |
| Yr4: ACMSP094 | |
| Yr5: ACMSP116 | |
| Yr5: ACMSP117 | |
| Yr6: ACMSP144 | |
| Yr6: ACMSP145 | Probability |
