Description
Use dominoes to achieve various curriculum outcomes. Includes teacher ideas, reproducible pages, background material and answers.
Can be used in conjunction with various sets of dominoes including double 6 and double 9 sets.
Suitable for all primary years.
Curriculum Links:
| AC Links | Mathematics concept |
| Yr F: ACMNA002 | Matching dot patterns and/or numerals for numbers 1-6. |
| Yr F: ACMNA004 | Also: finding combinations of 2 collections with common sums. |
| Yr 1: ACMNA015 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA081 | Finding the number of possible combinations of any 2 of the numbers in a given range. Finding the combined sum of all possible combinations by looking for patterns. |
| Yr 4: ACMSP096 | |
| plus reasoning | |
| Yr 2: ACMMG037 | Tesselating rectangles to fill an area of a set size and shape. |
| plus reasoning | “Cram” additionally involves the use of strategy to ensure that the desired player places the last piece on the grid. |
| Yr F: ACMNA002 | Matching identical dot patterns for numbers 0-6. Applying logic to determine what and why patterns exist when dominoes are arranged in certain ways. |
| plus reasoning | |
| Yr 2: ACMSP049 | Sorting pairs of numbers into categories: odd/even numbers, odd/even sums or differences. Identify a rule used to sort dominoes. |
| Yr 3: ACMNA051 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA071 | |
| Yr 1: ACMNA015 | Finding the missing combination from a set of all possible combinations of any 2 numbers in the range 0-6. |
| Yr 2: ACMNA035 | |
| plus reasoning | |
| Various, including: | Generating and interpreting descriptions of number properties in order to identify a specific domino (e.g. odd/even, more/less than, properties of sums and products etc). |
| Yr 1: ACMNA015 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA051 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA071 | |
| Yr 4: ACMNA075 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA035 | Identify the next element in a number pattern. |
| Yr 3: ACMNA060 | |
| Yr F: ACMNA289 | Compare and equalise two numbers in the range 0-6 using concrete materials. |
| Yr 1: ACMNA014 | Apply places to digits in order to create two two-digit numbers with the largest difference. |
| Yr 2: ACMNA028 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA030 | |
| Yr 2: ACMNA030 | Add strings of numbers to reach a given total. Generate all possibilities. Generate strings which have certain properties, e.g. length (number of addends). |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | |
| plus reasoning | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA051 | Adding two numbers in range 1-6 and determining properties (odd/even). |
| Yr 4: ACMNA071 | |
| Yr 1: ACMNA015 | Adding two numbers in the range 1-6. Graphing to determine frequency of totals. |
| Yr 1: ACMSP263 | |
| plus reasoning | |
| Yr 1: ACMNA014 | Numerals are allocated to places in order to create the largest 2-digit number. |
| Yr 1: ACMNA013 | Using two numerals to create two-digit numbers. Ordering two-digit numbers from smallest to largest. |
| Yr 1: ACMNA014 | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | Creating a sum of three two-digit numbers closest to a given total. |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | Adding and subtracting two-digit numbers. |
| Yr 2: ACMNA029 | Partitioning small numbers: identifying the two addends used to generate specific totals. |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | Partitioning larger numbers: identifying combinations of numbers which add to a given two-digit total. |
| Yr 1: ACMNA030 | Adding strings of one-digit numbers in order to create a given total (including requirements to use a set number of addends and/or use some addends twice). |
| Yr 3: ACMNA055 | |
| plus reasoning | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA060 | Matching dot patterns for numbers 1-6 in order to create geometric shapes with sets of domino tiles. Investigating number patterns. |
| plus reasoning | |
| Yr 3: ACMNA058 | Ordering proper fractions from smallest to largest. |
| Yr F: ACMNA002 | Adding two digits in the range 1-6. Counting out items (up to 12). |
| Yr 1: ACMNA015 |
