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Authentic Context Integration in Early Number Teaching
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Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling M. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2019
This article presents an analysis of contextual tasks to support the development of counting in Foundation Year classrooms. The tasks allowed the students to engage in authentic and realistic number experiences on which to build their understandings of early number.
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Using Untouchables to Make Arithmetic Structures Touchable: The Case of the Associative Rule
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Khosroshahi, Leyla G.; Asghari, Amir H. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2016
There is a call for enabling students to use a range of efficient mental and written strategies when solving addition and subtraction problems. To do so, students should recognise numerical structures and be able to change a problem to an equivalent problem. The purpose of this article is to suggest an activity to facilitate such understanding in…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Addition, Subtraction, Problem Solving
Opening the Door on Triangular Numbers
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McMartin, Kimberley; McMaster, Heather – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2016
As an alternative to looking solely at linear functions, a three-lesson learning progression developed for Year 6 students that incorporates triangular numbers to develop children's algebraic thinking is described and evaluated.
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts