B - Learning to use advanced counting to solve problems
This resource provides a list of links to explanations of barriers to students progress when learning to use advanced counting to solve problems.
About this resource
This resource provides a list of possible barriers to students progress when learning to use advanced counting to solve problems.
Focusing on:
- Applying advanced counting strategies to addition and subtraction problems.
- Counting on and back in ones from any number between 1 and 100.
B: Learning to use advanced counting to solve problems
Required materials
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- Learning to use: advanced counting to solve problems (.pdf)
Target group
Students in years 1–3
Focus
- Applying advanced counting strategies to addition and subtraction problems.
- Counting on and back in ones from any number between 1 and 100.
Teacher observation over a range of activities
The student may be able to solve addition and subtraction problems by counting on from one using materials or imaging. The student may have difficulty trusting the count, reverting to counting from one when solving a problem. For example, when solving 8 + 3, the student may hold up eight fingers but still count from one when joining the two sets.
When counting over the decades, the student often uses the wrong decade, for example, “38, 39, um, um, 60, 61.”
Possible barriers to the student’s progress
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