A - Learning to use counting from one to solve problems
This resource is designed to help students count from one to solve problems.
About this resource
This resource helps teachers provide maths learning experiences that enable students to build on their existing proficiencies, interests, and experiences.
A: Learning to use counting from one to solve problems
Required materials
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- ALiM Resource A (.pdf)
Target group: Students in years 1–3
Focus:
- applying counting-from-one strategies to addition and subtraction problems
- recognising patterns to 10
- saying forward and backward number sequences.
Teacher observation over a range of activities
The student may be able to count a set of objects to 10 by one-to-one matching but may not join or separate sets. They can rote-count forwards and backwards to 10, but may have difficulty saying the sequence of the teen numbers when counting forwards and backwards to 20. The student may recognise some patterns up to 5 (finger patterns and dice patterns) but not patterns greater than 5 (finger patterns, tens frame patterns, groupings of “five and” patterns).
Possible barriers to the student’s progress
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