• Students, working in groups, find out and record the number of different ways to get dressed, given four different coloured shirts and three different coloured hats.
Using this example, teachers could assess students’ ability to: - illustrate and talk about relationships (A1); - devise and use problem-solving strategies to explore situations mathematically (MP1); - use their own language … and diagrams to explain mathematical ideas (MP1).
• Students write a number sentence for a story. For example, Genna collected 4 shells from one place on the beach and 2 shells from another place. She has 6 shells altogether.
Using this example, teachers could assess students’ ability to: - write number sentences, using = , from story contexts (A1); - make up, tell, and record number stories, up to 9, about given objects and sequence pictures (N1).
Sample Development Band Activities
• Students arrange and re-arrange a number of objects to show different ways of representing the number. They read and record each arrangement and explain the result.
• Students make a chart showing the relationships they have sorted from a set of picture cards.
• Students make a number story book and share their entries with others. An entry might be: Mum had three potatoes and Dad had seven. 7+3=10. Dad ate more than Mum. He had 4 more. 7 is 4 more than 3.
• Students explore, record, and describe a variety of number patterns, for example, by using a hundreds board.