In this learning activity, ‘Birthday Time’, students help Carla’s mum work out how many candles she needs for various birthday cakes. The activity focuses on adding several single digit numbers by looking for numbers that add to 10. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Hiding in the Swamp’, problems concerning swamphen involve finding the total of groups of the same number of objects and sharing objects evenly. Students can use their knowledge of addition and multiplication to solve related division problems. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
In this learning activity, ‘The Pigsty’, students help Jamal calculate how many planks he needs to build a fence around the pigsty. The problems involve combining equal groups to find a total. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Weka Wobble’, introduces the flightless New Zealand birds known as weka. Students work out how many more weka can be brought to Motiuti Reserve and record their addition and subtraction methods on a number line. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.