parts. TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.4 Money – Coins ACMNA017 Recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value Compare and sort coins according to attributes Which coins do you recognise? Observe students as they play the Coin dice roll. This will give information about the recognition of coins, as well as whether or not students understand the value of each coin. As a transition activity, the teacher can observe students as they place the coins in order of value. Investigate different ways to represent 50c using one coin, two coins, three coins , four coins and five coins. Early FISH Kit Collection of coins – Australian and other countries Crayons and paper Sorting circles or draw chalk circles Coins on whiteboard: – BLM TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.5 Fractions – Half ACMNA016 Recognise and Describe one half As one of two equal Parts of a whole Identifying halves Folding a square activity Observe students as they attempt to explain their reasoning. Does the term half refer to two parts of equal size? If a person said “I want the biggest half” what do you think that means? Is this possible? Early FISH Kit Paper squares and circles Pens Scissors TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.6 Calendars 2 ACMMG021 Describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours. Naming days of the week Exploring a calendar – Students construct a calendar for the current month including days of the week and the dates starting on the appropriate day. Locate today’s day and date on the classroom calendar, and state the day and date one week before and after today’s date. Numbering Knuckles: Make two fists with thumbs touching. Name the knuckles and the valleys with the months of the year in sequence. The high knuckle months have 31 days and the low valley months have less that 30. Source: Linthrone & Serenc. 2008. Jigsaw Maths Level 3 Teacher Calendar – Grid, months, days of week, numbers 1-31, calendar vocabulary. Current classroom calendar and an alternate calendar using a different configuration of days i.e. week starting with Monday; Initials for days of the week.
Resource Book. Firefly Press: Buderim TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.7 Grid Directions ACMMG022 Give and follow directions to familiar locations. Giving and receiving directions to unfamiliar places. Following Directions Activity Throughout the activity process, teachers observe the students ability to follow and give directions. Use anecdotal notes and observations to record student’s ability to give and follow directions using language of position and direction. Pose the problem: I took four steps and finished near the desk. Where might I have started? Direction flashcards 5x5 floor grid or make grid on floor using masking tape. Arrows Laminated pictures for grid Grid pictures - animals Grid pictures - shapes A3 5x5 grid with pictures Props – chair, skipping rope, blocks TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.8 Time to half an hour ACMMG020 Tell time to the half-hour Time can be measured in half-hour blocks. Make a six column chart with hourly intervals. Students each of the hour intervals on their clocks. A Length of Time: Ask students to think of different activities they might do in the day. Which might you do in the morning, afternoon or night? Ask them to draw a picture of different things, one in each square of what they do in a day and to include a clock showing what time they might begin it. Then for each one cut a piece of streamer to show how long the activity might take and stick the streamer on the bottom of the picture. The sense is that the longer the activity, Problem – show the students a clock with only an hour hand. Say: I have a friend who has a clock – but it only has the hour hand. She has to take her dog to the vet at 2.30 p.m. How will she know when it is time to go? Class clock – drag and move hands to change time: Individual clocks: BLM from Ideal resources Numbers to 12 Large circle, hoop, or draw a circle with chalk. Draw 12 marks to assist number placement arrows for large clock Online stopwatch:
the longer the streamer, as students gain a sense of the relative duration of events. Source: Downton, Knight, Clarke, Lewis. 2006. Mathematics Assessment for learning. ACU: Fitzroy. p.111. TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.9 Outcomes of events ACMSP024 Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’. Possible outcomes of chance events Language of chance – tell students some scenarios and ask them to choose the flashcard that best describes the likelihood of the event happening. The Daily Routine activity in Variations and Extensions could be used as an assessment piece with students drawing an example of something they would do, might do, and would not do in a day. Observe students as they express their reasoning about the chance of events happening. Someone asked the teacher a question and she replied “maybe”. What might the question have been? • Early FISH Kit • Chance Flashards--‐will happen, might happen, will not happen • Chance--‐pictures and scenerioes (photos of students) TOPIC CONTENT DESCRIPTOR KEY IDEA Pre-ASSESS ASSESSMENT INVESTIGATION STUDENT JOURNAL RESOURCES 1.2.10 Birthday Data ACMSP263 Choose simple Questions and Gather responses ACMSP262 Represent data with objects and Drawings where One object or Drawing represents One data value. Justifying of data Gather birthday data – Gather suggestions of ideas for gathering the information and how to represent it. The transition activity asking students questions about the data could be used as an assessment piece with students describing the data they can get from the three different modes – smarties on the birthday cakes, table and graph. Conduct class surveys using the topics such as those suggested in Variations and Extensions. • Early FISH Kit • Birthday cake for each month enlarged to A3 • Birthday grid for graphing enlarged to A3 • Paper circles small • Counters