Week
Six
Number sense, numeration &
mental computation, focusing on place value
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Big Ideas
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Number
Knowledge
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Formal ideas related to numeration and place value, and
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Informal
ideas that we call number sense.
Mental Computation:
1.
have open tasks;
2.
work with quantities NOT symbols e.g., 22+20
becomes: “double 2 tens
and add 2 more
3.
use their own language;
The encouragement of mental computation and not always using the
calculator is a main focus when introducing and using the calculator. However
there is a time and a place for the calculator and teacher needs to work with
the calculator as tool to further extend mathematics while encouraging
individual thinking strategies.
Number Place value and the importance of 0 and placement of numbers has
high importance although this needs to stem off when students are competent
in counting.
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Demonstrate concept skills and strategies
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The Concept of place value is where the number sits in the digit and
where that number sits on the number line. The skills for working with place
value help guide addition, subtraction, multiplication and division while
being able to go up and down and expand the number on the number line.
Thinking strategies for place value and addition is putting a number on the
number line able to do addition on the place value by jumping up the number
on the line. Showing students clearly as well as reminding students the main points of place value such as the imagine below:
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Demonstrate
Language model
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Demonstrate/ describe teaching strategies
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Place value games are a very good resource for teachers to find out
what students are thinking and how much they understand of our number system.
Using trading games that have rules about the trading gives students a fun
game where they are learning about place value. For young students the game
is to be introduced with a small sized collections such as three yellows
equals one blue and then move onto base ten value (Reys, 2012).
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Describe misconception
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Oral counting or rote recitation of counting up to and beyond ten can
be done by some students and this can be taken as they understand the place
value. This is not so as in most cases they have a confusion or
misunderstanding from wrong use or lack of experience of materials with
trading. With the student the teacher needs to go back to counting on a
number line focusing on where numbers sit on the line (Reys, 2012).
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ACARA
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(Australian Curriculum and
Assessment Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2014)
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Resources and ideas
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This game goes from simple to hard, starting with small numbers and
using their tenths, hundreds and ones forms. Giving students a change to have
fun while gaining an understanding on the units ("BBC - KS1 Bitesize Maths - Safari
Units", 2016).
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Concise synthesis textbook
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Characteristics of Hindu- Arabic numeration system:
1,place value
2, Base ten
3, Use of Zero
4, Additive property
Natural of place value can be demonstrated by
-Modelling ungrouped and regrouped
-Modelling proportional and nonproportional
-Grouping and trading
Calculators is a means to both support and extend students
mathematical experience’s although this means teachers are to help students
understand how to use this technology appropriately. This comes with students
understanding that calculators don’t think and that the student is to do all
the thinking. This also means students need to understand that using a
calculator is not always the fastest way for doing a sum. Mental computation
is used with building on thinking strategies used to develop basic facts
making a need for students to understand the importance of mental computation
and that teachers need to encourage it (Reys, 2012).
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References
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Australian Curriculum and
Assessment Reporting Authority. (2014). Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum:
Language, Language for Interaction (ACELA1428). Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/english/Curriculum/F10?y=F&y=7&y=8&y=9&y=10&s=LA&s=LT&s=LY&layout=1
BBC - KS1 Bitesize Maths - Safari Units : Fullscreen. (2016). Bbc.co.uk.
Retrieved 29 May 2016, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/place_value/play/popup.shtml
Reys, R. (2012). Helping students learn mathematics (pp.
139-163). Milton, QLD: WILEY.
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Sunday, 29 May 2016
Week Six Number sense, numeration & mental computation, focusing on place value
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