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  • DENS Introduction
  • Emergent Strategies
  • Perceptual Strategies
  • Figurative Strategies
  • Counting-on-and-back Strategies

Index of learning activities

 

 

Activities to support learning in forward & backward number word sequences

  • Counting patterns
  • Counting with books and stories
  • Handful of teddies
  • Paper cup drop
  • Paperclip cards
  • Fences
  • Before, after or between?
  • Hang it on the line
  • Sandwich boards
  • The price is right (higher/lower)
  • Last number: emergent
  • Munching tennis balls
  • Numeral flip strip: emergent
  • More, fewer, the same?

Activities to support learning in numeral identification

  • Number puzzles
  • Emergent concentration
  • Posting blocks
  • Take a numeral
  • Sand tray numbers
  • Racing to write

Activities to support learning in counting as a problem solving process - Early Arithmetical Strategies

  • Daily counting: How many people are here today?
  • Daily counting: Which collection has...?
  • Daily counting: What do you think?
  • Daily counting: Counting circles
  • Developing one-to-one
  • Feather drop
  • Egg carton drop
  • Collect me
  • Egg game
  • I feel
  • Mother and babies
  • Beehive
  • Ten pegs
  • Ten frames
  • Ten strips
  • Teddy bear race
  • Cupcake papers
  • Candle holders
  • The number train
  • Make a zoo
  • Flowers in a vase
  • Colourful clowns
  • Popstick designs
  • Investigating collections
  • A counting investigation
  • Tower battles
  • What's in the square
  • Pick up chips
  • Count and classify

Activities to support learning in pattern and number structure

  • Learning about dice patterns - 1
  • Learning about dice patterns - 2
  • Look and say
  • Look and snap
  • Feel and find
  • Subitise snap
  • Make a pattern

Emergent Strategies

  • Students Using Emergent Strategies
  • Teaching Considerations
  • Assessment Opportunities
  • Index of Learning Activities
  • Activities to Support Forward and Backward Number Word Sequences
  • Activities to Support Numeral Identification
  • Activities to Support Early Arithmetical Strategies
  • Activities to Support Pattern and Number Structure
  • Three-minute Lesson Breakers
  • Blackline Masters

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  • DENS Introduction
  • Emergent Strategies
  • Perceptual Strategies
  • Figurative Strategies
  • Counting-on-and-back Strategies