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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 and backward number word sequences

  • Bucket count-on-and-back
  • The counting game
  • Hundred chart patterns
  • Colour it in
  • Before and after: figurative
  • Number line take-over
  • Bingo: The number before or after - figurative
  • Bundling
  • Zap: figurative
  • Using calculators to count

Activities to support learning in numeral identification

  • Teen number puzzle cards
  • Questioning the hundred chart
  • Collections
  • Flip and make
  • Swap me

Activities to support learning in Early Arithmetical Strategies

  • Rabbit ears: figurative
  • Build a tower
  • Race to 100
  • Subtraction teddies
  • Put in, take out
  • The beanstalk
  • Add two dice
  • Subtract two dice
  • Making 20
  • Windows: figurative
  • Posting counters
  • Three-dice toss
  • Order of combining: An investigation
  • Investigating fact families
  • Fishing addition

Activities to support learning in pattern and number structures

  • Friends of ten
  • Ten concentration Combos
  • Teddy tummies: addition
  • Speedy dice

Activities to support learning in multiplication and division

  • Units for two
  • Triangle teddies
  • Handprints
  • Groupies
  • Finding and calculating groups
  • What’s in a square?
  • Dice and grid game
  • Arrays: changing groups
  • Turning arrays
  • Array flash

Figurative Strategies

  • Students using figurative strategies
  • Teaching considerations
  • A note about count-by-ones strategies
  • 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
  • Activities to support multiplication and division
  • Three-minute lesson breakers
  • Blackline Masters

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