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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
  • Before and after: counting-on-and-back
  • Grocery line
  • Skip counting
  • Ten strips and hundred charts
  • Straw javelin
  • Zap counting-on-and-back
  • Using calculators to count: counting-on-and-back

Activities to support learning in numeral identification

  • Celebrity head
  • Make me big
  • Thumbs up
  • Number of the day
  • What can you say?
  • Guess my number
  • Collections: counting-on-and-back
  • Flip and make: counting-on-and-back

Activities to support learning in Early Arithmetical Strategies

  • 3 tens in a row
  • Number fact concentration
  • Doubles
  • Doubles plus one
  • Near doubles bingo
  • Deriving facts
  • Double or near double?
  • Finding known facts
  • Three-dice game
  • Applying known facts
  • Get your balance: Counting-on-and-back
  • Race to 200
  • How would you..?
  • How does knowing..?
  • Subtraction bingo
  • Five dice
  • Race to the pool
  • Sentence maker
  • Addition wheel
  • Balancing numbers
  • Trading game
  • Fact matching
  • Ghost busters
  • Domino duel
  • Outdoor bean bag target

Activities to support learning in pattern and number structure

  • Unit squares
  • Friends of twenty
  • Speedy dice: counting-on-and-back
  • How many ways? counting-on-and-back

Activities to support learning in multiplication and division

  • How many arrays?
  • Array match
  • Arrays in a row
  • Racing back
  • Fact family jigsaw
  • Share it out
  • Hundred chart multiples
  • Buzz game
  • Number line jumps
  • Rolling groups
  • Teddy tummies
  • Trucking teddies

Counting on-and-back Strategies

  • Students using counting-on-and-back 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
  • 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