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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

  • Zap zero
  • Maths tipping
  • Before and after
  • Numeral card caterpillars
  • Bingo: the number before and after
  • Floor walking
  • Wearable numeral cards
  • Numeral flip strip: perceptual

Activities to support learning in numeral identification

  • Number flowers
  • Pairs
  • Egg flip
  • Teen memory
  • Teen bingo
  • Sand tray numbers: perceptual
  • Racing to write: perceptual
  • Teen number puzzle cards

Activities to support learning in 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
  • Ten frame patterns
  • Making ten
  • Peggy combinations
  • Domino patterns
  • Apple turnovers
  • Diffy towers
  • Combining collections: an investigation

Activities to support learning in Early Arithmetical Strategies

  • Visualising towers
  • Combining collections
  • Windows
  • Blocks on a bowl
  • Get your balance

Activities to support learning in pattern and number structure

  • Rabbit ears
  • Speedy dominoes
  • Make my pattern
  • Matching patterns
  • Name and identify my pattern
  • The pattern before or after
  • Combining dot patterns
  • Missing dots

Activities to support learning in multiplication and division

  • Finding equal groups
  • Trains
  • Making groups
  • Twos
  • Mail sort
  • Canisters
  • Rhythmic counting
  • Body percussion
  • Percussion instruments

Perceptual Strategies

  • Students using perceptual 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