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Teaching and learning activities for around five classroom mathematics sessions. Units include links to the NZC, specific learning outcomes, descriptions of sequenced teaching and learning activities, useful questions to use with students, a list of the resource materials required, and any copymasters needed.

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Quilts

Level Three
Geometry and Measurement
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In this unit students learn to estimate and measure the area of rectangles, recognise and describe transformations in geometric designs, and apply precise measurement skills and enlargement techniques to create a functional geometric design for a quilt.
  • Identify, describe, and demonstrate rotation, translation and reflection within simple designs.
  • Estimate and measure the areas of rectangles.
  • Accurately measure in centimetres.
  • Apply addition and multiplication strategies to problems involving centimetres and a measurement context.
  • Create an accurate...
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Perspective on Picasso

Level Three
Geometry and Measurement
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In this unit students develop a further understanding of two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional shapes through creating drawings and artworks that explore shapes from different viewpoints.
  • List the features of common three-dimensional shapes.
  • Recognise that the faces of 3D shapes are 2D plane shapes.
  • Explore and understand the defining features of a prism.
  • Draw (freehand) common 3D shapes from different viewpoints.
  • Represent different viewpoints of the constructions with drawings on...
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Words

Level Two
Statistics
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The purpose of this unit is to develop students’ understanding that texts have different language features, depending on their purpose. Students learn about words in texts by conducting a statistical investigation, and by using their data to answer the question they pose.
  • Suggest an investigative question.
  • Plan and carry out an investigation. (Collect, sort and display data, communicate findings based on data and draw conclusions.)
  • Sort words by category and justify their classification.
  • Create a pictograph and correctly name (word) categories.
  • Present...
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Fun and fitness

Level Two
Integrated
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The purpose of this unit is for students to design a PE/fitness game, use standard measures of length, and conduct a statistical investigation into the safety factors and the health benefits of their game.
  • Understand how running a distance contributes to fitness and wellbeing.
  • Create a personal benchmark for 1 metre and for 1 kilometre.
  • Accurately use three measuring devices to measure a distance of more than 3 metres.
  • Correctly record length measurements using abbreviations.
  • Understand how many metres...
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Honeycomb

Level Two
Geometry and Measurement
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In this unit students sort and explore two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometric shapes, identify and describe their distinguishing features and come to appreciate the efficiency of the tessellating hexagon in meeting the needs of honeybees.
  • Identify distinguishing features of 2D (plane) shapes using the language of sides and corners.
  • Identify distinguishing features of 3D shapes using the language of faces, edges, vertex/vertices.
  • Explore hexagons, recognising that they tessellate.
  • Make hollow prism shapes and describe their features.
  • Rese...
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Mailboxes

Level Two
Integrated
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In this unit students will research, design, make, and test a cardboard letterbox, applying their knowledge and understanding of a standard measure, centimetres. They will also undertake a statistical investigation into the use of both electronic and postal mail.
  • Use standard measures of length to investigate the sizes of items of letter mail.
  • Use standard measures of length to design and make a letterbox.
  • Record the design process, including using appropriate symbols and abbreviations to record length measurements.
  • Pose an investigative question, plan a...
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Picasso

Level Two
Geometry and Measurement
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This unit uses the context of Picasso's art to explore two and three-dimensional shapes, to recognise their features, and to develop appropriate language to discuss Picasso's and their own artworks.
  • Sort geometric blocks and explain their groupings.
  • Understand and use geometric language to describe the features of two-dimensional (plane) shapes.
  • Create an artwork using plane shapes.
  • Recognise how shape is an important feature of Picasso’s artworks.
  • Understand and describe the features of a cube.
  • Cre...
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Mapping relationships

Level Two
Number and Algebra
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The purpose of this unit of two lessons is to develop relational thinking through the exploration and expression of the relationship between two related number patterns.
  • Recognise relationships between two number sets.
  • Use a ‘mapping diagram’ to show a number relationship.
  • Understand the connection between the coordinate systems of maps and graphs.
  • Identify a situation in which there is a unique relationship between two data sets.
  • Transfer mapped values onto a graph (an...
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Dual patterns

Level Two
Number and Algebra
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This unit develops pattern-based thinking through the exploration of a pattern that has more than one attribute and more than one unit of repeat.
  • Create, describe and continue single-attribute and two-attribute repeating patterns with varying numbers of elements.
  • Identify and replace missing elements in a repeating pattern.
  • Identify, describe, and create composite patterns.
  • Identify the unit of repeat in a repeating pattern and apply known...
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Odd and even numbers

Level Two
Number and Algebra
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The purpose of this unit is to explore a pattern that is central to our number system: odd and even numbers.
  • Identify even and odd numbers.
  • Independently investigate, recognise and report on the patterns and characteristics of even numbers and of odd numbers.
  • State generalisations about the addition and subtraction of even numbers and of odd numbers.
  • Investigate and recognise the results of adding and...