1. NZ Maths
  2. Supporting professional practice
  3. Curriculum elaborations
  4. National Standards Illustrations
  5. Year 2
  6. Tiled Photo Frames: Year 2

Illustrating the Mathematics Standards

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Tiled Photo Frames: Illustrating the year 2 standard

The following examples of student work illustrate achievement at the mathematics standards for year 2.
 

The task used in this illustration was part of a whole-school focus on Algebra and allowed students to explore sequential patterning for photo frames.

The task relates to achievement objectives for Number and Algebra from the mathematics and statistics learning area in The New Zealand Curriculum.

The Task

Tiled Photo Frames

Use tiles and a photo-frame template to design a pattern for a photo frame.
Explain your pattern.

Some features of students’ work used to make judgments in relation to the mathematics standards are described below. There is also an illustration of the year 1 standard and an illustration of the year 3 standard for this task.

New Zealand Curriculum: Level 1 National Standards: After two years at school
In solving problems and modelling situations, students will:
Number and Algebra
  • use a range of counting, [and] grouping, and equal-sharing strategies with whole numbers and fractions (number strategies)
  • create and continue sequential patterns (patterns and relationships)
Number and Algebra
  • apply counting-on, counting-back, skip-counting, and simple grouping strategies to combine or partition whole numbers
  • create and continue sequential patterns by identifying the unit of repeat

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PDF of this task and Illustrations of the year 1, 2 and 3 standards (1.41MB)