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Knowledge Group 1

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Planning notes

Level/Framework stage/Group: AC/EA

Duration/Date: 2 weeks

Focus Achievement Objectives
NA3-2: Know basic multiplication and division facts.
NA2-4: Know how many ones, tens, and hundreds are in whole numbers to at least 1000.
NA2-5: Know simple fractions in everyday use.
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Fraction Benchmarks

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Units of Work
In this unit students develop important reference points or benchmarks for zero, one half and one. They use these benchmarks to help compare the relative sizes of fractions, through estimating, ordering and placing fractions on a number line.
  • State which of two fractions is larger.
  • Explain why a fraction is close to 0, 1/2 or 1.
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Fraction circles

Level Three
Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Ordering unit fractions (exercises 1 and 2)
  • Ordering non-unit fractions (exercises 3 to 5)
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Paper-folding Fractions

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
This activities is for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties

find fractions using paper folding

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Rounding: closest to

Level Two
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
This exercise is for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.

round to the nearest ten or hundred

use the sign that means “approximately equals”

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Money Matters

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Units of Work
In this unit, students explore the place value system through engaging with a variety of money contexts including trading ($1, $10, and $100 notes) and extended trades and operations into using thousands, millions, and billions of dollars.
  • Create groupings of tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands.
  • Read and write large whole number money amounts up to the value of 100 trillion.
  • Make sensible estimates for sums that are greater than / less than $10, $100, and $1000.
  • Find the sum of collections of $1, $10, $100, $1000, and $10...
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Cards to 24

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students use a deck of cards (or create their own set of cards with numbers on) to play a version of the 24 game. Students will use four cards and combinations of the four arithmetic operations to try to make a total of 24.

use the four arithmetic operations to make number sentences, which total 24.

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Tennis Ball Multiplication

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
The purpose of this activity is for students to practice their multiplication basic facts

recall the multiplication basic facts.

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Roughly how many?

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity we look at cubes which have been roughly sorted into arrays and decide about how many there are. We use our knowledge of multiplication facts to estimate the number of cubes.

use arrays to solve estimation problems

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