Numeracy activities

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Teaching and learning activities from the Numeracy Development Project books, focused on number strategy and knowledge. Each activity is linked to the NZC and the Number Framework.

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
The purpose of the activity is to practice addition basic facts

recall the basic addition facts

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity provides students with a fun, game context in which to practice their addition skills. It also introduces concepts of probability.

perform addition calculations using numbers 1-6

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This game allows students to practice their subtraction skills.

recall basic subtraction facts

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity the students play a card game to practise their addition and subtractions facts.

create and solve number problems using the basic operations of addition and subtraction.

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity encourages students to recall their basic addition and subtraction facts.

recall addition and subtraction facts for the numbers 0-9.

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
The purpose of this unit is to introduce the part-whole strategy of bridging to ten.

bridge to ten to solve number problems

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Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This game allows students to practise their multiplication skills, and reinforces the ‘array’ concept of multiplication.

perform multiplication calculations using numbers 1-6

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Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students are encouraged to view the multiplication grid in the same way that they would view a hundreds array and to consider how they will find an answer to multiplication problems by deriving from known facts, looking for groups and skip counting.

model multiplication facts on a multiplication grid

use the hundreds array to find groupings, known facts to solve multiplication facts

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Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students are encouraged to solve multiplication problems by deriving from known facts, looking for groupings and skip counting. Students are encouraged to explain and share their thinking.

model multiplication facts on a one hundred array.

use the hundreds array to find groupings, known facts to solve multiplication facts

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Level Three
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity we use a 1-100 grid to identify multiples of single digit numbers. In particular we are looking for patterns and how they could be used to identify multiples.
  • Identify multiples of single digit numbers.