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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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Target Practice

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
The aim of this activity is to improve develop students' recall of the basic addition facts.

identify possible addends when given a number.

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Clap, Pat, Click

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity is to encourage students to skip count to help them find the answer to problems involving equal groups. It is designed to help students make the link between ‘whisper’ counting with body percussion and solving multiplication facts.

skip count to solve problems involving equal groups

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Buttons and Frames

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity is to allow students to explore all the combinations to ten. These are necessary facts to come to know as they are used as a base to derive other facts from. For example 8 + 4 = . I know 8 + 2 = 10 there’s 2 more so it’s 12

name the combinations to 10.

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Buttons to Ten

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students explore all the combinations to ten. These are necessary facts to come to know as they are used as a base to derive other facts from. For example 8 + 4 = . I know 8 + 2 = 10 there’s 2 more so it’s 12

name the combinations to 10.

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Go Fish 10

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity encourages students to learn the addition facts of ten.
  • Identify the addition facts for ten.
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Jumping Beans

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity explores how numbers relate to ten. It also encourages the visualisation or imaging of numbers to ten.
  • Visualise numbers up to ten using ten frames.
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Teenagers

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students use their knowledge of numbers from 13 – 20 in a random order to tell which number in the pair is greater than or less than the number.

identify the sequence of teen numbers.

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Clockwork

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students practise their forwards and backwards counting.

count forwards and backwards in ones

use mathematical language such as before, after, later, earlier, and between.

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Ordering Fitness Fun

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
This activity is to practise ordering numbers and saying the number before and after a given number in the range 1-20.

order numbers in the range 1-10 and then 1-20

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Guess My Number

Level One
Number and Algebra
Numeracy activities
In this activity students will use their knowledge of numbers between 1 and 100 to try to identify the teacher’s hidden number.

explore attributes of numbers between 1 and 100