31) Starting at Twenty: Using Words
Counting Backwards from 20
Understanding Activity
This is an ‘understanding’ (proficiency strand) activity.
Please refer to the instructions in the appropriate Implementation Planner for your context.
Number Board
Bond Blocks fit on this board. Use it in Sessions 1, 2 and 3.
- Project for “We Do”.
- Print for students “You Do”.
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Mathematics
- Develop fluency counting backwards in the correct order from 20 to 10.
- Connect the length of the Bond Blocks and number name.
- Identify numbers from 11 to 19 as a two-part bond made of 10 plus a single-digit number.
Language
- One shorter.
- One less than.
- One number before.
- A number is made up of digits in the same way a word is made up of letters. The number 16 is made up of the digits one and six.
- Place value: The place of a digit in a number determines the digit’s value (worth).
- In the number 16 the digit one is in the tens place so is worth one ten, ten.
- The digit six is in the ones place so is worth six ones, six.
Differentiation
A little easier
Correcting ‘teen’ and ‘ty’ Errors
Please read the Teacher Note “Correcting ‘teen’ and ‘ty’ Errors” pages 78 – 83.
A little harder
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