32) Starting at Twenty: Using Numbers
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.
Mathematics
- Develop fluency counting backwards in the correct order from 20 to 10.
- Identify numbers from 11 to 19 as a two-part bond made of 10 plus a single-digit number.
- Connect the length of the Bond Blocks, number name and numeral.
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
“Ten And Ones”
Repeat Session 1 using the language “ten and ones”.
Note:
Session 1 uses the language “ten then ones”
Session 2 uses the language “ten add ones”
See the Board 1 from the A Little Easier chapter.
A little harder
Write the Number
Player One builds the number using the arrow cards, saying “tens, then one”.
Player Two writes and says the number.
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