KYLIE PEARSONStudent Number 0061044470

COMPARING CARDS

EDX 1280 - FOUNDATIONS OF NUMERACY

The following presentation is describing how to use the set of Comparing Cards designed for Foundations of Numeracy EDX1280 Semester 1 2015.

The Comparing cards are designed to introduce the concept of comparing to Foundation level students using materials language stage of the Mathematics Language Model.The thinking strategies of more than or less than and ordering numbers are established during this activity, in correspondence with The Australian Curriculum Number and Algebra content strand and content description ACMNA289 - Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning .The use of the Caldwell Patter for positioning the images on the cards is to encourage students to make pictures in their minds to help identify the small collections for comparison (Queensland Studies Authority, 2013).

Today we are going to learn about numbers that are more or less.

(Child’s name), please choose a card. How many owls do you see on the card? How can we find out? That’s right, let’s count.

(Child’s name), can you please choose a card. How many owls on your card? That’s right, count to find out.

Lets look at the first card.

Who thinks this card has MORE owls?

Who thinks it has LESS ?

Lets look at this card.

Who thinks this card has MORE owls?

Who thinks it has LESS?

How can we tell if there is more of something?Yes, the group looks bigger, or is a bigger amount.

How can we tell is there is less?Yes the group looks smaller. We can count to check too.

(Child’s name), which card do you think has MORE owls ?

Why? Yes, there is a bigger group. Lets count to make sure.

One, two three, four, five, six, seven. That’s right, there are seven owls in this group.

One, two. Yes, there are two owls in this group.

So which card has MORE? Yes the first card. Which is MORE? Seven or two? (point to respective cards.)That’s right seven is more than 2.Let’s try another one.

Repeat this process with two different students and two different cards until all students have had a turn.

Now we will learn about what comes JUST BEFORE and JUST AFTER.Which card has the SMALLEST amount of owls? That’s right. Lets put the one card FIRST.Which number comes JUST AFTER one? That’s it…..two. Let’s put two NEXT.

(Continue until all cards are in order on the table. )

I wonder what comes JUST AFTER 4?

(Locate the four card and discuss how the five card comes JUST AFTER it.)

I wonder what comes JUST BEFORE 8?(Locate the eight card and discuss how seven comes JUST BEFORE eight.)

Finish by putting all cards back in order and counting from LEAST to MOST.