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OUTCOME
A student:
MAe-8NA: recognises, describes and continues repeating patterns
TEACHING POINT There are two forms of division: | Sharing (partitive) – How many in each group? eg ‘If 12 marbles are shared between three students, how many does each get?’ |
| Grouping (quotitive) – How many groups are there? eg ‘If I have 12 marbles and each child is to get four, how many children will get marbles?’ |
| LANGUAGE | Students should be able to communicate using the following language: group, share, equal. |
Investigate and model equal groups | use the term ‘group’ to describe a collection of objects |
| use the term ‘sharing’ to describe the distribution of a collection of objects | |
| model equal groups | |
| recognise groups that are not equal in size | |
| group and share concrete materials to solve problems |
Record grouping and sharing using informal methods | label the number of objects in a group |
| record grouping and sharing informally using pictures, words and numerals |
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