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Cain, Chris; Faulkner, Valerie; Fanelli, Kate – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2020
In the USA, the Common Core Standards in Mathematics for the early grades (K-3) are designed to build on and develop students' number sense as students gain understanding of the structures of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is well understood in teaching circles that subtraction is notoriously more difficult for students…
Descriptors: Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction, Common Core State Standards, Elementary School Students
Lovitt, Charles – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
This article describes how Charles Lovitt found a classroom activity in a resource book and by peering through a pedagogy lens, enhanced, tweaked, adapted, and extended the idea into a richer, healthier, well balanced classroom lesson. The task described in the article is often presented to students as a flash card for a limited time with the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Visual Stimuli, Teaching Methods, Computation
Tripet, Kristen; Barker, Valerie; Patel, Ruqiyah; Thornton, Steve – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2018
Algebraic reasoning is foundational to all mathematical thinking. This is no less the case in the early years of school, where the capacity to recognise the structure of mathematical processes enables students to acquire deep conceptual understanding. It is through algebra, therefore, that students are able to explore and express mathematical…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3
Sullivan, Peter; Russo, James – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
It is frequently surprising to new teachers (and even those with experience) when they find that not only do some children need to recount the group they have just counted to be assured of the total but also that this need seems to be resistant to intervention. Although moving from "counting-all" to "count-on" is sometimes…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Computation, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
Russo, James – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
Using a game-based context and concentrating explicitly on language, students in the early years are able to make sense about place value amid the vagaries of the English language in naming numbers. This conceptual approach to understanding place value allows students to further develop number strategies beyond counting by ones.
Descriptors: Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Concepts, Numbers
Hurst, Chris – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2016
It is important for students to make informed decisions about computation. This article highlights this importance and develops a framework which may assist teachers to help students to make effective computational choices.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Decision Making
Monks, Lisa; Chick, Helen – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2018
Fitness trackers can provide primary students with exciting opportunities to calculate, measure time and distance, graph, make sense of data, and improve their activity levels. This article suggests ways to use fitness trackers in the classroom.
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Measurement Equipment, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Mildenhall, Paula – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
In this article Paula Mildenhall describes a research project that investigated the use of a multi-semiotic teaching approach to develop flexible computational strategies in young children.
Descriptors: Numeracy, Preschool Education, Computation, Mathematics Instruction
Day, Lorraine; Hurrell, Derek – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
Lorraine Day and Derek Hurrell provide a convincing argument for using arrays to promote students' understandings of mental computation strategies for multiplication. They also provide a range of different examples that illustrate the benefits of arrays in the primary classroom.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Computation
van Klinken, Eduarda; Juleff, Emma – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
In this article, the authors describe their efforts to teach counting skills to their class of 5- to 7-year-olds at the Glenleighden School, located in a a suburb of Brisbane. As Glenleighden early childhood teachers, they work in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team that supports children with speech and language difficulties.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Elementary School Mathematics, Computation, Mathematics Skills
Russo, James – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
In this article James Russo presents the Strategies, Understanding, Reading and Fast Facts Framework (SURF) for mental computation. He explains how this framework can be used to deepen mathematical understanding and build mental flexibility.
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Mathematics Achievement
Tucker, Stephen I. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
Stephen Tucker presents a fractions game that addresses a range of fraction concepts including equivalence and computation. The REFractions game also improves students' fluency with representing, comparing and adding fractions.
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Beaman, Belinda – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2013
As teachers we are encouraged to contextualize the mathematics that we teach. In this article, Belinda Beaman explains how she used the weather as a context for developing decimal understanding. We particularly enjoyed reading how the students were involved in estimating.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Arithmetic, Climate, Mathematics
Cheeseman, Jill; Michels, Deborah – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2013
Jill Cheeseman and Deborah Michels let us eavesdrop on a young child's attempt to solve a four-digit subtraction. In the process they describe the use of an empty number line as a tool for describing the calculation process. If you haven't tried using an empty number line, then the authors outline some compelling reasons for using empty number…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Primary Education, Mathematics Skills, Young Children
Roche, Anne – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2013
In the middle years of school, it is important that mathematics is challenging, engaging and focuses on worthwhile mathematics. In this article, Anne Roche describes a lesson that seemed to have all three of these characteristics, as students grappled with issues of scale to create a fun run, given a range of challenging mathematical constraints.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 5, Grade 6, Teaching Methods