Early Arithmetic Strategies
The principle that you can count objects in any order you like
What is Order Irrelevance
A conceptual whole, made up of parts
What is a Composite Unit
An attribute that expresses the size of a surface
What is Area
A learning framework made popular by Jerome Bruner that works with visual representations of the concept
What is Pictorial
A pictorial tool to help identify equivalent fractions and aid in the addition and subtracting of fractions
What is a Fraction Wall
The rules children need to know to count a collection of items including Stable word order, one to one principle, cardinal principle, order irrelevance and abstract.
What is the 5 Principles of Counting
A facile counting strategy where you recognise what is needed to form ten
What is Bridging to Ten
Everyday objects such as paddle pop sticks, hand spans or spaghetti used to teach the procedures and processes of measuring
What is an Informal Unit
The 5 stages of development used to represent a child’s understanding of Geometry. (only first 3 are focused on in primary school)
What is Van Heile Levels
A flexible method for learning multiplication that deals with rows and columns
What is the Array Method
Rather than counting by ones, the student counts in groups or chunks to solve a task
What is Flexible or Facile Counting
Using concrete materials such as bean counters to make groups of ten
What is Bundling
The quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
What is Symmetry
A formative and summative assessment used to help track a students progress and make judgements on their understandings
What is the SENA (Schedule for Early Number Assessment
A type of growing pattern that is increased by a fixed amount
What is a Linear Growing Pattern
An early counting strategy where students reconstruct numbers relying on imagined units in their mind
What is Figurative Counting
A number concept that is essential to counting very large and very small numbers, which can be aided through experiences with base ten manipulative and bundling, trading and regrouping activities
What is Place Value
A type of Quadrilateral that has 1 pair of parallel sides
What is a Trapezium
The process strand of NSW Mathematics syllabus which focuses on Communicating, Problem Solving, Reasoning, Fluency and Understanding
What is Working Mathematically
The name given to the number in a graph that is obtained by adding up all the data and then dividing it by the number of data
What is the Mean
An Early Arithmetic stage that includes strategies such as Emergent, Perceptual, Figurative and Counting On and Back
What is Count by Ones
A concept where a student is able to see 10 as one group of 10 rather than just ten individual ones
What is Ten as a Unit (also a Composite Unit)
The ability to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment to the container, shape or apparent size
What is the Principle of Conservation
A content strand of the NSW syllabus that includes the subjects Understanding Chance (UnC) and Interpreting and Representing Data (IRD).
What is Statistics and Probability
An expression, rule, or law that defines a relationship between one variable (input) and another variable (the output).
What is a Function