Teaching Resources
Number
The items listed on this page are some examples of the wide range of activities that are available. You may also like to explore activities from the websites listed on the websites(number) page.
Number
A variety of calculator problems developed by Mathematics Education Innovation in the UK to support transition from grade 6 and develop confidence in using calculators.
**NEW** KenKen
Booklet: Building fluency and reasoning with KenKen puzzles
Youtube: How to play KenKen - Dr. Paul Swan
MAV produced weekly home learning guides to assist teachers to support families with mathematics home learning during 2020. There are three learning levels: F – 2, 3 – 6, and 7 – 9.
The tasks are a mix of open-ended, rich tasks, challenging tasks and small investigations covering all mathematical content areas. Scroll through the activity sets to find tasks for number.
Counting and Place Value
This resource by the Victorian Department of Education and Training provides teaching content, resources and teaching ideas linked to the curriculum.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This task challenges children to estimate, count and organise a quantity in an efficient manner. This links to an article by Doug Clarke, Ann Downton and Anne Roche where they describe an activity--for which a number line (in the form of a number roll) is a key component--that is built around the One-minute challenge game. They outline the basic game and then present a range of ways to adapt it according to content focus and student age.
This you tube clip explores ways to rename numbers in a visual and hands on representation.
Article: Peter Sullivan and James Russo (Monash Uni)
A short article exploring dynamic counting. Includes several activities ideas and extension ideas into middle years.
Addition and Subtraction
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This activity from NRICH allows students to explore the addition and subtraction through an investigate using three die.
This activity from NRICH allows students to explore the addition and subtraction. A cryptarithm is a mathematical puzzle where the digits in a sum have been replaced by letters.
Multiplication and Division
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This is resource is developed by Maryann Wickett and Marilyn Burns and provided by Maths Solutions. It creates a way to make sense of remainders.
Can you put together a healthy and sustainable lunchbox? Could be used to explore the multiplicative structure - Cartesian Product (Combinations)
For information on Cartesian Product refer to Key Ideas for Conceptual Development in Mathematics pg 17
Fractions and Decimals
This resource by the Victorian Department of Education and Training provides teaching content, resources and teaching ideas linked to the curriculum.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
On the last page of this article is a game for exploring partitioning and equivalent fractions. Let the children play the game and work out how to colour 3/4 if they only have 1/4 left on their fraction wall. Could they colour 6/8? What if you rolled 3/2? What could you colour? It is a good idea to ask the children to use a different colour pencil for each roll so you can see if they coloured correctly. Developed by Doug Clarke and Anne Roche (Australian Catholic University)
This resource was developed by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Strategic Support Mathematics and the Contemporary Teaching and Learning (CTLM) professional learning program.
This article by Anne Roche explores decimats and how they can help students with the conceptual understanding of decimal place value. It also explores a game based on the game Colour Me Fractions.
This resource was developed by Vince Wright, Australian Catholic University (ACU) for Catholic Education Melbourne as part of the Expert Teaching F - 4 Mathematics professional learning program in 2016.
This resource from Math For Love has downloadable PDF images to explore balancing fractions using mobiles.
Money
This resource by the Victorian Department of Education and Training provides teaching content, resources and teaching ideas linked to the curriculum.
This video and task ideas from ABC Education explores Australian money. Compare the different coins and notes and discover if the size of a coin indicates its value. Also looks at some money from around the world.