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Core concept: Objects can be sorted and classified based on their attributes.
Daily number sense: Attributes through music and movement
Daily number sense: Attributes through music and movement
Build student understanding of attributes through music and dance.
Build student understanding of attributes through music and dance.
Introduce the song ‘It’s an attribute kind of day’ and invite students to contribute their different attribute suggestions in the lyrics of the song such as shape, size, and colour. Encourage students to use their bodies to form the shape or represent the size and point to the colour when they are singing the song.
Introduce the song ‘It’s an attribute kind of day’ and invite students to contribute their different attribute suggestions in the lyrics of the song such as shape, size, and colour. Encourage students to use their bodies to form the shape or represent the size and point to the colour when they are singing the song.
Playing with maths helps you become a mathematician!
Playing with maths helps you become a mathematician!
What are the attributes (characteristics) of the shapes below in the attribute train?
What are the attributes (characteristics) of the shapes below in the attribute train?
Use the prompts to guide students along the train e.g. I wonder what shape this is...
Use the prompts to guide students along the train e.g. I wonder what shape this is...
Look at the attribute train below. What attributes do you see in each object?
Look at the attribute train below. What attributes do you see in each object?
Prompt students to describe which attributes change each time and which attributes stay the same. Students can predict what object might come next.
Prompt students to describe which attributes change each time and which attributes stay the same. Students can predict what object might come next.
Explicit Modelling: An attribute circle is arranged so it starts and finishes with the same card.
Explicit Modelling: An attribute circle is arranged so it starts and finishes with the same card.
Ask questions to promote working mathematically, ‘I wonder, is it possible to create an attribute circle? Can you describe different possibilities?’
Ask questions to promote working mathematically, ‘I wonder, is it possible to create an attribute circle? Can you describe different possibilities?’
Activity: You will work in small groups to create your own attribute circles where two (2) attributes change each time.
Activity: You will work in small groups to create your own attribute circles where two (2) attributes change each time.
Consolidation and meaningful practice: Discussing, connecting, and making explicit some of the mathematics
Consolidation and meaningful practice: Discussing, connecting, and making explicit some of the mathematics
Refer back to Resource 8: Two attribute circles and generate a class discussion using questions from the prompt table below.
Help students to notice the attributes that stay the same and those that change, as in Figure 11. Use the prompt table to guide the conversation.
Figure 11 – Focusing on the attributes that change and stay the same
Allow time for students to complete their own attribute circle, as seen in Figure 12. Students use loose items such as rocks, sticks, shells, leaves and seed pods.
Figure 12 – Attribute circle using loose items
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