This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of the concept that sometimes things move and change location. Students are provided opportunities to:
represent numbers in a variety of ways
reason about the way numbers can be combined and separated
share objects equally and put shared objects back together to form one collection
use positional language both in a physical world context and in more abstract contexts.
Before engaging in these teaching and learning activities, students would benefit from prior experience with:
opportunities to demonstrate an increasing understanding of measurement and number using vocabulary to describe position, length, and names of numbers
mathematical language to describe spatial sense, structure and pattern, number, measurement, data, connections
contributing constructively to mathematical discussions.