Number sentences

Mathematics

Mathematics in the world around us

Educator section

Memorandum

Critical and developmental outcomes:

The learners must be able to:

1. identify and solve problems and make decisions using critical and creative thinking;

2. work effectively with others as members of a team, group, organisation and community;

3. organise and manage themselves and their activities responsibly and effectively;

4. collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information;

5. communicate effectively using visual, symbolic and/or language skills in various modes;

6. use science and technology effectively and critically, showing responsibility towards the environment and the health of others;

6. demonstrate an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation;

7. reflect on and explore a variety of strategies to learn more effectively;

8. participate as responsible citizens in the life of local, national, and global communities;

9. be culturally and aesthetically sensitive across a range of social contexts;

10. explore education and career opportunities; and

develop entrepreneurial opportunities.

• Integration of Themes: Friends
• Social Justice, Human Rights and a healthy environment: “I am in Grade 2 with many other children. Each learner needs to be happy. The educator needs a suitable learning environment in order to teach us.”
• Discuss the learner’s responsibility to create such an environment.
• Taking turns on the jungle gym is important – why? Discuss safety, manners, co-operation, etc.
• Learners extend their number concept to 109 on the “jungle gym”. The activities include ordinals, names, symbols and counting forward and backward.
• Position is established by places in the classroom, using a floor map of the room.
• A graph is designed to be completed by collecting information.
• Addition and subtraction are extended to +4, -4, +5, -5, +6, -6, +7, -7.
• Bonds of 10 and 11 are discovered.
• Directions are given to draw and colour a shape.
• Measuring with thumbs and comparison of these measurements using the related vocabulary.

Leaner section

Content

Activity: number sentence [lo 1.1, lo 1.2, lo 1.4, lo 2.2]

• Slips and slides on the jungle gym.
• Fill in the numbers as you climb the steps and slide down the slides.

• Fun with numbers on the Jungle Gym.
• Count to a friend.

2. Count all the numbers from 0 → 59 on the Jungle Gym.

3. Begin from 0, count in 2’s to 58.

• These are the _____________ numbers (even, uneven)

1. Begin at 58. Count back in 2’s to 0.

2. Begin from 1, count in 2’s to 59.

• These are the _____________ numbers (even, uneven)

1. Begin from 59. Count back in 2’s to 1.

2. Begin from 0. Count in 3’s to 30.

• Write them:

0, 3, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, 30

1. Begin from 30. Count back in 3’s to 0.

• Begin from 30. Count back in 3’s to 0.

30, 27, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, 0

2. Tel in 10 ‘e tot by 100.

• Write them:

10, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, __, 100

• Which number comes between _____________?

• Write their names:

• Count in 10’s: