Tag Archives: relationships

Progression in Number Ranges at First Level

Posted on August 21, 2020 by highlandnumeracyblog

The post yesterday was related to making sense of part-whole addition and subtraction strategies that pupils use and showed some examples of these with concrete materials and visual representations as well as exploring the mathematical properties that underpin them. The … Continue reading →

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Making sense of missing number problems… at Early Level!!!

Posted on October 8, 2019 by highlandnumeracyblog

Hopefully that’s got your attention! The mystery of why missing number problems are so maddening for many pupils is not really so mysterious when you begin to unpick why they might be having difficulties with them. From experience, and this … Continue reading →

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Maths Week Scotland – Monday’s Challenge

Posted on September 30, 2019 by highlandnumeracyblog

This activity has been inspired by the work of John Mason’s More/Less Grids and is almost an exact replication of his original More or Less Perimeter and Area Task. The original task can be found here with other ideas for … Continue reading →

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