This year, we are delighted to welcome Numeracy Consultants Jessica Batanovic and Nicole Thompson from NJ Education to the team at Mackellar Primary School. Jessica and Nicole will be working with staff across all areas of the mathematics curriculum on a fortnightly basis.
Earlier this term, we were fortunate to have Jessica and Nicole lead a whole staff professional learning day focused on instructional practices in Mathematics. The session was highly informative, and staff are already beginning to apply this valuable learning in their classrooms.
Jessica and Nicole also share resources and ideas through their public Instagram account, @tic_tac_two, which families are welcome to follow.
What’s happening in the classrooms?
Term 1 has been all about Place Value. This term students have been:
Prep
Exploring the number sequence to ten
Identifying numbers before and number after
Matching numerals to representations of objects
Identifying ‘how many objects?’
Subitising: exploring the concept of ‘how many?’ without counting.
Grade 1
Making quantities with groups of ten
Partitioning two digit numbers into tens and ones
Naming and recording two-digit numbers
Addressing ‘teen’ (17) and ‘ty’ (70)
Comparing and ordering two-digit numbers
Grade 2
Recognising, representing and ordering numbers to 1000
Exploring the place value of 2 and 3 digit numbers as hundreds, tens and ones
Interpreting (renaming) 3 digit numbers
Counting by place value parts
Grade 3
Reading and writing the names of 4 digit numbers
Modeling 4 digit numbers with physical materials
Comparing and ordering 4 digit numbers and placing them on a numberline
Renaming 4 digit numbers
Grade 4
Exploring the place value of numbers to 100 000, renaming numbers in a variety of combinations.
Reading, writing, representing and interpreting numbers to the hundreds of thousands of thousands.
Extending their understanding of place value to decimal tenths and hundredths
Representing decimals using visual models
Grade 5
Making models of decimals including tenths, hundredths and thousandths
Explaining the multiplicative relationship between consecutive places (for example, explaining that hundredths are 10 times smaller than the tenths to compare and order them)
Renaming decimals to assist with mental computation
Using a number line to represent and locate decimals with varying numbers of decimal places and numbers greater than one and justifying the placement.
Grade 6
Exploring the base-10 system with large numbers
Representing , comparing and ordering decimals with more than two decimal places
Recognising situations that use integers
Locating and representing integers on a number line
