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.
| LO 1.1 | LO 2.2 |
- 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
| LO 1.2 |
- Which number comes between _____________?
- Write their names:
- Count in 10’s: