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: establishing position in the classroom [lo 1.2, lo 1.9, lo 2.2, lo 3.5, lo 3.6, lo 3.7, lo 3.8, lo 4.6]
- This is my classroom
- Study the map of the classroom.
- Make sure you know where everything is.
1. ______ is the blackboard. Colour it.
2. ______ is the door. Colour it.
3. ______ is the windows. Colour them.
4. ______ is the cupboards. Colour it.
5. ______ is the teacher’s table. Colour it.
6. ______ is the mat. Colour it.
7. ______ is the reading corner. Colour it.
8. ______ is my desk. Colour it.
9. ______ is Henry’s desk. Colour it.
- A is the row that I sit in.
- Where is the front of the class?
- Where is the back of the class?
- Which is the left side?
- Which is the right side?
| LO 3.5 | LO 3.6 | LO 3.7 | LO 3.8 |
- Complete:
- How many pupils do you think are in my Grade 2 class? Guess first.
- Write:
I guessed ______________ pupils.
Count the pupils in 2’s.
I counted ______________ pupils.
- Tick that fits.
I guessed correctly.