Recommended Books

Each Orange Had 8 Slices

Paul Giganti Jr

Australian Curriculum:  Description

F.Y – Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from  any starting point (ACMNA001); F.Y – Represent practical situations to model addition and sharing (ACMNA004); Year 1 – Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies including counting on, partitioning and rearranging parts (ACMNA015); Year 3 – Recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and related division facts (ACMNA056)

Teaching ideas
Build on the concept of counting on, partitioning and part-part-whole with other object sequences.

Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens

Cindy Neuschwander

Australian Curriculum:  Description

2-Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000 (ACMNA027); 2-Group, partition and rearrange collections up to 1000 in hundreds, tens and ones to facilitate more efficient counting (ACMNA028); 3-Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 10 000 (ACMNA052); 3-Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least 10 000 to assist calculations and solve problems (ACMNA053)

Teaching ideas
Other place value sheets, activities, games, representations