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Clocks and More Clocks
Strand
Measurement
Maths Concepts
Australian Curriculum: Description
“When the hall clock reads twenty minutes past four, the attick clock reads twenty-three minutes past four, the kitchen clock reads twenty-five minutes past four, and the bedroom clock reads twenty-six minutes past four, what should Mr. Higgins do? He can’t tell whichc of his clocks tells the right time. He is in for a real surprise when the Clockmaker shows him that they are all correct!”
Teaching ideas
Why have Mr. Higgins clocks been right since he bought a watch?
Grandfather Tang’s Story: A tale told with tangrams
Strand
Space
Australian Curriculum: Description
ACMMG009; ACMMG010; ACMMG022; ACMMG042; ACMMG064; ACMMG088; ACMMG089; ACMMG091; ACMMG112; ACMMG113; ACMMG141; ACMMG142; ACMMG165; ACMMG166
Teaching ideas
Constructing tangrams, barrier games, jigsaws, tangram teasers, exploring triangles, oblongs, parallelograms, trapeziums, areas, polygons, hexagons, angles
Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens
Strand
Number
Maths Concepts
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)