Core Concepts/Skills/Strategies

Operations

What are the core concepts?

‘ A mathematic concept is a metacognitive understanding or it is the PICTURE you form in your head about an object or word’ lecture 1

For example: What picture do you get in your head about 5 + 3 = 8 ??

‘As children solve story problems for any of the four operations, they count on, count back, amke and count groups, and make comparisons. ’ text p.125

During this operation, they form new relationships and discover different ways of working with numbers.

Concepts, skills and strategies are what we teach in

mathematics

Addition concept

Addition could be described in various ways.- Addition is the sum of all things added

together- A way of putting things together

Subtraction conceptThere are 3 types of subtraction

• Take away… “ I had 6 bananas and I ate 2. How many do I have left?”

• Difference or comparison… “ I have 2 bananas and you have 5 bananas. How many MORE do you HAVE THAN ME?”

• Missing addend… “I have 4 bananas, but I need 8 for all my friends. How many bananas more DO I NEED?”

Multiplication & Division Concepts

“Multiplication is repeated addition where all parts are equal to each other”

“Division is the operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in the

other; the inverse of multiplication”

What are skills in relation to Operations?

Each concepts can have different skills associated with them. Some skills are:

• Maths language• Rainbow numbers• Place value charts• Materials language

What are different strategies that can be used?

These are different and efficient ways to approach teaching operations in mathematcis.

• It is a way of processing information e.g mental

• Algorithms• Understanding relationships of numbers• Practicing methodsThese are without pencils, paper or calculators.

CONCEPT = picture in your headSKILL = process of conceptsSTRATEGY = ways of processing

information

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