1.9 Friends

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: Friends should spend time together, e.g. playing games. Discuss in small groups what your attitude towards your friends should be when you play together.
• A healthy environment: Why is sport important? Discuss the safety precautions needed when participating in sport at school.
• Inclusively: Who should be allowed to participate in sport at school? Only team players? Or should the school accommodate everyone? Make you own graph of which learners participate in sport.

• Number concept is extended to 50.
• Counting in 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and 10’s.
• Calendar activities enable learners to order the months and revise ordinals.
• Graph – a weather graph can be completed.
• Bonds of 10 are introduced with many opportunities to reinforce these.
• Measurement activities involving comparisons of height, length, width using related vocabulary.
• Capacity – litre;
• Identifying coins and shapes are included.

Leaner section

Content

Activity: friends [lo 4.2, lo 4.6, lo 5.1, lo 5.2, lo 5.5]

• Here are my friends again. Cut them out and arrange them from the shortest to the tallest. Paste them on the next page.

• How did you do?

• Choose one and colour.
• Complete:

___________________________________________________ is the shortest.

___________________________________________________ is the tallest.

_______________________ is taller than _____________________________

_______________________ is shorter than ___________________________

• I use my pencil to measure the lengths of my friends’ pictures, which I have pasted.
• Complete the lists below.

• Let’s put the months of the year in order. My birthday is in January.

• Let the number line help you.

1st January

2nd __________________________________________

3rd __________________________________________

4rd __________________________________________

5th __________________________________________

6th __________________________________________

7th __________________________________________

8th __________________________________________

9th __________________________________________

10th __________________________________________

11th __________________________________________

12th __________________________________________

Today is the ________________________ of _____________________________

A page from my calendar

Month

• Write the dates for this month above. Begin from 1.
• Complete:

The 1st of _______________________ is on a _____________________________

______________________________ has ______________________________ days.

There are ____________________________________ days from 5th to the 11th.

The 20th (twentieth) falls on a __________________________________________

There are ______________________ Sundays in ______________________ (month)

• Collect the information for this month.

__________________________________________________________ (month)

• Use the above information for your graph.

• The __________________________________________ days were the most.
• The ___________________________________________ days were the least.

Assessment

Learning Outcome 4: The learner will be able to use appropriate measuring units, instruments and formulae in a variety of contexts.

Assessment Standard 4.2: The learner will be able to names in order the days of the week and the months of the year;

Assessment Standard 4.6: The learner will be able to estimates, measures, compares and orders three-dimensional objects using non-standard measures;

Learning Outcome 5: The learner will be able to collect, summarise, display and critically analyse data in order to draw conclusions and make predictions, and to interpret and determine chance variation.

Assessment Standard 5.1: We know this when the learner collects data (alone and/or as a member of a group or team) in the classroom and school environment to answer questions posed by the teacher (e.g. ‘how many learners are there in each classroom?’);

Assessment Standard 5.2: We know this when the learner sorts physical objects to one attribute chosen by the teacher;

Assessment Standard 5.5: We know this when the learner describes own or a peer’s collection of objects, explains how it was sorted, and answers questions about it.