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SN Introductory Activities

Structuring Numbers 
Instructional Activities

Structuring Numbers Part 1 Instructional Activities

  1. Introductory activities

    • Children explore the rack.

    • Introduce the double-decker bus scenario.

    • Introduce the conventions of the rack.

  2. Show this many people on the bus - shift to focus on efficiency

  3. Figure out how many people are on the bus when the configuration is specified

    • Partner version of activity 3

  4. Rack flash

    • Partner version of rack flash

  5. Rack bingo

  6. Rack flash variation

    • Partner version of rack flash variation

Structuring Numbers Part 2
Instructional Activities

  1. Introductory activity

  2. Reasoning by moving the beads

  3. Anticipation activity

  4. Reasoning without moving the beads

  5. Imagination Bingo

Structuring Numbers Part 3
Instructional Activities

  1. Additive tasks without the rack

    • Posed in a context (story)

      • Cookie Jar

      • Bus

      • Purse

      • Piggy Bank

    • Posed purely numerically

  2. Focus on written numerical notation

    • “Read my mind” activity

SN Part 2 Activites
SN Part 3 Activities
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