Foundation Year Inquiry Resources
Select a strand from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, below.
Number and algebra
How can we plan a tea party for our friends?
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Within the context of a tea party (or other familiar event with food), students develop confidence in using the language of counting and connecting number names, numerals and quantities using one-to-one correspondence.
The guided mathematical inquiry unit, Tea Party: How can we plan a tea party for our friends?, and the description above, can be found at the reSolve: Maths by Inquiry website.
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measurement and algebra
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Statistics and probability
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You may also be interested in other inquiries from the Thinking through Mathematics series, Book 1 (Ages 6-8) |
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The following titles are available on the Free Resources page:
Playing with dough: What is the best recipe for playdough?
Students use measurement and the procedural genre (recipes), and are introduced informally to scientific testing when they follow a recipe to make playdough, then determine their own criteria by which to rank the playdough to determine the ‘best’.
Students use measurement and the procedural genre (recipes), and are introduced informally to scientific testing when they follow a recipe to make playdough, then determine their own criteria by which to rank the playdough to determine the ‘best’.
Linked up: What is the longest paper chain that can be made from A4 paper?
In this unit, students use an A4 sheet of coloured paper to produce a paper chain.
In this unit, students use an A4 sheet of coloured paper to produce a paper chain.
Which way from here: Can others follow my route?
In this unit, students draw a map representation of their school grounds and use it to describe a walking trail: a sequence of areas they might visit to give a new student a tour of the school.
In this unit, students draw a map representation of their school grounds and use it to describe a walking trail: a sequence of areas they might visit to give a new student a tour of the school.
