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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.
Links to Australian Curriculum: Mathematics:
Foundation Year: ACMNA001, ACMNA002​, ACMNA289​, ​ACMNA003
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’. ​
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.
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.
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