Product Description
This bundle has all the MIST Investigations for maths with accompanying videos and lesson ideas.
A) Developing Number Ideas
Investigations
1. World without Number | How numbers are used in everyday life |
2. Sort it Out | Choosing criteria for sorting and classifying |
3. Take Your Partners | Developing the ability to match two objects |
4. Enough for Everyone? | One-to-one matching between objects |
5. More or Less? | Comparing the number of objects by matching |
6. What’s the Order? | Ordering different amounts of continuous materials |
7. How Big? How Small? | Size involves comparisons |
8. Repeating Patterns | Sequences that repeat |
9. What are numbers? | The ways in which the same number may be written or spoken |
10. Looking at numbers | Helping to build the concept of what a number is |
11. What Counts? | How numbers can be used to find out how many of something there is |
12. Ways of Counting | Counting is done all over the world |
13. How many are there? | Discovering the numbers of objects around you |
14. How many altogether? | Understanding addition |
15. How many here? | Addition and subtraction within a range of contexts |
B) Developing Number Ideas
Investigations
People and Numbers | How important some numbers can be to people |
Tens and Hundreds | Exploring our Base 10 number system |
Addition Grid | Understanding the number patterns of addition |
100 Grid | Recognising number patterns in a completed 100 grid |
Hundreds and Thousands | Reading and writing very large numbers |
A Multiplication Grid | Helping children see patterns in multiplication |
Negative and Positive Numbers | Using a number line to understand negative and positive numbers |
Patterns in Calculations | Developing a range of methods for calculation |
Growing Numbers | Explaining sequences and predicting numbers in series |
Patterns in Numbers | Seeing numbers in spatial arrays |
Powerful Numbers | Seeing how quickly numbers can grow when multiplied |
Ratios | Recognizing and understanding ratios in different contexts |
Where is it? | Locating things using 1, 2 and 3 dimensions |
C) Number in Action
Investigations
Half of It | Exploring halves of whole things and halves of numbers of things |
Halves and Quarters | Exploring the relationship between halves and quarters |
Everyday Fractions | Developing an awareness of different fractions |
Tenths and Hundredths | Exploring tenths and hundredths as fractions of real things |
Living Fractions | Creating fractions from examples in everyday life |
What’s the Point | Learning how to read and write decimal tenths |
Decimal Hundredths | Learning how to read and write decimal hundredths |
Decimal Places | Practising using decimals with a variety of decimal places |
Different Decimals | Learning how to convert one metric unit to another |
Percentage Numbers | Understanding simple percentages |
Are there enough? | Estimating numbers of things and approximating answers |
About How Many? | Estimating and measuring quantities |
Nearer and Nearer | Using trial and adjustment with various measures |
What’s the Distance? | Introducing a variety of linear measure eg width, height, depth |
How Accurate? | When to be accurate and when to use approximations |
Using & Applying Number – Coming Soon!
The Herb Garden
Designing the Garden | Investigating shape and area and perimeter |
Growing Seeds | Working out what calculations to make |
Planting Out | Using trial and error when starting to solve a problem |
Using Water
Investigating Use | Deciding what information is needed |
Measuring and Recording | Devising ways to measure and record |
How Much is Needed? | Deciding what calculations are necessary |
The School Show
The Audience | Using calculations when planning |
Tickets and Seating | Using calculations to solve problems |
Refreshments | Using approximations for a real purpose |
The School Newspaper
Planning the edition | Using calculations in creating something real and solving problems |
Pages, Columns & Words | Using calculations to explain the reasoning behind decisions |
Pasting Up | Learning to piece together information and display the results |
Canary Wharf
The Visit | Taking measurements and planning |
Making a Model | Using ratios for comparisons and problems that involve scale |
Working to Scale | Interpreting information and presenting the findings |
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