This fully photocopiable resource will provide essential materials for anyone teaching pre-entry or foundation Maths in secondary schools and further education. Teaching Foundation Mathematics is developed to provide age appropriate material for adult learners with moderate to severe learning difficulties and/or disabilities and for children, over twelve, with special needs. It will also prove useful to teachers training to work with these learners. Thirty ready-to-use lessons are at your fingertips in this book, complete with tutor’s notes, teaching objectives, detailed lesson plans and photocopiable worksheets, where appropriate. The lessons are divided into three areas – number, shape and measure.
Author(s): Na Naggar-Smith
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 200
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
Part I: Number......Page 14
Introduction to Number......Page 16
Lesson N1 – Cardinal numbers......Page 18
Lesson N2 – Ordinal numbers......Page 23
Lesson N3 – Card bingo......Page 31
Lesson N4 – Number lines......Page 37
Lesson N5 – Using the number line for addition and subtraction......Page 44
Lesson N6 – Introduction to using bar charts......Page 50
Lesson N7 – Estimating......Page 55
Lesson N8 – Early multiplication......Page 62
Lesson N9 – Addition and subtraction strips......Page 74
Lesson N10 – Connecting concepts to symbols (addition and equals)......Page 81
Part II: Measure......Page 96
Introduction to Measure......Page 98
Lesson M1 – Length: footprints and handspans......Page 100
Lesson M2 – Capacity......Page 110
Lesson M3 – Shoe sizes......Page 118
Lesson M4 – Which coin?......Page 124
Lesson M5 – Weight......Page 128
Lesson M6 – Time: David’s Day......Page 134
Lesson M7 – Days of the week......Page 143
Lesson M8 – Months of the year......Page 152
Lesson M9 – Strings and things (using the language of length)......Page 159
Lesson M10 – Addition and subtraction, using money......Page 164
Part III: Shape......Page 172
Introduction to Shape......Page 174
Lesson S1 – Make a shape......Page 176
Lesson S2 – The feely box......Page 178
Lesson S3 – Catch the shape......Page 180
Lesson S4 – Roll the shapes......Page 182
Lesson S5 – 3D shapes in our lives......Page 185
Lesson S6 – Shapes in the supermarket......Page 188
Lesson S7 – Stacking shelves......Page 191
Lesson S8 – Investigating nets: using 2D and 3D shapes......Page 193
Lesson S9 – Measuring right angles......Page 197
