Concentration (double facts)

Concentration (doubles facts) is a thinking mathematically context for practise focused on building fluency with representations of double facts.

Syllabus

Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2022) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.

Outcomes

Stage 1

MAO-WM-01
MA1-CSQ-01
MA1-FG-01
MA1-RWN-01
MA1-RWN-02

Collect resources

You will need:

doubles facts cards (PDF 590 KB)
scissors.

Instructions

To set up a game of concentration (also known as memory or pairs), shuffle the cards and then place each card face down.
Each player takes a turn by turning two cards over.
If the cards match, then the player picks up the cards and keeps them.
If they don't match, the player turns the cards back over.

Doubles fill

Stage 1 – a thinking mathematically context for practice focused on developing fluency with double facts.

Go fish (collecting and solving doubles)

Stage 1 – a thinking mathematically context for practise resource focused on using and solving doubles facts.

Double or halve? – Stage 1

Stage 1 – a thinking mathematically context for practise resource, focused on using doubling and halving to reach a target number.

Sorting dominoes

Stage 1 – a thinking mathematically targeted teaching opportunity focused on investigating doubles and near doubles using dominoes.

Category:

Combining and separating quantities
Forming groups
Mathematics (2022)
Representing whole numbers
Stage 1

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