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EDU1000 Maths Folio Assignment 2022

   

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A3: Maths Folio
EDU10003
Assignment 3: Math Folio
Name:
Swinburne Online University
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A3: Maths Folio
Assignment 3: Folio template
Maths Concept: Measurement & Geometry – Location and Transformation
Selected levels: Foundation Year, Year 1 and Year 2

A3: Maths Folio
Template 1
Year level: Foundation Year
Content descriptor
Select one content descriptor to
focus on in each level that
directly correlates to your concept
and shows a clear progression.
Foundation Year , Measurement and Geometry
Location and Transformation ACMMG010: “Describe position and movement”
(The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2017, version 8.3)
Curriculum connections
Description of how the concept is
addressed, and how it progresses
throughout each level.
In this year, the mathematical concepts presented in measurement and geometry is aimed at description of
movement and position. The frequently used words of direction and location are well interpreted. These words
include near, between, towards, forward, next to. Further a simple direction is provided and followed in guiding
someone around a path having an obstacle. This should be done by the whole class in groups of two; in which
one takes the guiding role as the other walks and vice-versa.
For literacy skills, the students should be able to comprehend the vocabulary of the learning area. They should be
able to compose texts such as multimodal area texts, visual texts, written and spoken texts. Using spatial
reasoning in numeracy, the children should develop the capability of interpreting diagrams and maps.
Resource
Include the name of the resource,
evidence of the resource and a
brief description.
The resource used is a YouTube video obtained from the URL: https://youtu.be/BCUG-uBdxIM titled “Math:
Describing Positions”

A3: Maths Folio
Fig1.1: Describing Positions
The instructor, in this video, pictorially describes various terms of location using a bird and box as the case study.
She introduces the young students to what is meant by terms like below, above, next to as relative position of
objects. The bird enters inside the box to show the ‘in’ description. The bird then goes on top of the box to to
justify the meaning of ‘above’. It then goes on the sides of the box to illustrate what ‘next to’ mean and under the
box to justify the ‘below’ concept.
Another resource used is a YouTube video of URL: https://youtu.be/8F0NYBBKczM in which the instructor
now applies these instructions to word problems. The instructor asks for the different positions of the animals in
form of a composed song. Below is the screenshot:

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