In a choice of designs, The Addition Mat is ideal for individual practice, group activities and interactive learning stations. It is perfect for concrete mathematics activities, allowing students to utilise manipulatives such as counters, Unifix or MAB blocks to gain a greater understanding of the addition process and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Represent practical situations involving addition, subtraction and quantification with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies
Represent practical situations to model addition and sharing
Describes mathematical situations using everyday language, actions, materials and informal recordings
Uses objects, actions, technology and/or trial and error to explore mathematical problems
Uses concrete materials and/or pictorial representations to support conclusions
Combines, separates and compares collections of objects, describes using everyday language, and records using informal methods
Reasons about number relations to model addition and subtraction by combining and separating, and comparing collections