Comparing Cards for EDX1280

1. KYLIE PEARSON
Student Number 0061044470
COMPARING CARDS
EDX 1280 - FOUNDATIONS OF NUMERACY

2. The following presentation is describing how to use the set of Comparing Cards
designed for Foundations of Numeracy EDX1280 Semester 1 2015.
The Comparing cards are designed to introduce the concept of comparing to Foundation level students
using materials language stage of the Mathematics Language Model.
The thinking strategies of more than or less than and ordering numbers are established during this
activity, in correspondence with The Australian Curriculum Number and Algebra content strand and
content description ACMNA289 - Compare, order and make correspondences between collections,
initially to 20, and explain reasoning .
The use of the Caldwell Patter for positioning the images on the cards is to encourage students to make
pictures in their minds to help identify the small collections for comparison (Queensland Studies
Authority, 2013).

3. Today we are going to
learn about numbers
that are more or less.

4. (Child’s name), please choose a
card. How many owls do you see
on the card? How can we find
out? That’s right, let’s count.
(Child’s name), can you please
choose a card. How many owls
on your card? That’s right, count
to find out.

5. Lets look at the first card.
Who thinks this card has MORE owls?
Who thinks it has LESS ?
Lets look at this card.
Who thinks this card has MORE owls?
Who thinks it has LESS?

6. How can we tell if there is more of
something?
Yes, the group looks bigger, or is a
bigger amount.
How can we tell is there is less?
Yes the group looks smaller. We can
count to check too.
(Child’s name), which card do you
think has MORE owls ?
Why? Yes, there is a bigger group.
Lets count to make sure.

7. One, two three, four, five, six, seven.
That’s right, there are seven owls in this
group.
One, two.
Yes, there are two owls in this group.
So which card has MORE? Yes the first card.
Which is MORE? Seven or two? (point to
respective cards.)
That’s right seven is more than 2.
Let’s try another one.
Repeat this process with two different
students and two different cards until all
students have had a turn.

8. Now we will learn about what
comes JUST BEFORE and JUST
AFTER.
Which card has the SMALLEST
amount of owls? That’s right.
Lets put the one card FIRST.
Which number comes JUST
AFTER one? That’s it…..two.
Let’s put two NEXT.
(Continue until all cards are in
order on the table. )

9. I wonder what comes JUST AFTER 4?
(Locate the four card and discuss how the
five card comes JUST AFTER it.)
I wonder what comes JUST BEFORE 8?
(Locate the eight card and discuss how
seven comes JUST BEFORE eight.)

10. Finish by putting all cards
back in order and counting
from LEAST to MOST.