Learning Path
Exploring Data with Infant classes Learning Path
By PDST
This learning path, suitable for infants, provides opportunities for learners to explore data in the world around them.
4 resources in this Learning Path
1
Three Block Towers - Teacher Guide to Activity
https://nrich.maths.org/137 Added: 06 Oct 2017 Contributor: PDST Resource type:Nrich problem solving activity. Link explains the activity, provides worksheets for 3 blocks and 4 blocks challenge and a poster for the problem solving challenge.
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- Mathematics
Strand: Early Maths Activities
Strand unit: Classifying
Suggestions for use: Problem for Maths Week. Take pictures of the problem solving process and submit the PDST - Scoilnet Padlet.
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Comparing & Ordering
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- use the language of ordinal number: first, last
- use the language of ordinal number: first, second, third, last
Strand: Algebra
2
Sorting Stars Worksheet
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/19495/19218.pptx Added: 11 Oct 2016 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Guide/notesWorksheet activity where pupils need to sort the stars based on their size and then their colour from big to small and red to blue. Worksheets are in PowerPoint format and should be printed in colour.
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- Mathematics
Strand: Early Maths Activities
Strand unit: Classifying
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- classify objects on the basis of one attribute, such as colour, shape, texture or size
- identify the complement of a set (i.e. elements not in a set)
Suggestions for use: Teacher need to print worksheets in colour prior to class and cut the stars out. Laminate for future use.
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Sorting Activities - PDST Demonstration (Video)
https://vimeopro.com/user8605896/pdst-numeracy-primary/video/52573554 Added: 07 Oct 2016 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Audio / VideoVideos showing good practice in numeracy in Irish primary schools by PDST Numeracy. The video looks at activities in sorting using Ready, Set, Go - Maths programme.
View full descriptionHow it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Early Maths Activities
Strand unit: Ordering
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- order sets without counting
Suggestions for use: Teachers can use the video as a reference to carrying out activities on ordering.
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Comparing & Ordering
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- order sets of objects by number
Suggestions for use: Teachers can use the video as a reference to carrying out activities on ordering.
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PDST Data & Chance Handbook for Primary Schools
https://www.pdst.ie/sites/default/files/PDST%20Data%20Manual.pdf Added: 31 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesThe following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
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Strand: Data
Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- represent and interpret data in two, three or four rows or columns using real objects, models and pictures
- represent, read and interpret simple block graphs
- represent, read and interpret simple tables and charts (pictograms)
- sort and classify objects by two and three criteria
- sort and classify objects by two and three criteria
Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs, bar charts and bar-line graphs incorporating the scales 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, and 1:100
- read and interpret bar-line graphs and simple pie charts
- read and interpret tables, pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
- use data sets to solve and complete practical tasks and problems
Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Chance
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify and record outcomes of simple random processes
- order events in terms of likelihood of occurrence
- use vocabulary of uncertainty and chance: chance, likely, unlikely, never, definitely
- use vocabulary of uncertainty and chance: possible, impossible, might, certain, not sure
Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Chance
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- construct and use frequency charts and tables
- estimate the likelihood of occurrence of events; order on a scale from 0 to 100%, 0 to 1
- estimate the likelihood of occurrence of events
- identify and list all possible outcomes of simple random processes
Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, single and multiple bar charts and simple pie charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pie charts and trend graphs
- compile and use simple data sets
- explore and calculate averages of simple data sets
- read and interpret pictograms, single and multiple bar charts, and pie charts
- read and interpret trend graphs and pie charts
- use data sets to solve problems
- use data sets to solve problems
Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.
