Right menu

View Basket View basket: 0 items

Featured resource

Home > Topdrawer > Reasoning > Big ideas > Same and different > Imagining missing elements

Default object view. Click to create a custom template, Node ID: 12443, Object ID: 20165

Imagining missing elements

Imagining missing elements

An important aspect of reasoning in mathematics is to find missing elements.

Missing elements may be numbers, shapes, variables or other mathematical objects.

They are used to:

  • balance or solve equations
  • predict terms in number sequences or series and sequences
  • complete patterns, tables and arrays
  • solve problems.

Mathematical reasoning is needed to describe and identify missing elements.

Missing elements may be used in teaching and assessment. The activity Covered by H is easy to adapt for all year levels.

Yes

Yes

Name Class Section
Document Covered by H Folder 17
Document Foundation Year: Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving... Infobox 3
Document Year 1: Develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from z... Infobox 3
Document Year 2: Describe patterns with numbers and identify missing elements Infobox 3
Document Year 5: Describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers resulting from addition and subtraction Infobox 3
Document Year 6: Continue and create sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Describe the rule used to create the sequence Infobox 3
Document Year 7: Create algebraic expressions and evaluate them by substituting a given value for each variable Infobox 3
Document Source Infobox 3