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The domain “Acquiring the first mathematical tools” like other domains, contributes to the structuring of thought. Through play, manipulation of objects and problem solving, it allows students "to understand and use numbers, recognize shapes and organize collections of objects according to different criteria, categories , properties (shape, size: length, mass, capacity – color, use, function)”.

Resources for the modified program in June 2021

The academic sites offer resources that illustrate the modified program in 2021. A non-exhaustive selection is offered below. In the form of videos and support documents, you will find real class situations and examples of implementations illustrating the objectives of the program: "Using the number to solve problems" and "Using the number to designate a rank, a position ". Examples of learning modalities are also presented.

Using numbers to solve problems

“From the small section and throughout cycle 1, the teacher very frequently proposes concrete problem situations in which the answer is not immediately available to the pupils. The situations proposed are constructed in such a way as to make the number appear useful for anticipating the result of an action on quantities (increase, decrease, meeting, distribution, sharing) or on positions (movements forwards or backwards). »

Resources of the DSDEN of the Gold Coast - IEN and CPC Maternal Mission

Use the number to designate a rank, a position

"To remember the rank and position of the objects (third bead, fifth hoop), the children must define a starting point (origin), a direction of reading, a direction of travel, that is to say, give an order. »

The following videos illustrate a sequence on ordinality: the number as memory of the position, in Grande section class.

Resources of the DSDEN of Gard, Aude, Hérault, Lozère and Pyrénées Orientales – IEN and CPC Maternal mission

Resources of the Tarn DSDEN - IEN and CPC maternal mission

A school that organizes specific learning methods

Resources of the DSDEN of Gard, Aude, Hérault, Lozère and Pyrénées Orientales – IEN and CPC Maternal mission

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