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Suggested Transactional
Key Concepts Learning Outcomes
Processes
Natural Numbers and Whole
Numbers • Provide opportunities to children
• Natural numbers to understand that whole numbers
• Whole numbers are extension of natural numbers
• Properties of numbers with the number zero included
(commutative, associative, in it
distributive, additive identity, • Provide children opportunities
multiplicative identity) to perform operations of natural
• Number line numbers with zero and to form
rules like when zero is added to
• Seeing patterns, identifying and any number or subtracted from
formulating rules for operations any number the result is the same
on numbers number
• Conducting the activity to
conclude that a ÷ 0 is not defined.
For example, a/0 is a number
whose product with zero is a,
which never exist if a is non-zero
Negative Numbers and Integers
• Need for negative numbers • Conducting activities in the
• Connection of negative numbers classes in groups of 4–5 children
in daily life to represent opposite situations
• Representation of negative by numbers like moving up and
numbers on number line down from a reference point,
paying and getting some amount
• Ordering of negative numbers, etc.
Integers • Asking children to extend the
• Identification of integers on the number line to represent negative
number line numbers and zero along with
• Operation of addition and natural numbers and let them
subtraction of integers realise that corresponding to
• Addition and subtraction of every positive numbers there is a
integers on the number line negative number and vice versa
• Comparison of integers, ordering
of integers
Sets
• Idea of sets • Taking examples from children’s
• Representation of sets context for introducing the idea of
• Types of sets: Finite/infinite and set
empty • Letting children work out their
• Cardinality of a set own definitions and rules to work
with sets as specific collections
like classifying sets as finite/
infinite and empty
