Step #5 and Step #6 are made of Task Cards challenging students to explore Finding all Possibilities with dominoes. It will help to have sets of Dominoes for students to use. Here is a link to a set that you can download and print.
Please note: You do not have to use the full set of double six dominoes. If you are working with Year 1, you might like to consider which task cards to use and only share dominoes up to the double four as your set.
Before starting these activities, show the image below to your students on the IWB and let them know that just because a Task Card has a certain number of empty domino frames, that doesn’t necessarily mean that there are that many possibilities to find.
Step #5: Welcome to The Domino District
- 30 mins (Guide only. Please take the time that suits your students and your timetable.)
- Printed task cards and design task cards
- Set of dominos (You might use the double six set, or choose to only go up to the double four dominoes for your class.)
Task Cards A: Here are a selection of Task Cards for your students. Select and share them appropriately.
The Design Task (Task Card 7) lets students design their own domino task for a partner to solve. For their task, students might draw the dominoes onto the activity page to match the question, or they might like to use actual dominoes and place them in a group on a desk.
Step #6: Partner Task Cards and Challenge Cards
- 30 mins (Guide only. Please take the time that suits your students and your timetable.)
- Printed task cards and challenge cards for your extension students
- Set of dominos (You might use the double six set, or choose to only go up to the double four dominoes for your class.)
Task Cards B:The second set of Domino Task Cards is designed for students to solve with a partner, and to agree together that they have found all the possible dominoes that can belong to a set.
Challenge Cards: Look through the Challenge Cards and select different challenges for different students as you see fit. They are more challenging that some of the earlier task. Solving them initially as a class or in small groups might be a way to support students to navigate the task.
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