Real-Life Math Activities: Moving from Mathematics Instruction to Numeracy Development

Name: Doris Gordon

School: Clairmont Community School

Counting Daily Milk Orders

Activity

Math inquiry questions

Related math concept

Transferring class milk

orders to main sheet

How many tally marks for each class?

Numerals from 1-20

Transferring tally marks to numerals
Counting

Graph the total for

each class

Show amounts for

chocolate milk and
white milk

Counting out actual milk

cartons

What day is it? (for days of the week for orders)

Days of the week, calendar

How many for class 1A? etc

Measurement, graphing

What colour is 1A? (each class has a different colour on the

graph

Colours, matching

How many more chocolate?

counting

How many more chocolate than white for 1A?

Counting, addition, subtraction

How many milk do you think 1A will order tomorrow?

Predicting

How many chocolate milk do we need? ( look at total

numerals and transfer to actual milk)

Counting,

What will the plants look like?

sequencing