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Access

Show, draw, type, sign, use your usual communication or direct an agreeing helper. Choose quiet/private work, switch a route, pause, pass or finish. One useful part is enough. A helper can read the exact words or scribe your choices; supplying an operation, count, regrouping or reason is mathematical help and is named. No speed, neatness, speech, handling or device requirement.

Adult model

398 + 267 = 400 + 267 − 2 = 665. We added two extra in the friendly-number step, so remove two from 667. About 400 + 300 = 700 is an estimate, not this exact calculation.

Child direction

Would moving to a nearby round number make this job easier? Pick one route. Show what the numbers mean, try a way, then check one result. You can stop after a useful part.

Common tangle

the adjustment goes the wrong way; check the roles and equivalent quantities, rather than memorising a printed answer.

Day

53

Different guided practice

For fictional prompt cards, 497 + 186 = 500 + 186 − 3 = 683. Contrast the wrong 686: it counts the three extra cards. Invite a different check: 497 + 180 + 6.

Check and teach the entry relationship

Ask why 39 + 12 can be worked as 40 + 12 − 1. Model with a labelled extra mark if needed. Teach the compensation before rounding two large inputs.

Hook

Would moving to a nearby round number make this job easier?

Materials

Broad paper, labelled place-value/part-whole/number-line alternatives as suitable; optional familiar safe counters; usual communication. No hundreds of loose marks, purchases or physical handling required. Keep adult model and own work separate.

Next ordinary teaching

If the adjustment goes the wrong way, compare 19 + 6 with 20 + 6 − 1 using marks. Guide 29 + 14, then invite 49 + 17 = 66.

Complete fictional source

An invented sticker design has 398 blue stickers and 267 plain stickers. Find the exact total.

One own invitation

Work 299 + 146 exactly using a friendly number, and name the adjustment.

Partial curriculum opportunity

  1. AC9M4N06

  2. AC9M4N07 partial

Purpose

Use exact compensation and distinguish it from estimation.

Routes

Access

Show, draw, type, sign, use your usual communication or direct an agreeing helper. Choose quiet/private work, switch a route, pause, pass or finish. One useful part is enough. A helper can read the exact words or scribe your choices; supplying an operation, count, regrouping or reason is mathematical help and is named. No speed, neatness, speech, handling or device requirement.

Complete task

An invented puzzle tray joins 49 and 27 pieces. Use fifty carefully.

Entry or access

Draw the one added extra separately.

Id

A

Title

Puzzle pieces

After own work: adult practice possibility

76: 50 + 27 − 1.

Access

Show, draw, type, sign, use your usual communication or direct an agreeing helper. Choose quiet/private work, switch a route, pause, pass or finish. One useful part is enough. A helper can read the exact words or scribe your choices; supplying an operation, count, regrouping or reason is mathematical help and is named. No speed, neatness, speech, handling or device requirement.

Complete task

Find 398 + 267 and compare compensation with chunks.

Entry or access

Explain which quantity was changed.

Id

B

Title

Sticker plan

After own work: adult practice possibility

665 exactly; 700 is a coarse estimate.

Access

Show, draw, type, sign, use your usual communication or direct an agreeing helper. Choose quiet/private work, switch a route, pause, pass or finish. One useful part is enough. A helper can read the exact words or scribe your choices; supplying an operation, count, regrouping or reason is mathematical help and is named. No speed, neatness, speech, handling or device requirement.

Complete task

An imaginary exhibit game counts 1998 + 367 slips. Compare exact compensation and a nearest-hundred estimate.

Entry or access

This fictional game is not a museum programme or attendance fact.

Id

C

Title

Museum-copy game

After own work: adult practice possibility

2365 exact; 2000 + 400 ≈ 2400, 35 above exact.

Session stages

Instruction

Would moving to a nearby round number make this job easier? Read the source. Ask what the numbers count and the wanted quantity. Ask why 39 + 12 can be worked as 40 + 12 − 1. Model with a labelled extra mark if needed. Teach the compensation before rounding two large inputs.

Minutes suggestion

5

Stage

Meet the job

Instruction

398 + 267 = 400 + 267 − 2 = 665. We added two extra in the friendly-number step, so remove two from 667. About 400 + 300 = 700 is an estimate, not this exact calculation. Show on separate adult paper. Pause after one transformation; invite explanation before showing the next.

Minutes suggestion

10

Stage

Teach one relationship

Instruction

For fictional prompt cards, 497 + 186 = 500 + 186 − 3 = 683. Contrast the wrong 686: it counts the three extra cards. Invite a different check: 497 + 180 + 6. Offer one complete route below, not all three as a quota. Let the learner select a representation and pause or switch.

Minutes suggestion

15

Stage

Guide then choose

Instruction

Work 299 + 146 exactly using a friendly number, and name the adjustment. Receive an available response before staff key. If the adjustment goes the wrong way, compare 19 + 6 with 20 + 6 − 1 using marks. Guide 29 + 14, then invite 49 + 17 = 66.

Minutes suggestion

5

Stage

Receive and choose tomorrow

What to look for

The nearby number, compensating adjustment and exact result are linked; rounding alone is not an exact proof.

After own work: staff possibility

445: 300 + 146 − 1; the added extra one is removed.

Status

Proposed 35-minute shape, unpiloted and freely reorderable; resource day not school calendar requirement.

Title

Borrow a friendly number, then put it back

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