Teaching with Two-Colour Counters by La Salle Education
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Teaching with Two-Colour Counters


Two-colour counters are an incredibly versatile manipulative, which is great as they are also one of the cheapest!

In this course you will learn how to start getting the most out of this powerful and versatile manipulative, with tried and tested ‘low floor, high ceiling’ activities to use in the classroom, covering topics such as number, algebra, proof and probability.
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Contents

Introduction
Course Introduction
2 mins
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Mathematical Modelling
Hotel Doors Problem
4 mins
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Hotel Doors - Solution up to 12th door
3 mins
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Hotel Doors - Generalising to n doors
5 mins
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Task - Hotel Doors
112 KB
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Task - Hotel Doors - Solutions
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Sequences
Linear nth Term
3 mins
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Quadratic nth Term
5 mins
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nth term rule for a triangluar number
3 mins
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Task - Sequences
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Task - Sequences - Solutions
189 KB
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Directed Number
Zero Pairs
2 mins
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Addition with directed number
3 mins
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Additions - Moving from the counters
3 mins
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Subtraction with directed number
5 mins
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Task - Directed Number
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Task - Directed Number - Solutions
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Visual Proofs
Fibonacci - 1st + 5th = 3(3rd)
5 mins
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Sum of odd integers 1 to n is a square
3 mins
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Consecutive triangular numbers sums to a square
2 mins
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Probability
Venn Diagrams
5 mins
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Replace or not repace
5 mins
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Simpson's Paradox
3 mins
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Average and Range
The concept of the mean
2 mins
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Fixing towers - mean 4, mode 3
2 mins
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Fixing towers - mean 3, range 4
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Fixing towers - mean 3, range 4, median 3
3 mins
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A Final Investigation
Frogs and Toads
4 mins
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Task - Frogs and Toads
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Task - Frogs and Toads - Solutions
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Course Summary
1 min
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