Data handling – Sorting and Classifying

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Jeanelle Attard Primary Maths Support Team

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Lesson Duration:

45 mins.

What should you expect from this lesson?

This lesson provides young mathematicians with an opportunity to solve a given problem by sorting, classifying and organising information in simple ways. Furthermore, they will be given the opportunity to discuss and explain results. During this lesson children will sort different buttons into distinct categories such as shapes, colours, size and number of holes. Adults are encouraged to model sorting of objects according to criteria, then prompt children to identify criteria for sorting butt

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How to carry out this lesson at home:

Step 1: Watch the read-aloud story ‘The Button Box’ (featured video)

For the follow-up activity, children can either use a handful of real buttons, cut out buttons (click HERE) or else make playdough buttons of different shapes and colours with 2 or 4 holes in them.

Step 2: Following the story, tell your child that today you are going to sort buttons in sets. Explain to your child what is meant by sorting (putting things which are alike together).

Children are encouraged to look closely at the buttons and decide how to sort buttons in groups according to a particular attribute (shape, size, colour, number of holes). Children need to justify their decision and label their sets.

Step 3: Prompt children to keep on sorting buttons using different criteria all the time.

Step 4: Carry out any of the online sorting games Click here 

All the resources you need to carry out this lesson at home:

There are 4 Resources for this lesson

  image .jpg | download
  Buttons .pdf | download
  sort by colour.jpg.jpg | download
  sort by shape.jpg.jpg | download

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