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Student Responses on Addition Concepts

The document describes an assessment of a student's understanding of addition through a series of questions about adding small numbers of objects or counters. The student is able to correctly count and add the total numbers when shown physical objects but is unable to write out or solve the symbolic addition problem of 5 + 4 = without a model. The assessment shows the student's language and understanding is still at a concrete modeling stage rather than ready for symbolic representation of addition.

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Student Responses on Addition Concepts

The document describes an assessment of a student's understanding of addition through a series of questions about adding small numbers of objects or counters. The student is able to correctly count and add the total numbers when shown physical objects but is unable to write out or solve the symbolic addition problem of 5 + 4 = without a model. The assessment shows the student's language and understanding is still at a concrete modeling stage rather than ready for symbolic representation of addition.

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Student B

Questions Responses
Do you like maths? I like math, its about numbers.
Can you tell me what you know about addition? Like maths, like plusing numbers together?
Student required prompting. Well, its like
when you plus numbers and find out how
many altogether.
When working out the answer to an addition Three
sum, what number would I start with?

2 3
Why would you start with ‘said number’? (3) Because it’s the first number.
Read addition story - Children’s language stage Student places 5 animals in first pen, and 2
I am going to tell you a story about Farmer Jo animals in another.
and his animals, I would like you to use this Points and says: One, two, three, four, five,
mat (below) to show me how you would find six, seven.
the answer.
Farmer Jo had 5 animals in one pen (point to
pen) and 2 animals in another (point to pen).
He moved all the animals to the barn to feed
them, how many animals altogether (point to
barn)?

How did you work that out? I counted all the animals
Materials language Stage – without addition Student places the four counters in front of
mat: himself and counts each counter.
Then places three more counters down in
I have 4 counters and my friend has 3 more another pile and counts each counter.
counters. How many counters altogether?
Then student counts each counter
individually
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
How did you work this out? I count mine and my friends.
Mathematics Language stage: Modelled using student looks at counters placed on table
counters and says: four add four.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Mrs Smith gives me 4 counters and asks me to
add four more counters. What is the total
number of counters I have?

Can you describe to me how you worked this The teacher gave me 4 counters and I
out? counted four more.
Symbolic Language Stage: I don’t know how to do that
Can you write this down and show me how you
work it out? Five add four equals.

5+4=

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