PRACTICAL CALCULATIONS CONCRETE SITUATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATIONS, N°3

3rd and 4th grade primary

Practical Calculations in CE2 is the third file in a series that aims to train students in cycle 2 to solve problems using a method that piques their interest and is well-structured in terms of content to promote learning.

The topics chosen for these problems are meaningful and correspond to the children's interests: nature, animals, sports, the human body, solidarity, sustainable development, agriculture, books, transportation, etc. The situations covered are close to the children's experiences. They are made even more concrete by carefully chosen explicit illustrations. This allows them to fully understand the situation in order to facilitate reasoning.

The file includes 81 exercises: it is therefore possible to have two or three exercises worked on per week. The sheets often include two exercises (to apply the reasoning model again once the first problem has been solved), supplemented by a page of help that the teacher will choose to give to students who need it.

Ultimately, the educational objective pursued in this work and its approach is to help each student realize what the number represents. The creation of these sheets helps to give them useful references throughout life: the size of a child, an adult, an animal at several stages of its life, a monument; the price, size or weight of everyday objects, the duration of pieces of music...

"Under the pretext of doing math, I mainly aim to transmit a very rich culture to each student." Francine Moyne, teacher-author.

Format 21 x 29.7 cm, 122 pages, 81 exercises.