Appendix 1
LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: ONE Time: Date: MAY 29 Students’ Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: MATHEMATICS - Knowledge of how to use illustrations and a

number chart to solve subtraction sums

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum

NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
Number and Place Value
Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction
problems using a range of strategies including counting
on, partitioning and rearranging parts (ACMNA015)

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Use a number line to correctly solve subtraction sums

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

- Printed worksheets - Activities range across three levels, level one
- PowerPoint for students who excel in Mathematics, level
two for students who meet the standard for
year one in Mathematics and level 3 for
students who are below standard in
Mathematics

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

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Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
15 - Students are seated on the mat and are ready to begin the lesson
minutes
- Before the lesson begins, the teacher tells the students they are going
to play a quick game called stand up / sit down
- Students are told that they will be given a number e.g. 10, and when
that number is called out, they stand up, and if its not they stay sitting.
The trick is that the teacher can say things such as 13 – 3 or 6 + 4 to
equal the number. Another variation that can be played is to stand if
the number is more than 5 and stay sitting if it is less than five
- The class is told that today they will be completing module 5 lesson 5
which is on subtraction
- WALT (We are learning to) – Solve subtraction sums
WILF (What I’m looking for) – Use a number line to correctly solve PowerPoint
subtraction sums
- The teacher refers to the sum on the PowerPoint e.g. 10 – 6, and the
number line. The teacher asks the class what they think the first thing
they do when solving the sum (write the biggest number on the right
side of the number line), then they count backward from 10 six times
until the answer is reached, the teacher models this. The teacher
refers to the sum on the PowerPoint e.g. 24 – 12 and asks the class if
they would solve this sum differently than the previous sum. Students
are reminded of when they used the number line for addition and if
the number had a tens, they would count by the number of tens then
ones, the teacher models this

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

- The teacher explains what each level will be doing in the lesson

- Level 1’s – Will be completing a worksheet where they are solving

subtraction sums of numbers up to 100, taking away double-digit
numbers

- Level 2’s – Will be completing a worksheet where they are solving

subtractions sums of numbers up to 100, taking away double-digit
numbers (only up to 15)

- Level 3’s – Will be completing a worksheet where they are solving

subtractions sums of numbers up to 30.

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- Once the instructions on what each level will be doing during the
lesson is given, the level ones and twos are sent to their desks and
level threes are to collect their workbooks and sit on the mat with Mrs
Scorda

- For this lesson, the teacher will be focusing their attention mainly on
the level ones and twos, while Mrs Scorda spends the lesson helping
the level threes, the teacher will circulate the classroom and help
students from the different levels and conduct over the shoulder
marking when they can

- Once the students have completed their activity, the students are
asked to glue their worksheets into their Mathematics book, then
return their workbooks to where they are stored and to sit on the mat

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

- To review the lesson the teacher can play subtraction duel with the
students, two people from each level are called to the front of the
class, a subtraction sum is read out and whoever answers the sum
correctly first wins

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

- Students are to stay seated on the mat and await further instructions

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)

- A rubric will be stapled into the students Mathematics workbooks and

the teacher is to mark their work and highlight whether the students
understanding of number patterns is still developing, developed or
highly developed