Instructive Games and Toys F-6 Resource

This resource connects to the rich context Instructive games and toys and related content elaborations in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander instructive games and toys provide a valuable teaching/learning context to increase students’ understanding of mathematics concepts such as investigating and assigning probabilities that events will occur based on the game Weme from the Walbiri People of Central Australia.

By learning mathematics through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander instructive games and toys, students are given the opportunity to develop knowledge and conceptual understanding and to make sense of their world. Students can also develop pride and respect for the cultural heritage of such games both from the past and the present, and how they are an important part of Australia’s cultural, social and historical record and an important aspect of the cultural heritage and cultural expressions of Australia (Edwards, 2012, p. 20).

The resource is for year levels Foundation – Year 3 and Years 5-6 and includes:

• A Unit of Learning
• Classroom Power Point presentations for each of the year levels
• Instructive games and toys Teacher Background Information.

This classroom resource was developed by Vida Heaslip, a Primary Years teacher in Adelaide, with the support of ATSIMA’s Dr Caty Morris.