Patterns in the hundreds chart
Down a column every number grows by ten; along a row, by one. Filling in missing numbers makes children use those patterns instead of counting from 1 every time.More counting
Try skip counting and number lines.CAPS links
- Grade 1Counts forwards and backwards in ones from any number between 0 and 100, and reads number symbols to 100.
- Skip countingIn Grade 1, counts forwards in 2s, 5s and 10s to 100, which the skip counting chart shows.
- Grade 2Works with numbers to 200; CAPS lists 1–100 and 101–200 number grid posters as classroom resources.
CAPS calls this chart a number grid or 100 chart. Its teaching notes use it for counting while the teacher points, finding patterns by colouring or circling numbers, and filling in a grid where the counting sequence has been covered up.
In CAPS, Grade R counts to 10, Grade 1 works to 100 and Grade 2 to 200. This maker stops at 120, so for Grade 2 use the 1 to 100 chart for patterns, and a second wall grid for 101 to 200.
Summarised in our own words from the DBE’s Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for Mathematics, Foundation Phase (2011).
