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TEACHING PLANS FOR 2024
MATHEMATICS – TERM 3 (2024)
GRADE 4
TOPICS (CONCEPTS AND SKILLS) DBE WORKBOOK PAGES
COMMON FRACTIONS: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xviii – xix
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 98 & 99; 103
Describing and ordering fractions
Activity 1 – 4
Compare and order common fractions of
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 20
different denominators (halves, thirds, quarters,
fifths, sixths, sevenths, eighths) Activity 1 – 2
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 128 & 129
Activity 1 – 4
Describe and compare common fractions in Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 98 & 99; 100
diagram form.
Activity 1 – 4
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 20
Activity 1 – 3
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 128 & 129
Activity 1 – 4
Calculations with fractions Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xx – xxi
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 100 & 101;
Recognize, describe and use the
equivalence of division and fractions 104 & 105
Activity 1 – 2
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 132 & 133
Activity 1 – 5
Addition of common fractions with same Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 108 & 109
denominators.
Activity 1 – 4
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 21 – 25
Activity select activities
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 136; 138
Activity (how fast can you complete)
Solving problems Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 100 & 101;
107
Solve problems in contexts involving fractions,
including grouping and equal sharing. Activity 1 – 2
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 26 & 27
Activity 1 – 3
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 136 – 139
Activity 1
Equivalent forms Refer to your textbook
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 106 & 107
Recognize and use equivalent forms of
common fractions (denominators which are Activity 1 – 3
multiples of each other)
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 14 - 19
Activity select activities
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 135
Activity 4
TIME: Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 50 - 53
Reading time and time instruments
Activity 1 – 5
Read, tell and write time in 12-hour and 24-hour
formats on both analogue and digital
instruments in:
‒ hours
‒ minutes More activities: Refer to your textbook
‒ seconds
Instruments include clocks and watches Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 50 - 53
Activity 1 – 5
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Reading calendars Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 55 – 57
Activity 3, 1 – 3
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Calculations and problem solving time include: Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 54; 56 – 57
problems in contexts involving time
Activity 1 – 3
calculation of the number of days between any
two dates within the same or consecutive years
calculation of time intervals where time is given More activities: Refer to your textbook
in minutes or hours only
LENGTH: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxv
Practical measuring Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 110 – 113
Activity select activities
Estimate and practically measure 2-D shapes
and 3-D objects using measuring instruments
such as:
‒ rulers
‒ metre sticks
‒ tape measures
More activities: Refer to your textbook
‒ trundle wheels
Record, compare and order lengths of shapes Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 110 – 113
and objects in millimetres (mm), centimetres
Activity select activities
(cm), metres (m), kilometres (km)
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Calculations and problem-solving Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 115
Activity (Distance)
Solve problems in contexts involving length
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Convert between Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 114 – 115
‒ millimetres (mm) and centimetres (cm),
Activity 1 – 7
‒ centimetres (cm) and metres (m)
‒ metres (m) and kilometres (km)
Conversions limited to whole numbers and
common fractions
PROPERTIES OF 2D SHAPES: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxx
Range of shapes
Activity 1, 3 a & b
Recognize, visualize and name 2-D shapes in
the Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 64 – 65
environment and geometric setting, focusing on
Activity 2 & 5
regular and irregular polygons - triangles,
squares, rectangles, other quadrilaterals, Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 46 – 47; 49
pentagons, hexagons, heptagons
Activity 1; 5; 2; 3
circles
Characteristics of shapes Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 64 – 65;
Describe, sort and compare 2-D shapes in
Activity 1, 2 & 5;
terms of:
‒ straight and curved sides Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 46 – 47; 48;
‒ number of sides
51
Activity 2; 5; 1; 8; 9
Further activities Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 64 – 67
Draw 2-D shapes on grid paper
Activity 1, 3, 6, 7 – 9
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 46 – 51
Activity select activities
GRADE 5
TOPICS (CONCEPTS AND SKILLS) DBE WORKBOOK PAGES
COMMON FRACTIONS: Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 105; 113
Activity 4 & 4
Describing and ordering fractions:
Count forwards and backwards in fractions Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 2 – 3
Activity 1 – 4
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 116 – 117
Activity 1 – 5
Compare and order common fractions to at Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxix
least twelfths
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 104 – 107;
113
Activity select activities
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 4 – 7
Activity select activities
Calculations with fractions: Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 114
Addition and subtraction of common fractions
Activity 1 – 4
with same denominator
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 10 – 11
Activity 1 – 2
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 118 - 119
Activity 1 – 4
Addition and subtraction of mixed numbers Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 115
fractions of whole numbers
Activity 5
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 12 – 15
Activity 1 – 2;
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 120 - 121
Activity 5 – 8
Fractions of whole which result in whole Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 16 – 17
numbers
Activity 1 – 2
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 122 - 125
Activity 1 – 5
Recognise, describe and use the equivalence Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxviii
of division and fractions
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 108 - 111,
Activity 1; 1 – 2
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 16 - 17
Activity 1 – 3
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 122 - 125
Activity 1 – 5
Solving problems Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxx – xxxi
Solve problems in contexts involving common
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 108 – 109
fractions, including grouping and sharing
Activity 1
Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 18 – 19
Activity 1 – 4
Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 126 – 133
Activity select activities
Equivalent forms: Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 106 - 107
Recognize and use equivalent forms of
Activity 1; 5
common fractions with denominators which are
multiples of each other Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 4 – 9
Activity Select activities
LENGTH: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxxiv
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 116 – 117
Practical measuring
Estimate and practically measure 2-D shapes Activity 1 – 2
and 3-D objects using measuring instruments
such as:
‒ rulers
‒ metre sticks
More activities: Refer to your textbook
‒ tape measures
‒ trundle wheels
Record, compare and order lengths of shapes Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 116 – 117;
and objects in millimetres (mm), centimetres
128 – 129
(cm), metres (m), kilometres (km)
Activity 1 – 2; 1, 2 & 5
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Calculations and problem-solving Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxxv
Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 121; 124
Solve problems in contexts involving length
Activity 14; 6
Convert between any of the following units. Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 118 – 125
‒ millimetres (mm),
Activity Select activities
‒ centimetres (cm),
‒ metres (m) and
‒ kilometres (km)
Conversions limited to whole numbers and
common fractions
PROPERTIES OF 2D SHAPES: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xl
Range of shapes
Activity 2 (Name all the 2-D shapes)
Recognize, visualize and name 2-D shapes in the
environment and geometric setting, focusing on Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 70; 72
regular and irregular polygons - triangles,
Activity 1; 6
squares, rectangles, other quadrilaterals,
pentagons, hexagons, heptagons Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 54 – 55
circles
Activity 1 – 5
similarities and differences between squares Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 70
and rectangles
Activity 2
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Characteristics of shapes Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 71
Describe, sort and compare 2-D shapes in
Activity 3 – 5
terms of:
‒ straight and curved sides Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 54
‒ number of sides
Activity 2
‒ lengths of sides
‒ angles in shapes, limited to: Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 73
right angles
Activity 8
angles smaller than right angles
angles greater than right angles Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 56; 59
Activity 1 – 3; 2
Further activities Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 72
Draw 2-D shapes on grid paper
Activity 7
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Angles Workbook 1 (Term 1) pages 73
Recognize and describe angles in 2-D shapes:
Activity 9
‒ right angles
‒ angles smaller than right angles Workbook 2 (Term 3) pages 56 – 59
- angles greater than right angles
Activity select activities
PROPERTIES OF 3-D OBJECTS: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xl – xli
Activity 1; 3
Range of objects
Recognize, visualize and name 3-D objects in Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 142; 144
the environment and geometric settings,
Activity 1; 1 – 3
focusing on:
‒ rectangular prisms and other prisms Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 110 – 115
‒ cubes
‒ cylinders Activity 1 – 3; 5 – 8; 10 & 11
‒ cones
‒ pyramids
similarities and differences between cubes and Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 145
rectangular prisms
Activity 4 – 5
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Characteristics of objects Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 146 – 148
Describe, sort and compare 3-D objects in
Activity 1 – 2; 1
terms of
‒ shape of faces Workbook 2 (Term 4) pages 112 – 115
‒ number of faces
Activity 4; 9 & 12
‒ flat and curved surfaces
Further activities Workbook 1 (Term 2) pages 142 – 143;
‒ Make 3-D models using cut out polygons
150 – 151
‒ Cut open boxes to trace and describe their nets
Activity 2 – 5; 1 – 4
GRADE 6
TOPICS (CONCEPTS AND SKILLS) DBE WORKBOOK PAGES
LENGTH Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxxiv – xxxv
Practical measuring
Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 94 – 95; 104
mate and practically measure 2-D shapes and 3-D
cts using measuring instruments such as: Activity 1; 1, 2 & 4
‒ rulers
‒ metre sticks
‒ tape measures More activities: Refer to your textbook
‒ trundle wheels
Record, compare and order lengths of shapes Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 95; 104
and objects in millimetres (mm), centimetres
Activity 3; 2
(cm), metres (m), kilometres (km)
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Calculations and problem-solving Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 103; 106 - 107
Solve problems in contexts involving length
Activity 1 a – f; 1 a – e
Convert between millimetres (mm), Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 96 – 99; 105;
centimetres (cm), metres (m) and kilometres
107
(km)
Activity 1 – 8; 1 & 2; 2
Conversions should include common fractions
and decimal fractions forms to 2 decimal
places
PROPERTIES OF 2-D SHAPES Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xlii
Range of shapes
Activity 2
Regular and irregular polygons
- triangles, squares, rectangles, Workbook 1 (Term 1) page 54; 56
parallelograms, other quadrilaterals,
Activity 1; 3
pentagons, hexagons, heptagons,
octagons Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 50
Activity 1
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Similarities and differences between Refer to your textbook
rectangles and parallelograms
Characteristics of shapes Workbook 1 (Term 1) page 58 - 59
Describe, sort and compare 2-D shapes in
Activity 8 & 9
terms of
‒ number of sides More activities: Refer to your textbook
‒ length of sides
‒ size of angles
acute
right
obtuse
straight
reflex
revolution
Further activities Workbook 1 (Term 1) page 55
Draw 2-D shapes on grid paper
Activity 2
Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 51
Activity 3
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Draw circles, patterns in circles and patterns Workbook 1 (Term 1) page 60 – 63
with circles using a pair of compasses
Activity 1 – 3
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Angles Workbook 1 (Term 1) page 56 – 57
Recognize and name the following angles
Activity 5 – 7
in 2-D shapes:
‒ acute Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 52 – 53, 54 – 56
‒ right
Activity 1 & 3; 2 – 3
‒ obtuse
‒ straight
‒ reflex
‒ revolution
SYMMETRY Workbook 1 (Term 1) page 106 – 107
Recognize, draw and describe lines of
Activity 1 – 5; 1 – 4
symmetry in 2-shapes
TRANSFORMATIONS Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 192 – 193
Use transformations to make composite
Activity 1 – 4
shapes
Make composite 2D shapes including shapes Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 194 – 203
with line symmetry by tracing and moving a
Activity All activities
2D shape in one or more of the following
ways: Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 204 - 205
- By rotation
Activity 1 a – f
- By translation
- By reflection More activities: Refer to your textbook
Use transformations to make tessellations Workbook 2 (Term 3 & 4) page 204 - 205
Make tessellated patterns including some
Activity 1 a – f
patterns with line symmetry by tracing and
moving 2D shapes in one or more of the
following ways:
More activities: Refer to your textbook
- By rotation
- By translation
- By reflection
Describe patterns Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 56 - 57
Refer to lines, 2D shapes, 3D objects and/or
Activity 1; 2 & 3
lines of symmetry and/or rotations and/or
reflections and/or translations when describing
patterns:
More activities: Refer to your textbook
- In nature
- From modern everyday life
- From our cultural heritage
Enlargement and reductions Workbook 2 (Term 3) page 58 - 61
Draw enlargement and reductions of 2-D
Activity 1 – 8
shapes to compare size and shape of
‒ triangles More activities: Refer to your textbook
‒ quadrilaterals
PROPERTIES OF 3-D OBJECTS: Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xlii
Range of objects
Activity 1 – 2
Recognize, visualize and name 3-D objects in
the environment and geometric settings, Workbook 1 (Term 2) page 94
focusing on:
Activity 1
‒ rectangular prisms
‒ cubes Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 151
‒ tetrahedrons
Activity 3
‒ pyramids
Similarities and differences between Workbook 1 (Term 2) page 95
tetrahedrons and other pyramids
Activity 3
Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 153
Activity 6
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Characteristics of objects Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xlii
Describe, sort and compare 3-D objects in
Activity 3
terms of:
- number and shape of faces Workbook 1 (Term 2) page 96
- number of vertices
Activity 1
- number of edges
Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 150 - 153
Activity 1 & 2; 1 – 5
Further activities Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xliii
Make 3-D models using:
Activity 4 – 5
- drinking straws, toothpicks etc.
- nets Workbook 1 (Term 2) page 97
Activity 3
More activities: Refer to your textbook
AREA, PERIMETER AND VOLUME Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxxvii
Perimeter
Activity 6
Measure perimeter using rulers or measuring
tapes Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 156 – 157; 160 –
163
Activity 1 – 5; 1 – 3
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Measurement of area Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxxvi – xxxvii
Continue to find areas of regular and irregular
Activity 1 – 5
shapes by counting squares on grids
Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 154 – 155;
Activity 1 – 4
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Develop rules for calculating the areas of Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 156 – 157
squares and rectangles
Activity 1 – 3
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Measurement of volume Workbook 1 (Revision) pages xxxviii
Continue to find volume/capacity of objects by
Activity 1 – 3
packing or filling them
Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 158 - 159
Activity 1 & 2
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Develop an understanding of why the volume Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 158 – 159
of rectangular prisms is given by length
Activity 1 & 2
multiplied by width multiplied by height
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Investigate: Workbook 2 (Term 4) page 156 – 157
Relationship between perimeter and area of
Activity 1; 2 & 3
rectangles and squares.
More activities: Refer to your textbook
Relationship between surface area and Refer to your textbook
volume of rectangular prisms
