This week we had Mrs Ogle come and visit our class again to help us all with our math's. This was fantastic to be able to all see how far we have come in this math's journey this year (and to get some ideas of where to head next.
We began the session by counting in different ways, and with different patterns. E.g. in 2's (using a 'sit, stand' pattern) in 3's (using a 'sit, sit, stand' pattern) and in 4's (using a 'sit, sit, sit, stand' pattern).
Dianne's Problem was one that she used at different levels across our whole school and Team Maunga focused on going up to the number 20 to solve the problem and answer a number of question about it.
The problem told us that : Andrew had 20 biscuits. He iced every second one, put a cherry on every 3rd one and every 4th got a chocolate button. Some of the questions the children answered about this problem included, how many biscuits had icing on them, how many biscuits had nothing on them and could a biscuit have all 3 things on them. This caused LOTS of discussion, problem solving, drawing to find the answers and using materials to answer it too.
Like normal we all came back to share some of the great work we did and today we all stood around a table where a group had used materials to clearly show what was happening with the problem.
Interestingly a few days latter, these 2 cute monkeys were spotted practicing their patterns using our 100's board. Well done Jemima and Taysia for keeping the learning alive!
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