Maths Problem Solving

This week children in Team Maunga have been working on a problem that requires sorting, grouping, classifying and discussing their ideas.  It leads to lots of discussions of how to represent numbers and even looking for numbers to add together to quickly find out answers.  Fantastic stuff Team Maunga

Here are a few photos of groups sharing their ideas with the class.  Well done guys.  Can't wait for next week.

Easter Fun

With Easter this weekend we decided to do some eater things in class.   For writing we had to put cut up sentences about Easter back into order, before writing them down.  For maths we had to solve addition problems to help us colour in Easter eggs.  For Reading we had a shared book called Eggs, Eggs, Eggs.  It was lots of fun.

We also enjoyed this maths game below where we had to find the bunny which was hidden under the eggs.   We had a few different ways to play this.

Children in Room 5 for maths would simply be working on identifying the numbers.

Children in room 6 could choose to either practice their numbers before and after, e.g. is it the number before 19 (18), or by practicing telling others how many tens and ones were in these numbers, e.g. for 19 we would say... 'is it under the egg that has 1 ten and 9 ones?'.

These are things we have been practicing in Maths.