Show Me Some More Strategies!

Below is a Show Me video of my Year 2/3 group having a lesson on place value. 

We have been looking at adding the tens first then the ones using place value blocks. We have also been using uni-link cubes and Popsicle sticks so they become familiar with seeing tens and ones in various forms. 

In this video, I am asking them to partition (break up) the numbers, which will help them as they move towards stage 5 and eventually stage 6 strategies. In this video I gave them more than ten ones (units) so that they would need to identify that there were another ten within those ones that needed to be added to the existing tens. They became a little confused at the end but as you can see they did work it out. The next step is to begin to withdraw the materials (blocks) and add in numbers so they can make the connection between the concrete materials and abstract numbers. We will try this then I will post the next video just keep checking back : )

'Show Me' Your Strategy!

Today all my groups learned how to use an ipad app called 'Show Me' This app is an interactive whiteboard that allows the students to record their strategies while they explain them. We will be doing this regularly so that you are able to see what the students are learning and it also gives my students a fantastic opportunity to share their thinking and clarify their understanding through an interactive medium.

Group 1 (Year 5's) Group 3 (Year 8's) and Group 4 (Year 8's) are all learning to use Reversibility and Place Value Partitioning to answer addition or subtraction equations. They are working on their video's so keep checking back as they will be uploaded soon : )

Below is Sacred from Group 1 explaining how to use reversibility as a strategy for an addition equation.

  

The video below is of Group 2 (my year 2/3's) explaining today, how they solved an addition equation using Place Value. They are using materials (ice-block sticks) as they have just started on Place Value.

Place Value - What is it all about?

Welcome back to term 2!

My students have gotten straight back into learning all they can about mathematics. 

Today Group 1 and 2 started to look at Place Value. Place Value can be one of the trickier areas for children to understand so we started right at the beginning. I gave each group a task - to estimate the number of ice block sticks in the big pile in front of them. After they had all estimated we discussed which way would be the best and fastest way to count. Some said in two's or fives while others said ten. So they were then asked to bundle each stick in to groups of ten and tie it with a rubber band. This is developing the concept of trading. Children need to understand that when we have ten ones we need to change them into 1 ten (a bundle or group) and ten bundles of ten makes one hundred. Once we had created all our bundles of ten (and/or hundreds) we were able to count together in tens and work out who's estimation was closest to the number of sticks that were in the original pile.

After that we used the sticks and bundles (ones/tens) to form an equation. It was the student's job to work out how many were all together by separating the ones and tens when adding. The year 5's were also using hundreds. See below :)

Group 2 - Fractions is a piece of cake!

Group 2 are my wonderful Year 2 and 3 group. Today we looked at fractions, from 1 whole to tenths. Its important when learning fractions that we understand that its not only shapes that can be divided into fractions but also sets.