Thursday, 31 August 2017

Fabulous fractions

We have been working hard to explain our thinking when solving fraction problems.   Check out some of our different strategies below.



Jayna

Dorothy and Jonathan 


Sanah

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Problem solving puzzler

As part of our maths we are looking at problem solving.   Try finding the solution to this problem with someone at home.  Think about this while taking on our challenge.

What is the question asking?
What are the clues?
What kind of answer am I looking for? E.g. number, word, measurement


Clue: think of years and months.

Monday, 15 May 2017

WAL about 2 digit numbers

Here is some of the ways we can show our understanding of 2 digit numbers.  A 2 digit number has one number sitting in the tens place and a number sitting in the ones place.

 



Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Teen numbers

Today the circles maths group showed their knowledge of teen numbers using pic collage and 10s and 1s blocks.  Well done Aleena for showing the basic fact number sentence.
 

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Tally mark challenge

We had lots of fun applying our knowledge of tally marks to race our buddy to 50.  Tally marks are grouped in 5s, we can use our counting in 5s to quickly find the total.