Maths Fun!
With the incorporation of the reading and writing programme into our inquiry, I wanted to do something along the same lines as maths. Although I will still teach maths in isolation, I thought the conclusion to our place value topic could be light hearted fun.
We had a fun time with the 'trend setter' place value house, marshmallows, raw spaghetti pasta and fruit loops. I called out a number and the children had to make the number using the fruit loops on the spaghetti. Then they had to challenge the person next to them. I could see a group of children weren't being challenged so I gave them their group model book with pre written large numbers in it, written in words.
It was a fun lesson, but also an important one for me. The children who appeared to be 'not getting it' during our group sessions, were working really hard and asking for help from the children next to them. There was no frustration and I found the quiet children happier to ask questions.
In future, I will be planning my maths units with more physical manipulatives in mind as that appeared to form a link today during this activity.
We had a fun time with the 'trend setter' place value house, marshmallows, raw spaghetti pasta and fruit loops. I called out a number and the children had to make the number using the fruit loops on the spaghetti. Then they had to challenge the person next to them. I could see a group of children weren't being challenged so I gave them their group model book with pre written large numbers in it, written in words.
It was a fun lesson, but also an important one for me. The children who appeared to be 'not getting it' during our group sessions, were working really hard and asking for help from the children next to them. There was no frustration and I found the quiet children happier to ask questions.
In future, I will be planning my maths units with more physical manipulatives in mind as that appeared to form a link today during this activity.
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