Update - end of week 3

Wow, we are at beginning of week 4!  Where has all that time gone!!  Last week we spent the first session exploring halves and quarters of our metre piece of string.  We then had to work out how many centimetres equalled half a metre and then quarter of a metre.  Number properties were worked through and we now know that 25 is half of 50, quarter of a metre is 25 centimetres, two quarters makes ½ a metre and 50 + 25 = 75.  We looked at strategies for adding and touched on Place Value.  Needless to say we didn’t quite get through our area challenge of designing bench tops and kitchen floors.  We’ll carry these concepts through this week along with the new context of Algebra and Algebraic Equations.