Our learning in week 6

We had some fun sessions last week exploring number and place value to 1000.  We also enjoyed using the calculator to help us skip count forwards and backwards.  Please encourage the children to show you their learning through the maths blog.  The last posting shows how you can use playing cards to explore numbers to 1000.  Ordering numbers, counting and talking about numbers before and after is knowledge we are consolidating.  The children have expecially enjoyed playing the game risk which also explores number and place value.  It is a fun and educational game to play with the whole family.  

When practising writing numbers we found the tricky ones were numbers with 0 as a place holder - 105, 409, 306; numbers in the teens 114, 215, 616 and numbers that are tidy 150, 340, 590.  

Another fun activity that has helped with skip counting and algebraic patterning is found by using the constant key on the calculator.  The children are starting to see and hear the patterning that occurs when skip counting in 2's, 5's and 10's and can continue these patterns using larger numbers.  We even found out about negative numbers.