Week 7 News

The children will bring home a game called "totality" to play with you this week.  It is a great chance for them to explain how the game is played and the meaning of 'total'.  It is a game that reinforces basic facts. It encourages forward thinking - strategising.  Have fun.

Our new focus is number through patterning.  The children will "tune in" by looking at patterns in their environment, then asking themselves what they notice and wonder.  

 Many of these patterns will be in the form of an array which will lead on to the big idea of equal groupings - repeated addition and multiplicative thinking. We will then make connections with equal sharing and divison.

During our maths sessions we discuss behaviours of strong mathematicians.  Our focus this week is - 

Maths is about Creativity and Making Sense

Maths is a very creative subject that is, at its core, about visualiizing patterns and creating solution paths that others can see, discuss and critique.

What do you notice?

What do you wonder?

How would you share these biscuits between 6 people?