Sunday, 13 September 2015

Year 5...thinking flexibly using quick images




Quick images is an activity that encourages students to use groupings flexibly to determine how many there are in total.
The image above and below is shown for 3 seconds...in those 3 seconds these were some of our noticings -
I saw an array of 5 along the bottom and 4 up the side - that is 5 groups of 4...
I saw 4+4+4+4+4...I knew that 4+4=8...double 8 is 16....16+4=24
I saw 2 groups of 10...2X10 = 20
I saw 2 groups of 8....8+8 or 2X8.....that equalled 16 + 4 =20
I saw 5+5+5+5....5,10,15,20...or 4 groups of 5...that is 4X5 which equals 20

What did you see and how would you represent and discuss your findings?

Quick images provide rich opportunities to useflexible groupings,
opportunities to discuss our thinking and what we visualised
opportunities to represent our thinking in different ways
opportunites to use maths language

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