Year 3's making toast. Can you find fractions in the toast?

Year 3's making toast and noticing and wondering about fractions on PhotoPeach

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Year 4's making toast and noticing and wondering about fractions

Toast and equal shares on PhotoPeach

So what makes a task rich?

So what makes a task rich? on PhotoPeach

The next masterchefs - Year 5

Doubling the recipe on PhotoPeach

Help! I can't remember the code! Year 3-4

Help! I can't remember the code! on PhotoPeach
This was a rich acivity for reading and writing numbers up to 1000.  Lots of discussion took place related to Place value....what is the value of the 0.  Can it be at the beginning of the number...how much is it worth in the middle/end of the number?  If the code is between 500 and 800 could it be 450?  If the number onely has one zero....could it be 600?  Look for the clever number patterns we created as we tried to solve this problem!

 

The maths in making chocolate brownie - Year 3's

Making Chocolate Brownie on PhotoPeach

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