Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Wed 19 Aug - Adding - place value

Only one today besides Sav and Yunas.  I'm not sure what happened to M&M but they didn't attend.  I started them off with making large letters on the floor with masking tape.  We used the circles in
the basketball court and used the three circles.  There were a few challenges in creating numbers that are larger than you. The main one is drawing them the correct way.  The often started creating it the wrong way even if they never write it incorectly.  It gets you to think clearly about what you're doing.
We then went in and tried the number splits to 30 activity.  This required double digit addition skills that only Tay had so we went through the column method for doing addition.  I didn't really want to get in to it except to see how far they could take it.  Sav more or less got it in the end.  From there we moved to Dicey operations.  This worked well especially the target to provide a goal and focus.  We managed a couple of rounds.
Our last activity involved throwing the juggling batons to make certain numbers from 1 to 20 .  I added the possibility to count or deduct from the number by adding or taking away the number of spins.  Sav was the most vocal about what should happen and she made good decisions.

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