This worked well. As well as giving us the opportunity to get explorers to think about circles, it was a good way to get people's attention and work as a group.
We continued to begin the session with a recap of last week's activities by working through the booklet and arithmagons.
We focused on understanding multiplication represented as rectangles. We spent time finding rectangle numbers on a hundred square. We had to choose a number and say what multiplication could have made it.
I set the challenge for explorers to find two rectangular numbers to make 17. There was quite a mix of responses to this. Some went with Rita and did more work on finding rectangular numbers first. They worked well and had useful group discussions. Many of those with me explored the topic well trying out different possibilities and finding some. There were a few who did not engage with it though. I'm not sure why they did not attempt this but it is going to be something that needs preparing for ready for next week.
One explorer chose to explore something else. She solved it but it may have been better to encourage more participation at the beginning and moving on after a few tasks.
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