We started by looking through the booklet of last week's session. We tried making number bonds to 9 sometimes with more than two rods and explored those ideas a little. We introduced arithmagons that we didn't get a chance to do the previous week. It is a good way to focus on the maths session after the games. 
We were looking at multiplication. The first exploration was working with rectangles. We tried to construct a numberline and match rectangles with their numbers. There was opportunity to look at this in more detail and it was an activity that worked well for the explorers as a group. We would have needed more blocks to spend more time on this but it would have been worth it.From there, we went on to play the multiplication grid challenge. The hope was to consolidate the ideas from the rectangles. It was maybe a bit fast for that to happen.
We also looked at prime colours. This was a bit bolted on and more could have been done with this if we had the chance to compare with the rectangles.
Plenty to explore but perhaps not enough time with each to make it possible for explorers to make something of the task.
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