Group wha:

Madison's strategy: using bar models for subtraction problems.

Group Toru:

Madison's learning

Group Toru:

Sharing her learning about Fractions

Group Tahi: our google slides

Presenting our google slides to show our fraction bar models.

Group Rua:

Using a number wheel to share our number knowledge and make our connections.

Group Wha: Making Connections:

How do fractions relate to multiplication and division?

Wonderful conclusions! Thank you Poppy who reminded us division is just equal
Sharing and that is what fractions are.

Special Interest : Introducing factorials

As part of finding the numbers 1- 20 using only four 4's .  We were introduced to Factorials.

Factorials use the exclamation mark (!)
ie  4!

a " factorial of n items gives you the number of ways you can arrange the given items."

So 4! means = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24


For example: If there are two coins - you can arrange them in two different ways - like wise if you have 3 coins - there are 6 ways you can arrange them.
If you have four coins you can arrange then in ___ ways? 

Group Tahi and Wha: bar models

These groups have made their own bar models using google slides.
They used the shape tools to create and measure their bar models. Today the whole was 24. We know our fractions all depend on our whole.

Very proud team!!

Special Interest Question

Can you quarter a triangle?

If so how? If not why not?

Complete a drawing and send it to Mrs Madden.

Group Toru: Jaymee showing a fraction wall

Special interest: more cookies ....

Here is our last group who divided the recipe into thirds and created their smartie biscuit.

Special interest: making four 4's

Here are all our solutions.
Ka pai to Robert who went home and found his own solutions!!

Special interest Ono - Tuesday

Here we are making smartie cookies and banana clusters. We worked as a group to decide on who was bringing which ingredients. We then had to divide our recipe into thirds or halves as some groups forgot their ingredients.

We then designed and made containers to hold our cookies.
Using nothing but an A4 piece of paper.

Group Rua:

Here are our bloggers😀

Group Toru:

Matching cookies with a fraction of a set.

Group Rua: adding two digit numbers

Here we are breaking our numbers into tens and ones and then adding each one. We used the place value blocks to see what the tens and ones look like. We are trying to see the difference and get a picture in our head.

Group Toru:

Using a variety of ways to show our fractions, we have used circles, bars, number lines and blocks. Can you see all our different ways?

Group wha:

Using bar models, matching fractions with our batch of 12 cookies.

Group Tahi: bar models

Using bar models to show how many cookies there are.
We had a batch of 12 cookies:

Group wha

Using an empty number line to order our fractions:

Group Toru:

We used bar models and empty number lines to work this out

Group Tahi:

We can now add more fractions to our numberline- this includes 1/3 and 5/6

This was our challenge today, how many cookies is 5/6?

Group Tahi

Using a numberline to order our fractions.
We can match our fractions with a set of 12 cookies in the correct order.

We now know 1/12 is the smallest fraction and 1/2 is always in the middle. Lots of discussions to match the fractions with a batch of cookies.

Group Rua:

Family of Facts:
How subtraction is related to addition

Group Tahi: ordering fractions

Group Rua: using an empty number line and splitting strategy:

Finding different strategies to subtract:

Our new class displays:

Actually understanding how we learn and how our brain works helps us make sense of mathematics!

Special interest

Working as a team we needed to use four 4's and any operation to make the numbers 0 - 20...

We could easily make 16
4+ 4+4+4 = 16

Other numbers were more difficult and we learnt the importance of BODMAS - the order of operations as well as the square root of numbers.