Learning our Chinese Numbers

Using the Empty Number line to answer our word problem:

The date is 27 March and Bree's birthday is in 13 days time, what day is her birthday?? Before we could answer the question, what did we need to know?: How many days in the month of March - there are 31. Knowing the day after the 31 March is 1 April. We write the dates underneath and the jumps on top.

Teaching the teachers our ninja moves

Karate Maths:

Group Tahi -

Today we are learning how numbers are made up and recording this in English, Maori, Samoan and Japanese. These languages represent all our cultures in our group.

Recording our fractions on a number line - Group Ono

Making number stories from 'snap it'

Can you explain what these words mean to an adult?

Rainbow Maths

Here we are learning our patterns to 10 - can you see how the rainbow connects a pair of numbers. We have learnt reversibility. We know that 1 + 9 = 10 and so does 9 + 1 = 10.

Learning our doubles

Using our dice patterns to help remember our doubles.

Group Rima - Multiplication grid

Here we are learning our multiplication facts. Can you see the rectangles we are creating by making arrays?

Finding the Fractions - Group Ono

Using the plane windows we can write a variety of fractions. We have learnt that fractions change depending on what the whole is. We are starting to see how big fractions are by putting them on a numberline.

Making our Rainbows to show the number combinations to 10.

Can you see the start and end of each colour? What do you notice?? Can you see the pattern? What is this called??

Group Rima teaching each other the family of facts.

In Xzavier's words, if you know one fact you actually know four! We now know the family of number facts to 10, 20 and 30 - write in the comments section if you can give an example too... 7 + 3 = 10 3 + 7 = 10 10 - 7 = 3 10 - 3 = 7; 18 + 2 = 20 2 + 18 = 20 20 - 2 = 18 20 - 18 = 2

EV EN and O DD numbers... Which colour shows the even numbers??

Using a variety of equipment to help us problem solve.

Can you see the different equipment we are choosing to use?? We have the abacus, the place value blocks, the hundreds board, pencil and paper to draw an empty numberline.... What do you like to use? Kiralee created this problem for the group: At Dunkin Donuts there were 72 people in the shop, they all wanted chocolate donuts. However there were only eighteen donuts left. How many people missed out? How would you solve it??

EV EN and O DD Numbers

We are playing with numbers and seeing which numbers can be put into two equal groups. These are known as 'even' numbers. Today groups Rua and Tahi shared their ideas: Emma says " a even number is like, 6, 4 , 8 and 100. You can split them in half. If you have 6 and take away three you have another three and that is an even number." " Emma says two odd numbers will always make an even number?" Do you agree? Answer in the comments section... Regan says " means that you can split it in half and make two groups." Jasmine says " a even number is a number that can be split into two equal numbers." Karlia says "an even number is 50, 100, 10 ,6. Because you can split them in half." "If they cannot be split in half with no bits left over they are called odd numbers." Teachers tip - Have a look at the number in the ones column or the last digit the number ends with. Can you see which numbers are used?? What are they? ( - hint: 0,2,4,6,8)

Making all the combinations to 10

Here we have are answering our problem: " If we have 10 felts. Some are red and some are blue. How many different combinations could we have?" Together we found different combinations and then created a model of our thinking using the red and blue multilink cubes. - Emily and Liam said the multi-link pattern looked like stairs - Can you see this? This activity helps us see what numbers make 10, this is very useful for lots of mathematics questions. We are practicing this a lot!

Group Rima

Here is our fantastic group Rima. We are lucky to have two sets of twins! All these students are new to Sunnyhills School and are delight to teach!!

Here we are making bunting for our classroom

Can you see the repeated patterns we are making with the bunting? We are using the school colours to group and draw our own repeated patterns. We repeated them three times and shared our patterns with our group.

Showing how numbers are made:

Here we are making numbers using the multi-link cubes and then using the arrow cards to see how the number is recorded. Can you see the six tens which make 60?