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.