Week Ten

Attached are photos of some of the work we have been doing in our books. You will see the children are dealing with quite complex place value activities now. They have made excellent progress in understanding place value. The real key is the sense of size of each place value column. Each time we move left it is 10 times bigger.

I have also added a 6 times tables rap to the Blog.....Enjoy!

Week Nine

The last week of Term 3. It has been fantastic to see the progress being made this term. Our blog has had 147 new visitors and nearly 500 page views.
Attached are more photos of the work we have been doing. It is important to note the understanding being developed behind the Family of Facts work. We used materials to initially construct the times tables and look for patterns. It is also important to explore the concept of the commutative law of multiplication, equally important is that it cannot be used for division. With this understood the children quickly realised that by knowing 1 fact (eg 4 x 5 = 20) they could easily construct the other 3 facts in the family.
Hopefully everyone has a good break and i look forward to great progress in Term 4.

Week Eight

This week we have spent time consolidating our understanding of decimal place value and have been developing understanding of Family of Facts based on the 5 times tables. The photos attached show some of the book work and games the children have been using over the past few weeks