In first class we have been improving our mathematical skills – estimating, counting, skip counting, adding, subtracting, identifying, converting and problem-solving.
We used base ten blocks to make tens and units. We love big numbers!
This helped us understand how units become tens, the value of a digit in a number, and when completing place value work in our copies.
We are becoming tables experts and enjoy playing ‘Around the World’. It can get quite competitive. We practise writing them out if we finish our work early. This helps us revise for our Friday test.
We learned doubles which will help us when we start fractions and finding halves next week! We can also use doubles or making ten to help us add 3 numbers.
We needed to learn some maths language to help us use our number lines and hundred squares properly. We learned before and after, next, counting forwards, counting back and between.
We learned the days of the week in our vocabulary lesson. We then transferred this knowledge to our maths and used it to reinforce our understanding of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
We learned about 2D shapes – their names and their properties. We held plastic 2D shapes and ran our fingers around them to count the straight and curved sides and the corners. We loved drawing lots of shapes in our copies and finding objects to match in the classroom.
We even solved problems involving 2D shapes. It was fun.
We got a chance to record everything we know about addition before sharing it with the class and learning more ways to represent plus. +
Friday is our favourite maths day when we get to use our problem-solving copies and challenge ourselves. In Togher BNS we use the RAVECCC method for solving word problems. This means we read the problem twice and underline the key words. Then we picture it and estimate whether the number is getting bigger or smaller. This helps us decide what number operation we must use. Then we circle our numbers and work it out. We like drawing it too!
We use the commutative property of addition to write our answers two different ways.
Sometimes we work as a group to chat about the problem and figure out the best way to solve it. We can even solve 2-step problems!!! Can you?
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