***Room 2 All Stars***

We have been making numbers in Maths. We used 2 dice and popsticks to make our numbers. One dice showed the number of tens we needed and the other dice showed how many ones we needed. So if we rolled a 5 and a 6 first we needed to decide which number we were going to make – 56 or 65. Then we had to make bundles of tens  and count out the correct number of ones to make the number. So 56 would need 5 tens and 6 ones. We worked with a partner and Judi took photographs of some of the numbers that we made.

Making Our Avatars with Our Buddies on PhotoPeach

Making Towers with Spaghetti & Marshmallews on PhotoPeach

We discovered while working with cooked and uncooked spaghetti that it can’t be changed back once it has been cooked.

We made a word chain about how the spaghetti changed. 

Uncooked Spaghetti  – hard – sharp – cook – cooked spaghetti – sticky – soft – can’t be changed back.

Words we brainstormed to describe uncooked spaghetti are :

*straight     *hard     *dry     *breakable     *thin     *a little bendy     *rigid     *messy

Our task was to make a pattern with something we chose from the Maths cupboard. Our pattern had to have 4 elements (ie components) and 4 terms (ie number of times the pattern is repeated) and we had to number it. We counted the total number of elements which was 16.

Make a pattern with 3 elements. What is the total number of elements if you had 6 terms?

We have discovered there are many ways to sort things in maths. They include:

*what  it is made of

*shape

*patterns

*types or kinds

*colour

*size

*thickness

We have sorted children, pegs and the foam shapes.

Can you think of any other ways we could sort?