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Making pairs of numbers (adding 2 numbers together)

Today our Superman maths group were learning all about pairs of numbers.  For example there are lots of pairs of numbers that make 14: 0 + 14, 1 + 13, 2 + 12, 3 + 11, 4 + 10, 5 + 9, 6 + 8, 7 + 7, 8 + 6, 9 + 5, 10 + 4, 11 + 3, 12 + 2, 13 + 1 and 14 + 0.

Today our whizz kids were learning how to make a number using pairs of numbers.  Here are some photos of them hard at work:

Keira and Faith work out what happens when you have 7 + 3 more... Kahjaden was supervising.

Eve demonstrates to Amelia what she has been learning to do...great work Eve!

Working together to find out what happens when the number 10 has two pairs (4 + 6)

Slytherin Flying High

Today Mrs C's Slytherin group made paper planes and used our feet to measure how far they had flown.  Here are some snippets of our time together today:

Persia and Aniyah concentrating on making their paper planes.

Isaia and Jadyn enjoyed folding and bending the paper to try different designs.

Nearly done!

Here we go...up...up...and away!

Finished, here we are with our designer paper planes

Measurers with Skills

Mrs C's Slytherin group have been learning about measuring.  They have looked at 1cm on a ruler and explored how mm can convert to decimals, fractions and 0.5 is the same as 1/2!  Here are some photos of these measurement experts finding out the exact measurement between two lines.  They are so super clever and could explain how 9.3 is the same as 9 and 0.3 of a cm OR 93mm OR 9cm and 3/10.

These clever kids deserve a special mention for all of their super learning about measurement.

Check them out while they work:

Hmmm, is this shorter than 10cm?  What's this, it's not exactly on a number...oh no!  What do I do now?

Hmmm something makes me think those scissors are bigger than 10cm Aniyah!

I just love Jadyn's enthusiasm, he looks pretty relaxed about this measuring business...

Isaia, I think you're right.   It's come up a tad short.  What are you going to do now?

Check out this clever mathematician...if at first you don't succeed...fold the paper smaller!

Let's get measuring!

Persia measured the distance between her marks and wrote the measurement herself.  Well done!

Wahoo Jadyn, you clever thing.  Look at that accurate measuring.

This cool customer was fairly confident of her measuring and could explain how she got the measurement 21.7cm.

Mr accurate, 24.5cm and he remembered he could say 24.5 or 24 and 1/2 cm

Matthias you are loving learning through measurement and you are getting pretty good at it too.

The rest of Room 2 had to find out what our secret Slytherin group had been up too...

A Handy Situation

Mrs C's Slytherin maths group have been learning about measuring with non-standard units.  This means not measuring with a ruler but finding another way to measure.  We looked at our handspans and we used them to measure things in our classroom.  

Mrs C gave us cm square blocks that we used to measure how many cms long our handspans are.  Here are photos of us measuring our handspans:

Persia concentrating on lining them up correctly so she didn't get a false measurement.

I didn't even dare talk to Matthias, he was so deep in concentration.

Isaia was pretty serious about this measuring business!

Matthias looks pretty happy with himself!  Great job super star!

Isaia was still going, so was Jadyn.  It took us quite a while but our handspans were between 13-19cm long.  We thought this was pretty amazing!

Stage 2 Counting On

Our stage 2 maths group are learning about counting on.  This is when you start at the biggest number instead of counting all of the number.  Check out our super stars in action while learning how to use this strategy:

Kahjaden started at 5 and counted on 4 more.

Jadyn started at 6 and counted 4 more.

Emily started at 6 and counted 6 more.

Mrs C was setting up a problem for the group to solve using counting on.  They weren't allowed to peek until Mrs C said so.

Keira is counting on from 7 - what do you think her answer was?

Yup you are right, she got 11!  She looks pretty pleased with herself.

Amelia was counting on 6 more from 8 - what answer do you think she got?

You're right!  The answer is 14, Amelia was super happy she worked this out herself.

Faith has just joined us from Palmerston North.  She was counting on from 5.

Yes Faith, you are right, the answer is 10!

Mrs C could see we were getting clever at this so she set us the challenge of making some addition problems for our buddy to solve using counting on.  Check out the photos of us in action: