Expressions

On Friday, Room 9 works on mathematical challenges, tasks, problems and activities which gather all of our collective ideas and make us use our understandings in different ways. The key part of this learning is using and communicating our understandings. This week we looked at algebra and different ways we could express number values. For us that means using the numerals and signs we know to write/communicate (or express) values in different ways.

Lots of the children noticed patterns they could use to find lots of different expressions.

 The children always work with their thinking partners for these tasks. They were free to move around the room and contribute to any of the sheets of paper with number values written at the top.

 They were very engaged in the task and loved making so many connections with each other and with their mathematical understandings.