Friday Photos

I was in several classes on Friday and took some photos of the neat tasks and activities that were going on.

One class was working on adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, with an emphasis on zero pairs.

They also had a neat quiz, based on the max/min dice game

To start the quiz a dice is rolled 4 times, and students place the 4 numbers into the boxes, then evaluate each expression.

Another class was doing this slow reveal data talk. A series of images are shown, and students notice and wonder more and more as more information is revealed.

Another was consolidating the R2D2 3 act task, looking at 2 different ways to solve the task, by a ratio of areas, or by converting the dimension in inches into a dimension in “post it notes”. Consolidation ideas included making sure the number sentences were all written in a way for others to follow clearly.

Finally, in my class we were working on order of operations. We were working on the 4 4s task where we use four 4s to create a math expression that equals 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

e.g. 4+4-4-4=0

It was impressive to see the different approaches. We practiced using brackets, and exponents, and found out that since square and square root are opposite operations, they have the same level in BEDMAS. Groups looked to other groups for inspiration, and students were working hard to check and double check their work.

It’s been a fun week in the math department!