Collaboration

Today we worked on our collaboration skills. We did the 1-100 task by Sarah Van Der Werf.

We did the task solo. It was estimated that we’d take 100 seconds to circle 100 numbers in order. That was a massive underestimation. It took us about 10 minutes and some were not finished after 10 minutes.

Next we tried in a team.

We did 2 different trials as a group, adding different strategies each time. We got the time down to about 2 minutes!

We debriefed by looking at pictures of our groups doing excellent work together. We noticed how we were on task and helping each other. There were positive encouraging words, and we were all included and participating equally. There was such an intensity of good stress, and joy and enthusiasm. It was a challenge to calm ourselves down after all that!

We ended the class celebrating our very first Vennsday, where we explore number sets using Venn diagrams.

We looked at numbers that are greater than 100, divisible by 3 and divisible by 5. We debriefed some divisibility rules together at the end of the class. What a great collaborative day!