Mornings with Hine

Geometry    geo  - means the earth, metry  means measure. Measuring physical features. Set geometry and measurement together. Level 1- Make sure we give children lots of versions of the shape. Octagon activity. 8 sided shapes. What makes a shape? Start with the real objects then find the properties. Things aren't static- compare roller, to clock, and ball. Notice things in their environment. Talk about form and function before naming shapes. Develop a child's ability to think and act instead of giving the names of shapes. Maths shapes rules- Drawing pictures of shapes. For shapes to be part of a polygon it must have a certain set of features, closed or complete, sharp corners, straight lines then count the sides. Put like shapes together. Distinguish shapes between these things. Unclosed triangle. Be aware of the angles of positional language. Develop a dialogue about it. Front for you could be back or front. So open up discussions about it. Bruce-  Some of...

Part Whole Addition crossing the decade Notes for sharing in our team meeting. Each previous step has been taking us closer to this. Moving works well if you have done changing ones and changing tens without counting. Shouldn’t be a big gap between last learning. 1. Kids need to have making ten, basic place value and bonds to ten. 2. Make sure you have a good story. Not sheep as they aren’t usually lined up in tens. Bring in choc chip biscuits. We can put biscuits into tens. If it is logical they will have a better access. 3. We need a good model Packages of ten with some left over, unifix blocks in lines of ten with some left over. Money is good for many things in maths but not crossing the decade because the tens don’t look like ten ones. Use the tens frames- We are working in the chocolate biscuit factory. Does this packet have ten in it? Never mind someone must have eaten them.        Can you put the remaining biscuits in it? While a students is addi...