March 3rd: Using Maths Materials and More Self-Portraits

Kia ora whānau,

A popular maths game to practise addition is SKUNK. The rules for this can be found in the Week 5 Learning Plan on the Kauri Team site -- this can all be accessed by your child at home via Google when your child logs into their Hamilton East School account.

Here is how we used materials to solve an addition problem (54 + 68):

1. Count 54 and 68 using one-blocks and ten-rods.

2. Match 10 one-blocks with 1 ten-rod.

3. Remove the 10 one-blocks and add 1 ten-rod to the other ten-rods.

4. Match 10 ten-rods with 1 hundred-block.

5. Remove the 10 ten-rods.

You should now have:

1 one-hundred block

2 ten-rods

2 one-blocks

This is 122.

Here are some learners in action with the materials!

And some more sketching as parts of our Ko Wai Au? (Who Am I?) self-portrait project and images of nature: