Session 2 – Autumn 2012
Welcome!
Please find a name badge (addyour name), grab a drink and a biscuit, then find a table.
How you doing?
Last time we looked at place value.
Have you managed to play any games to help you practice?
Have you been having fun with maths?
YES? BRILLIANT! Well we’ve got more...
Sometimes, always, never…
Give children the chance to explain and reason their ideas.
Encourage children to test different examples.
Get children to use mathematical vocabulary accurately.
Sometimes, always, never…
When you add odd numbers together you get an odd answer.
Is this statement sometimes true, always true or never true?
Sometimes…
3+9 = 12
341 + 39 = 380
23 + 31 = 34
93 + 1 = 94
23
11
+ 3
01
= 2
61
277+77 = 154
13+19+1= 33 - ODD
Add a word or phrase to change a ‘sometimes true’ statement to make it ‘always true’ or ‘never true’.
When you add odd numbers together you get an odd answer.
Sometimes, always, never…
Sometimes, always, never…
Give children the chance to explain and reason their ideas.
Encourage children to test different examples.
Get children to use mathematical vocabulary accurately.
Sometimes, always, never…
Take an ‘always true’ statement and explore why its ‘always true’.
Replace the numbers or shapes in a statement and investigate whether the new statement is sometimes, always or never true.
Make up a new statement for each category.
Subtraction - Number Line
132 - 3 =
129 130 131 132
-1-1-1
Subtraction - Number Line
12098 130 132
132 - 98 =
100 110
2101010 234
+2 +10 +10
+10 +2
Subtraction - Number Line
73 - 37 = 132 - 89 =
435 – 289= 28.4 – 18.5 =
Children help the adults with the methods.
What do you mean?
Select one of the following words or phrases:
Square Difference
One Quarter Multiple
Parallel Per cent
Mr Wrong
Use your knowledge of subtraction to explain why these are wrong…
3 + 8 = 12
49 – 10 = 59
Which is the odd one out and why
5 30 48 100
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