Today I observed Lilianne teaching maths in Room 21 with Year 5s.
They were working on the problem “Team Matai’s classes were using 3579 ipads and Team Manuka’s were using 1756. How many were they using altogether?”
I liked the way Lilianne got the children to read the problem then flip their papers over while she clarified parts of the problem.
Another group was working with Niu in the back room on working out what ⅜ of the number of ipads was. An important message I noticed Niu giving the children was “You must always give a reason for your answer.”
The first group that explained their answer split the numbers into thousands, hundred, tens and ones and added those.
Takeaway: I liked the way Lilianne made a link back to the context of the problem at the end, saying “That was a lot of ipads to add up.” That was a good reminder to me to do the same, so that the problem remains meaningful in its context.
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