Saturday, 24 September 2016

Math on the Move!

We have been working really hard during our Math time, but we've been having a lot of fun while we work.  We really enjoy the activities that allow us to move around the room talking about and practicing various math concepts/skills.
*We are reviewing 2 and 3 digit numbers, comparing and ordering numbers, reading and writing number words.
*We are representing numbers in tallies to show data.
*We played a tally game to practice making and counting tallies.
*We gathered our own data by asking our friends a survey question and recorded answers in tallies.   *We learned how to talk/write about our data (this is called 'interpreting') to say what we found out.  Knowing the most and least popular responses is still good, but knowing how to compare different parts of the data is our goal.  We call these "million dollar interpretations".
*We practiced working with others to organize a set of data and create a pictograph.  Key features of graphs (title, axis labels and the scale) were added.

All this and it's still only the third week of school!