Rua Tekau: making a rainbow 🌈 our of our facts to 10

Tekau

We love open ended questions, where we can find a variety of answers and collaborate with each other to discuss our strategies.
We are also using the equipment to share our thinking and find new ways.


Today's question:
On a poultry farm a farmer is collecting eggs. He collected 24 eggs, how many ways could he package them before he sent them to Countdown?

Toru Tekau: finding Fractions

Here we are noticing a whole can be all different sizes. We could easily find wholes and halves easily. We were challenged to find 1/3 and especially 2/3rds.
We do know that fractions must be equal pieces of a whole - we could see this.

Rua Tekau : shake it up..

Using 10 double sided counters we played a game to find all the combinations to make 10. We used reversibility and can see there are 11 different ways.

Tekau - playing making 10

Today they have changed it - they have used subtraction and multiplication to make 10.
Next we can change the number. Ie let's make 12

Group Rua Tekau: Making 10

Here we are adding and subtracting cards to make 10. Please play this at home this week!

Tekau: watch out teachers we are taking over: