Which one is missing?

A full set of dominoes has twenty eight different tiles. But how do you find which one is missing when you are deliberately given an incomplete set?
You use your systematic thinking skills that's what you do! So that is just what the pupils of Ganges class have done. It was great to see everyone rising to the challenge and working step-by-step to find the piece, or even pieces, they needed to complete their domino set.

Thinking systematically

Systematic team work

Knowing how to think and work systematically is a great skill to develop for continued maths understanding, so that is just what we have been doing in class. Tackling each aspect of the problems given step-by-step as you work with a partner also helps us to cooperate and discuss what we are doing with each other. 

Here we have worked out the different ways to make a 3 X 3 square using just Numicon 1 and 2 tiles. Very important to think systematically so that we discover all of the possibilities.

A tasty maths lesson

Let's solve this and then we can eat!

The children in Ganges have all been working on solving challenging fraction problems based around a maths story of a number of children going on a picnic and sharing the food out. To make it clearly a real life problem we had a number of freshly baked and deliciously smelling French baguettes in class.

Once they had written their maths story with the key fraction facts included in the narrative it was time to eat. It seemed that working our brains hard had given everyone a good appetite!