This afternoon we had a maths session with Nikki K, focusing on the abacus, fly flip cards and geometry.
The abacus can be used in a variety of ways, one to one counting, imaging, skip counting and simple equations.
The fly flip cards were used to counting on from five.
For geometry we had to go outside and take photos of all the shapes we could possibly find. Then we created our own shapes and manipulated them on the computer.
From this session I have learnt that I can use the abacus for a variety of warmups forcing the children to image and skip count. When teaching geometry I can see that I can set the unit up by getting children to take photos of all the shapes they can see in their surroundings, then organising them into the different shapes eg. squares, triangles, circles.
On the 28th of May we have another session where we need to report to a group about two things in the ALIM readings.
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