Some of the boys and girls in P2 M have started to look at the concept of division.  The children had to take a total number and see how many ways they could group the items.  In the example above there was 4 groups of 5.  The children had to make sure that each group had an equal number.   Here are some more pictures of the children working on dividing a total into groups.

 

 

Here the children were playing with the linking elephants.  They had the number 14 and made 2 groups of 7.

 

Here the children were using gems.  They had number 20 and made 5 groups of 4.

 

The children were also able to write out their calculations using the words ‘groups of’.

Another group of children within the class were learning about multiplication.  Working as part of a team they made posters to show their understanding.

 

This really helped them to understand what 5×5 means as they had to break the sum in to parts(5+5+5+5+5 or 5 groups of 5).  As well as this they had to take turns and listen to one another to work successfully as a team.  The pictures below show the children working together, as part of a team, to make their posters.

 

We can also use the computers to do problem solving activities.  Here is one of the girls playing a Function Machine’ game. She had to choose a target number and make that number using multiplication and addition.