{"id":583,"date":"2021-04-28T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps27\/?p=583"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:34:58","slug":"outdoor-number-exploring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps27\/2021\/04\/28\/outdoor-number-exploring\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor number exploring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we made the shape of a pentagon and agreed that it must have five corners and five sides but that the sides didn\u2019t have to be the same length.<\/p>\n

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We then moved on to play some games to encourage us to think about how we manipulate numbers and the easiest way to add them together to find the total. We looked for numbers that add to ten first, this seemed to be the favourite strategy! After that we looked for double numbers and near doubles. It was amazing just how many different ways we found to add up a few numbers and it was great to see how other people do this.<\/p>\n