We explored looking for patterns in numbers in Problem Solving.

The elf problem we managed to work out by drawing a picture to represent elves, shoes and hats first. Then we worked out the answer by counting the elves without hats and shoes.

To work out the number of buttons in our class it was difficult for us to estimate or guess because there were so many combinations. So, in the end we took everybody individually, wrote down how many buttons were on their clothes and then we rounded numbers to the nearest 10 to estimate.

We checked to see if we were close by using a calculator to count up the many numbers.