More Maths Measuring

When we wanted to find out who was the tallest person in our class we just compared our heights.  So when we wanted to find out who had the longest name in our class so we wrote our names on a piece of paper then tried to compare them but we found a problem.  Some people wrote in lovely big letters and some had small writing.  This made a long name look small and a small name look big.  What could we do to make a comparison seem equal?  Then someone remembered that to measure two things, the units of measurement need to be the same - if we all wrote in the same size squares then we could count the squares.  It didn't matter if the writing was big or small!  Rataimore had the longest name as she needed 9 squares to write her name.

Bavin pointing out some names looked big and some looked small

Elena counting squares to see who had the longest name

This is how we did maths today!

We are learning about measuring in maths.  We found out you could compare two things to see which thing was the bigger.  So now we are at level 1 and we can be near one another we decided to compare how tall we are compared to our friend.  Then we all stood in a line and found out who was the tallest and who was the smallest.  This is how we look!

Subitizing Dot Patterns

Playing a dice game was a fun introduction to learning about subitizing.  Subitizing is being able to tell the number in a set quickly without counting.  We know that 3 dots diagonally across a dice is the pattern for the number 3 and 3 dots in two rows is the number 6.  In our game we had to place coloured counters over the same amount of dots on a picture as was shown on the dice. 

Attah and Chad checking what was on the dice and how many counters were added.

Joelle and Elena checking the number of counters they have added