Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Look at us Learning

Cale is ready to edit. You can see two versions of the same story. The first draft is on the left and the second draft is on the right. They're all excited about the word 'edit' now. Haha.

During a recent writer's workshop Avery shows off a beautiful Spring story!

So we tried a math problem that went like this:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar ate 16 pieces of Swiss cheese. Then he ate 14 pieces of Cheddar cheese. How many pieces of cheese did he eat in all?
These pictures are of us solving this simple addition problem. They all got it. A couple of friends needed a little help from a peer. This was because they were not counting carefully and have a bit of work left to do with one to one correspondence (touching each object as they say the number)

You can see the many ways we solved it....cubes, drawing tallies/circle, snap cubes, etc.


Representing the groups with numerals.








Here is the CHALLENGE problem!!!! This is a problem that actually involves multiplication! (but they don't know that)
You will be AMAZED if you look closely at their work. I am.



'I put 4 scoops of icrecream in each bowl because there were 10 bowls.'
 



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