PGC7001M - N-Rich Padlet: All groups by

PGC7001M - N-Rich Padlet: All groups by https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja Take one of the N-Rich tasks you have explored to make a posting. Put the name of the selected task as the title Suggested age group Add comments about the chosen tasks under the two headings: Positives/Potential Issues Insert the direct web-link to your chosen task en-us 2019-11-04 13:54:03 UTC 2021-03-16 10:24:35 UTC hello@padlet.com EXAMPLE POST - Olympic Rings linda_mason https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1258205064 Age 5-7
Positives:
-Develops knowledge on colour and recognition of colour
-Uses and encourages mathematical vocabulary to be used
-Encourages deeper learning and teaches children 'why'
-Develops CPA approach
-Engages with current issues and key events in the environment
-Fun and interactive
-Can be adapted and varied for different children depending on any specific learning difficulties
-May encourage children who are interested in sport but not mathematics

Potential Issues:
-Does not include irregular shapes
-Does not show variation in size
-Very closed questioning and choice of what the children can do
-Limiting to the children's knowledge on shapes
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]]> 2021-03-02 13:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1258205064 Instructions linda_mason https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1258218164 1) Explore a range of different age-appropriate sequences and investigations on the NRICH website by clicking on the following three specific links:

2) Take one of the N-Rich tasks that you have explored to make a posting.

Put the name of the selected task as the title
Suggested age group
Add comments about the chosen tasks under the two headings: Positives/Potential Issues
Insert the direct web-link to your chosen task

]]> 2021-03-02 13:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1258218164 Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1 https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1302273377 Age 5-7

Positives:
- Allows for discussions surrounding why something could sometimes be true. Thereby facilitating mathematical thinking and reasoning.
- Questions could be made practical, allowing for students to develop from concrete to abstract thinking.
- Could be differentiated and altered in difficulty.
- May be a good activity to recap what has been learned over the course of lessons (formative assessment)

Potential Issues:
- Understanding could be dependent on student language/reading skills (Counter this by doing the activity as a class, led by the teacher? or students in groups).]]> 2021-03-12 12:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1302273377 Rods and Rods KS2 https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1306993231 Ages 7-11

Positives:
- Develops working systematically
- Encourages trial and error
- Interactive option (or physical manipulatives if possible) - develops a CPA approach (manipulatives can be replaced with visuals / drawings)
- Easily adaptable (using different sized rods)
- Could be completed in pairs / groups to encourage mathematical discussion
- Develops pattern spotting and thinking
- Can be extended past using cuisenaire rods to thinking about using numbers (how many ways can you make 10 using 2 and 1)

Potential Issues:
- Without use of concrete resources or interactive materials, understanding of equal amounts could suffer (ie. without being able to visualise that 10 whites = 1 orange)

]]> 2021-03-14 11:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1306993231 How Tall? https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1309722761 Age: 5-11

Positives:
- Develops a sense of team working (as they could work in teams).
-Shows that there is not always just ONE way to find an answer.
-Puts more emphasis on their working out and their investigation rather than the actual answer which might result in less Maths anxiety because the actual height of the tree is not what is important here (as long as this piece of information is shared correctly).
-Encourages trial and error-keep on trying.
-Easily adaptable to look at different objects withing the environment/providing multiple objects (different sized objects could require different measurements-different areas within Maths).
-As knowledge around Maths increase there will be different answers/ideas being built upon. What answers you get in year one will be different to the ones in year four.
-Question phrasing put the student at the center of the learning, as it states 'YOU' and makes it more child-lead than teacher-led.
-Develops independent working from the teacher.
-Allows for a lot of creativity and exploring.- Fun and engaging.
-Multiple resources could be used/introduced here by either the class or the teacher.
-Creates discussion such as where to start measuring from and where to stop measuring such as from the base of the trunk to the top of the trunk or to the highest branch or do you start from the roots of the tree.
-Allows for open questioning and questions which would show the depth of a learner's understanding.

Potential issues:
-If done in the classroom around an object the class can not see this might be quite hard for SEND learners who need more visual aids. Could also be more tricky for learners who believe they would need an actual answer on the size of the tree (this could be altered to give further support to help these students).
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]]> 2021-03-15 09:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1309722761 Carrying Cards https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1310119908 Age: 7-11

Positives:
-Pupils can work in pairs which will encourage discussion.
-Additional rows can be added to increase challenge for higher ability pupils.
-Practising number bonds, halving/doubling and looking for patterns/trends.
- It could be useful for pupils to practise highlighting key information in questions (useful for solving word problems).

Potential issues:
-children many not read through all of the information and miss important information.
- pupils may struggle to understand the pattern for the green shirts.

]]> 2021-03-15 11:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1310119908 Strike it Out https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1311547511 Age: 5-11
Positives:
- Easy game which children can complete in pairs, which will encourage discussion and sharing of skills.
- Good for practicing number bonds and working out the differences between numbers.
- Good for fluency skills and reasoning skills, if working in a team children can explain why they are picking certain numbers in order to cross off as many as possible.
- Simple to differentiate for different ages, and levels of challenge.

Potential issues:
- May seem a little bit complicated for children to understand initially, will need demonstrating for younger children.
https://nrich.maths.org/strike-it-out]]> 2021-03-15 16:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1311547511 Division Rules https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1312446023 Suggested age group 7-11
Positives:
Focuses on relations between numbers and engages reasoning. For example I focused on division facts with 6 and it quickly became apparent that to not have a remainder it would have to be an even number and a multiple of 3, which I could check by adding the digits. This made sense as 6 is just double 3 so therefore must both be even and a multiple of 3.

Potential Issues:
The challenge requires a lot of confidence in division which is often a tricky calculation. It also offers very limited guidance with how to explore the facts, and it is possible that pupils would be stuck on just focusing on odds/evens.]]> 2021-03-15 19:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1312446023 Pebbles https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1312887240 Age 7-11
Positives:
- can look into different perimeter of different shapes and gradually build up how the length or width
- can work on area of different shapes with how many equal squares there are in the different shapes.
- can let the pupils explore and give the pupils a chance to look at maths in a different way

Potential issues:
- could become complicated when more pebbles are added
- the children may and the pebbles inside for the shapes inside of the amount of square for the area.]]> 2021-03-15 21:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1312887240 The Numbers Give The Design https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1312938537 Age 7- 11
Positives:
-Concrete way of exploring number patterns
-Encourages boys to look at patterns
-No 'right' answer
- Encourages mathematical vocabulary- what number sequences can be used? Which sequences don't return to the start? Why?
- Easy to differentiate & develop
- Cross curricular links- computing, art & design.

Negatives:
- No right answer
- Frustration when the pattern doesn't go back to the start

]]> 2021-03-15 21:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1312938537 Domino Patterns https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1314426328 Age 5-7
Positives:
A game that can be played on their own or in pairs or even three's it encourages mathematical language and discussion, sharing of ideas to create patterns. Positional language, next to, top bottom.
- Counting of spots to focus on number leading on to subitizing .number bonds, ways to make 10, ways to make ... etc
-can use the coloured dots for pattern
- easy to extend the challenge into different games.
- It's a step up from counting individual concrete items

Negatives
_ dominoes are quite small, may want to print larger ones for children until they are confident at using them and recognising the dots
-if younger children are not secure in counting to 12 and remembering that one dot represents one number then they may find this activity to hard and will need role modelling. They may need physical blocks to show the groups of numbers on the dice.
Domino Patterns (maths.org)]]> 2021-03-16 08:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1314426328 Sticky Triangles https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1314660130 Age - 7 to 11.
Positives:
Good opportunity for group work or individual problem solving.
Introducing making shapes with different resources.
Can be extended/simplified to meet the needs of the class.
Has some links to science in the way of predicting results and recording findings.
Practicing of their timestable.

Potential Issues:
Children might struggle to see all of the squares, particularly ones in the middle.
They might lose track of how many sticks they have used. ]]> 2021-03-16 09:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1314660130 The Domesday project https://padlet.com/linda_mason/5qdtg9b2nsja/wish/1314817680 Age 7-11

Positives:
- interesting project related to a real life study from 1986 years ago
- celebrates 900 years since original domesday book - could be taught cross curricularly with a link to history/geography/English
- opportunity for children to create their own study as a class
- good differentiated reasoning questions
- possibilities for group work/group discussion
- lots of opportunities to make this a practical project that last over the course of a couple of lessons

Potential issues:
- the data may seem quite daunting for children who are lower ability/less confident
- the data isn’t presented in a way that is the clearest or how children may have seen data represented before - may cause some misconceptions

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