The Maths continues.

First day of the week. The group are still pretty quiet. I don't know why. SA and SH both came up with ideas for how they will keep themselves on task if they find themselves with some spare time. It took some prompting but SA decided to see me if it happened and SH decided to do some Maths. Interesting that ME and BR were absent today. Creates a new dynamic really although I am unclear why.
We reviewed Order of Operations in Maths - they seemed to handle this pretty easily. I then gave the problem: How can you get 5 from 5 twos (ie 2 2 2 2 and 2)? It took them a while but eventually they worked out that it was a order of operations problem: ie (2+2+2)/2+2. There were lots of other solutions. You can do the same with 3s, 4s and 5s all equalling 5. Finally I set another problem of how can five 8s equal 9 (but you can't use + and -). JQ came up with answer first ie 8 88/88, so I owe him a Chomp chocolate bar.
I have decided to use the SACSA frameworks to help me plan my lessons. This should give me a guide to what exactly the students should know and be skilled in. Now I can start planning units for the rest of the year.
We are going on a class walkathon on Wednesday. I will sit down and work out what we need to do to get this going ie hats, shoes, water. Should be interesting.