This week at Spaghetti Maths we considered the idea of patterns, both visual and numerical and the importance in mathematics to be able to recognise patterns.
We had a look at the children’s ‘favourite times tables’ (yes they all seemed to have one!) and we found the ones they liked the most had nice patterns in them, such as the 10, 5, 9, 11; we are naturally drawn to patterns!
I then showed the children my favourite times table – the 1089 times table and we looked at the number patterns in that…..ask the kids for details.
They then all made a Spaghetti Maths ‘Number Flip’ a nice thing to make and use to practise questions and answers, most of the children took these home with the 1089 times table on it.
To finish, the class were divided into 3 teams and we played a team game where all the children were different digits 0-9. The were then asked a series of maths questions, to answer the questions the children with the correct digits had to stand up; the children were impressively competitive at this!
Until next week.
Jonny