Posts by Sara Sprague
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Meaty Mathematics
Wairakei Primary School teachers have been learning how to get their students to engage in meaty mathematics tasks.
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Managing Minecraft
Room 3 students know how to work out the area and perimeter of squares and rectangles and their teacher knows how to set a purposeful Minecraft learni…
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Dealing to Decimals
Training for the inter school Mathematics competition is underway for Years 5 and 6 students.
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Swoop Week
A “swoop” is a descriptive writing activity where students respond to an image.
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Skill Versus Luck
Rather than skill versus luck, it is actually a combination of both skill and luck that makes an effective math game.
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A Skinny Problem
As part of “A River Runs Through it “ inquiry, Room 3 is learning about the local waterways.
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A Balanced Diet
A Balanced Diet - with this title you may expect this blog to be about healthy eating. It is, in fact, going to be about math.
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Taonga Time
Our taonga (things we treasure or value) makes us who we are. Room 3 students have investigated their personal taonga and followed a writing structure…
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A Little Inspiration
Developing a positive class culture is important for student learning and wellbeing. Room 3, has integrated developing our class culture into art and …
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Do the Mahi. Get the Treats
There is nothing like chocolate to motivate some hard work thinking. Fair sharing a giant block of chocolate was a deliciously rich mathematical task …
