MPI Day 4 - Number whole and rational

Today we looked at a range of strategies for planning and implementing effective practice around teaching the number strand of the NZ Curriculum. I found the specific examples really inspiring and helpful to be able to take away with me. I am looking forward to introducing my students to choral counting and getting them to find patterns in the number sequences in class. I think this one activity has a huge range of scope to be bought into my classroom and can see myself using this to introduce and reinforce many different concepts within the maths and number curriculum.

It was great to dive deeper into tried and true strategies to teach specific concepts, and have time to look at resources and ways to use manipulatives, and then plan and program using these. Especially those of place value, fractions and integers.

It is great to have so many functioning examples of task boards to draw from. I definitely feel like I am not trying to start from scratch, but rather that I can manipulate existing provided systems to work well for me within my context, and therefore spend more of my time and energy focusing on implimentation rather than paperwork.

I am going to impliment specific ideas and concepts from today such as having 3 types of fractions written on a single number line, a classroom maths dictionary (to help us learn the language of math) percentage strips, and tip charts. I am adding these concepts to my current planning. I also found the slide of online manipulatives absolutly game changing for me. Having all these resources in a single space will make teaching older students so much easier. It can often be hard to store large quantities of manipulatives in a senior classroom, so having a digital alternative available to be able to give students unlimited access both in the classroom and outside of school is fantastic.