Easy Math

Tuesday the students did a similar activity with the building blocks but they were breaking them down instead of building up. They rolled a pair of dice and that number was their starting point. They set out their appropriate amounts of tens and ones using the blocks. Then they had to break down a ten into 10 tens and record the amounts of tens and ones again. They continued this process until the tens were 0 and the ones matched the full number. The students caught on very quickly this time. The main problems were keeping them on task and showing them how to count and match the place value charts with their papers. Once they grasped that, they were suddenly flying through the assignment.

It is also interesting to note that there seems to be a few students who stand out as excellent in math activities, a few who struggle with basic facts, and the rest are in between. They each learn at their own rate but at the same time they all need to be at the same level.