This week our numeracy focus is on a rich, open ended tasks.
What is an open ended task?
When teaching and learning in Mathematics at St Matthew's, throughout our diocese and the world the focus is on using questions that are open ended.
This means that there is either more than one way of working out the answer, more than one correct answer, or both!
In Infants an open question focusing on division may be something like:
A baker made 24 cookies. How could he arrange them so that each baking tray he used had an equal amount of cookies on it?
In Primary a question focusing on multiplication could be:
I wrote a multiplication problem on the board but some of it was rubbed off. I remember that I had a a seven in one of the numbers and that my answer had four digits. What could my equation have been?
This week students might like to share with you the questions they are working on in class!
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