Barrow o' Bricks
This task is designed to follow the using 5's lesson
You can carry six bricks in a barrow load.
And you carry six barrow loads of bricks to make your fence.
How many brinks to do you have to make your fence?
What might your fence look like when you are finished?
And you carry six barrow loads of bricks to make your fence.
How many brinks to do you have to make your fence?
What might your fence look like when you are finished?
Big Ideas |
Expected Student Resonses |
Numbers can be split up to make working with them easier.
Use 5x tables to work out other problems. |
Drawing a wall and couning parts of it and adding them.
Skip counting in 6's Doubling - 6 + 6 = 12, then adding 12's? Using 5's then adding remaining ones. |
Hook?
What a strange person put this on youtube?
Student Responses
There were two great responses who did not need any prompting to reuse yesterdays strategy.
Two other pairs had solved the problem with different strategies and I redirected them.