Coral Counting
This warm up can be modeled once or twice and then student lead.
Write up the numbers you wish to skip count in: eg 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30
Point to each number and class counts with you.
Select a student to choose a number to be removed. This should be replaced with a box.
Repeat until all numbers are replaced.
Offer a limited number of students the opportunity to demonstrate individually.
Confident students may wish to go back wards.
At the end of each fortnight - students demonstrate to the teacher individually that they can do the activity independently.
Ideally - you should work this prior knowledge they are building into they problems during the week. For example, we were skip counting in 4's, this was the questions:
I have forty toys. I have to deliver the toys to some shops to be sold. Each shop needs 8 toys. How many shops can I give the toys too?
Write up the numbers you wish to skip count in: eg 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30
Point to each number and class counts with you.
Select a student to choose a number to be removed. This should be replaced with a box.
Repeat until all numbers are replaced.
Offer a limited number of students the opportunity to demonstrate individually.
Confident students may wish to go back wards.
At the end of each fortnight - students demonstrate to the teacher individually that they can do the activity independently.
Ideally - you should work this prior knowledge they are building into they problems during the week. For example, we were skip counting in 4's, this was the questions:
I have forty toys. I have to deliver the toys to some shops to be sold. Each shop needs 8 toys. How many shops can I give the toys too?
Part of the instruction for the problem was to think about how the warm up could help solve the problem.
Here the group was able to connect that prior knowledge to the problem and use it for an elegant solution that was accessible to some of the lower members of the group.
Here the group was able to connect that prior knowledge to the problem and use it for an elegant solution that was accessible to some of the lower members of the group.
You might notice the boy turned around with his eyes covered. He felt confident enough not to look from the beginning and was extending himself.