Learning to Explain our thinking in Maths


As part of our learning in Maths, we are learning to explain what we are thinking and how we came up with our answers.
We have found this can be a bit tricky, - but that's ok because we know about being in the learning pit.

On Tuesday we could choose between two math problems to solve.

1) A quarter of the flowers in the garden are orange. What might this look like?
and
2) A quarter of the cars in the car yard are blue. What might this look like?

Adele and Adhithi then recorded themselves talking about what they were thinking.


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