Maths Workshops In Habitat 17

In habitat 17 we are beginning to run our maths workshops. This week we have been focussing on addition and subtraction. Through maths testing with the students we have identified specific areas the students need to work on. We have shared these tests with the students and have formed our workshop groups based on their gaps.

The goal of these workshops is for students to learn and develop new strategies to solve problems. The focus is on selecting the correct strategy to match the problem and then explain how they have solved the problem rather than coming up with just the correct answer.

Below are some examples of students explaining their learning from the workshops:

Hi welcome back to my online learning journal I am going to be sharing with you my home link that I did. so first lets just say 93 - 8 = then the first thing was you have to split the 8 but you have to add in a 3 when you split the 8 so if you split the 8 it will be a 3 and a 5 so you then you do 93 - 3 = 90 then you would want to do 90 - 5 = 85 so the answer was 85 and that is a easy way to subtract. Hope you enjoyed.

Click here to listen to Mari-Lyn explaining her learning

Click here to listen to Mariska explain her learning