Day 6 in the Mathematics Practice Intensive was all about Measurement. I don't think I had connected how much you can use multiplicative thinking and working out during the Measurement topic. This got me thinking about integrating strands (again!) and that perhaps this would be a great one to integrate into next term's teaching and learning because I want to go back over addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have already 'done' measurement this year but how good to be able to cover it again and add new learning or consolidate the learning already covered. The part that stood out to me was the perimeter and area part. Perimeter is all about adding but also stepping it up if possible and using multiplication. I will also make sure that I am making the connections between arrays and area. Two birds, one stone, as they say!
Some thing else that really resonated with me was the teaching of angles. I am going to create a one week whole class/hub sequence of lessons on this. We will do learning around the vocabulary leading into actually measuring angles. I am thinking I will plan four days of good explicit teaching lessons and then make the fifth day a rich task. I am actually quite excited about this and think it will be a great first week back next term topic for maths.
