An activity to stimulate thought and reasoning around negative and positive numbers and how they work. My intention is to help children think around an idea and how it could be used in life and philosophical ideas in modern presentations of mathematical ideas. This power point is a background for discussion and questions that relate to positive and negative numbers.
A powerpoint to illustrate and demonstrate solving word problems involving time using add/sub/multi/divide. Aligned with Common Core Standard: 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.7, Number and Operations in Base Ten: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. Aligned with Common Core Standard: 3.NBT.2 Number and Operations in Base Ten: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
This power point and activity sheets, are to help children think logically and methodically about solving number problems. The class could rehearse the skills needed, or just let the children have a go at working out the puzzles.
This series of resources is to present to teachers some wider ideas as to what Mathematics and learning actually is. It steps outside the National Curriculum and asks some searching questions about what we are doing and why we are doing it.
It is linked to a website called maths anarchy.