Maths Learning Story

In maths we learn how to friendly argue. Friendly arguing is when you disagree with your learning team, but use respectful manners to do this. When you use friendly arguing you are not disagreeing with the person, you're disagreeing with the strategy that they use. I use friendly arguing to help my team think twice about their strategy and if it was the best strategy to use.


I have also been learning to work as a group and to be confident to share my ideas with my learning group.When I am working with a group I always try and include people who don't know what to do so that they are not passengers, and can explain how to solve the problem.

In maths I always try to solve the problem quickly. I visualise the problem to see what the problem looks like and what it's asking me to do. I discuss the problem with my group and talk about what is the best strategy to use. We have been learning to use multiplication strategies because it is more efficient.

An example is when I used place value partitioning. An example is when I solved the conscription problem 

I knew the problem was 96 x 15=

so I did (90x10)+(90x5)+(10x6)+(6x5)= (900+450+60+30) then I went 90+1,350 
after I thought WOW that is to hard to add up.So I rounded up the 90 to 100 then (100+1,350=1,450 then 1,450-10=1,350) the reason why I subtracted 10 is because I added 10 to round (90 to 100.)

I also try to ask questions like "can you explain your strategy?" or "do you understand?" When I am explaining my strategy I make sure my group understands it and that they are able to explain my strategy back to me.

Everyone in the group has a role and responsibility to  share their ideas, help each other,include everyone and participate.I am also a Role Model for the year 6 people I work with sometimes.

Next steps:My next steps are to try and let other people write their thoughts and their strategies.