Thursday 13 September 2012

Explain like I'm 5

Much fun had today when I made year 8 talk me through a subtraction sum like I was 5.
'put a line through that 2'
'why?'
'because you need to put it there'
'why?'
'it has to be bigger than that 4'
'why?'
'oh miss, that's so annoying'

No, really?

I like it though, they really had to think through what they were doing (and why) and prompted a good discussion with very little input from me. Excellent.

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