The Foundation students have recently participated in open-ended maths tasks. Rather than maths concepts and problems with only fixed answers, students are exposed to tasks that involve many correct answers, solved in a variety of ways.
‘When you look out the window you see 20 legs! What do you see?’ Was the recent task where students could use any combination of animals or insects to get a total number of twenty legs. This way, students were able to demonstrate (as described by ACARA, the curriculum organisation) how to ‘represent practical situations to model addition…initially to 20 and beyond.’
As you can see from the photos of Lachlan, Aviva, Devante, Lars and Lea, the students were proud of their efforts and shared their mathematical thinking with the class.
Foundation Team