We are excited to announce that 6 Math Fact Fluency kits are now at the DLRC! These kits are all based around the book, “Math Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention” by J. Bay-Williams and G. Kling. The kit includes a copy of the book and a variety of math manipulatives to support the games outlined in the book. These kits include:
Estimating Challenges with Steve Wyborney
Checked out Steve Wyborney’s blog for some great ways to engage your class in discussions around estimating! He posts a variety of challenges to get your class engaged in thinking critically. Check out some great ideas here!
Growing Garlic
Ben is on the allotment with his Mum. They would like to grow some garlic and are deciding how to plant the garlic cloves.
Ben arranges the cloves into three equal rows and finds that he has one spare clove.
How many cloves might he have had to start with?
How do you know?
Ben plants cloves of garlic in two equal rows and has one clove left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in three equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in four equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in five equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again.
He plants cloves in six equal rows and still has one left over.
We know that he has fewer than 100 garlic cloves. How many did he have?
How do you know?
How many cloves might he have had if there were more than 100?
Problem from Enrich Math.