Understanding the value and structure of numbers is something many learners struggle with.
By explicitly teaching, and reinforcing, place value concepts we can help our learners become more competent mathematicians who understand how numbers work. This ability to understand, relate, and connect numbers can help them grasp numbers whether they be small or large, percentages, fractions or decimals, and is crucial for problem-solving and higher-order mathematical thinking.
Including a daily routine somewhere within your mathematics lesson can help to develop this competency within your learners. It doesn’t always have to be at the start of the lesson, it could be at the end. It’s the repetition that counts, not the timing of it.
Inspired by the EduProtocol movement I began using MathsReps this year - a quick guided scaffold for revisiting concepts that had been taught and are reinforcing the mathematic concepts.
I also wanted to maximise the opportunities the iPad offers, so I included some opportunities to add voice to explain their thinking, and the camera and pencil to encourage a bit of creatively at times too. However I had to keep in mind that I wanted this to be a routine, not a whole lesson, so I did have to tweak some of the more creative ideas. 😂
The frameworks have worked really well and the more we did it the faster everyone got at completing them.
Below is a compilation of examples that can be used at multiple levels. Feel free to download the Keynote and tweak the scaffolds for your learners.
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