talking+about+strategies

To be a successful mathematician we need to be able to explain the strategies we use when solving number problems. The voicethread below shows some addition and subtraction sums/equations where the children from Room 14 have explained the strategy (or strategies!) they used to solve each equation.

Just click on the arrows at the bottom right/left of each slide to move through the different equations and the audio of each child's voice recording should start once the page has loaded.

There are many reasons why it is important to record our strategies;
 * to capture our ideas using our voice
 * to share our strategies with other people (at our school, our community, our world)
 * to listen to our ideas at a later date and see if we've learnt better (or quicker) strategies
 * to teach other people different ways of solving the same equations

When you listen to the different strategies you may learn a new strategy. If so, please use the discussion tab at the top of the page and send us an email about it!

Happy listening!

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Click on the link/picture below to check out a great website (wiki) where children from around the world have explained their math strategies. It's worth a look!