Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Exploring the number line - well exploring between 0 and 1 on the number line!

Today for maths we had a discussion about whether there were any numbers between 0 and 1 on the number line. At first, everyone was quite adamant that there were not any numbers between 0 and 1, but then we remembered a couple of weeks ago the temperature at 7am in Auckland was 0.8 degrees! So we explored where 0.8 would go on the number line. We plotted some other numbers like 0.5 and 0.2 then we talked about fractions and where would they go on our number line? We found this quite a challenge but we enjoyed listening to each others ideas about where the numbers should go. It wasn't easy but it was very satisfying when we could see our work! Here are some pictures of our number line work.(btw - please excuse the mess in our classroom - we've been very busy!)

2 comments:

  1. kia ora Room 5.

    It looks to me like you may have been talking about decimals. What a fun way to learn. Nothing wrong with a mess, when you make a cake you can make a mess , but when it comes to eating who cares :) .

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  2. wow we had a lot of fun learning about if there a lot of numbers in between 0 and 1 and there were a lot fractions and decimals

    by hellen

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