Maths - lesson 4 & 5

Now that a few hours have passed I am somewhat less frustrated and thought I'd better journal today's double lesson properly.

We did some number rhymes - he enjoyed the "10 fat sausages" one and we did this in 1's and in 2's and then a mixture of 1's and 2's which was challenging for him, but fun. He used his number line.

I introduced the 100 square. He counted in tens from various different numbers - up and down. Mostly got it right.

He did the worksheet, and when he checked his work he picked up his 3 mistakes on his own (on one worm had muddled backwards and forwards, on one he had forgotten to count in 10's, and then he'd became dyslexic on one muddling 42 and 24) and corrected them himself. I then made some rattlesnakes and he did another 4 along the same lines, and got them all 100% correct.

We had an interesting discussion about being "perfect". Because he IS such a perfectionist, I actually try to encourage him to try things out, and make mistakes, and even if its not perfect its ok, because no-one is perfect. But actually, when it comes to maths you can, and should, be perfect. Or not? Jonty believes NOT. I am now trying to change that perception!!!

We played a game with jelly tots when he could ask ME questions based on the 100-square. If I got it wrong he ate a jelly tot. If I got it right, I got the jelly tot. He liked the "power" of handing them out and telling me when I was wrong... (makes a change!).

We played odd and even snap - he won. surprise surprise....

We did a bit more work, using the multi-link cubes, figuring out odds and evens. I think he has a good grasp of it, even if he does call it "odd" and "evil". We ended off with some dice games which worked well. Good for practising addition and consolidating all we'd done on odds and evens, plus he won more jelly tots.

Hooray for Jellytot maths!!!