CEIP ANTONIO MACHADO
Maths workshop: 20 face
Once a week, in CEIP Antonio Machado, we use one of maths session to work on workshops. Depending on the course and the topic we want to cultivate, we change the proposal activity.
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The workshop explained below was worked with first and second courses of primary education.
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1. Aims.
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To work on the concept od number.
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To go over numbers and adds.
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To add up mentally to twenty.
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To know the maths bars and their value to use them in mathematical tasks.
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To play in pairs.
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To follow the game rules.
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to foster our pupils cooperative learning.
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2. Material need.
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Maths bars boxes.
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3. Game.​
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The main aim of the game is creating "faces" using terminal strips which add not more then twenty.
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4. Steps to follow.
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Step 1. We need to divide the students into pairs.
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Step 2. Pick up maths bars. Their value must be twenty.
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Step 3. Create a face (eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows...) using the bars chosen.
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Step 4. Write down the add of all the bars that justify that their value is twenty.
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Optional step. When the face is finished we can ask different questions to the pupils: "Which is the value of the bars using to do the eyes/mouth...?"; "How many maths bars do you use?" and so on.
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