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    When observing a year 1 math class, I was introduced to the benefits of visual and manipulative learning. This teaching strategy encouraged greater student participation and engagement. Students could explain to me how the games worked for division and multiplication. These sessions are known as 'Jaffa Maths' and 'Monkey Maths'. The session is run every Tuesday, between recess and lunch. Jaffa Maths: is about engaging students with multiplication strategies. The multiplier is always made using black digits/plates, and the multiplicand is always made using red or orange digits/Jaffa lollies. The class is given a worksheet with the table on it (no answers). With the class teacher they work on the multiplication sum. Students organise the plates and lollies into the correct layout and count. When they know the answer they use bubble writing to write the product in the right space. The class Education Assistant (EA) works individually with students to complete the remaining two sums on the page. For addition and subtraction students are expected to create the sum and product using MAB base 10 blocks. Students then move to the mat and whiteboard and make a circle. I was shown how Monkey Maths is done as a whole class activity. Banana lollies are passed out. Yellow pop-sticks and brown plates are placed in the circle. The sum is written on a piece of paper on the whiteboard. e.g. 16 / 4 = A student is chosen to work out how many plates (monkeys) are needed (4) and then 'shares' the 16 pop-sticks (bananas) between the plates. All students are encouraging and watching to discover the answer. When the plates all have 4 pop-sticks, the student writes the answer on the piece of paper. Students can now make the connection between the written sum 16 / 4 = 4 as the 4 plates with 16 pop-sticks shared. This teaching strategy is beneficial for the rest of primary school so students can complete this activity automatically when needed and arrive at the correct answer.

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    When observing a year 1 math class, I was introduced to the benefits of visual and manipulative learning. This teaching strategy encouraged greater student participation and engagement. Students could explain to me how the games worked for division and multiplication. These sessions are known as 'Jaffa Maths' and 'Monkey Maths'. The session is run every Tuesday, between recess and lunch. Jaffa Maths: is about engaging students with multiplication strategies. The multiplier is always made using black digits/plates, and the multiplicand is always made using red or orange digits/Jaffa lollies. The class is given a worksheet with the table on it (no answers). With the class teacher they work on the multiplication sum. Students organise the plates and lollies into the correct layout and count. When they know the answer they use bubble writing to write the product in the right space. The class Education Assistant (EA) works individually with students to complete the remaining two sums on the page. For addition and subtraction students are expected to create the sum and product using MAB base 10 blocks. Students then move to the mat and whiteboard and make a circle. I was shown how Monkey Maths is done as a whole class activity. Banana lollies are passed out. Yellow pop-sticks and brown plates are placed in the circle. The sum is written on a piece of paper on the whiteboard. e.g. 16 / 4 = A student is chosen to work out how many plates (monkeys) are needed (4) and then 'shares' the 16 pop-sticks (bananas) between the plates. All students are encouraging and watching to discover the answer. When the plates all have 4 pop-sticks, the student writes the answer on the piece of paper. Students can now make the connection between the written sum 16 / 4 = 4 as the 4 plates with 16 pop-sticks shared. This teaching strategy is beneficial for the rest of primary school so students can complete this activity automatically when needed and arrive at the correct answer.

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    Tuesday Maths

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    Kirstee Birch
    When observing a year 1 math class, I was introduced to the benefits of visual and manipulative learning. This teaching strategy encouraged greater student participation and engagement. Students could explain to me how the games worked for division and multiplication. These sessions are known as 'Jaffa Maths' and 'Monkey Maths'. The session is run every Tuesday, between recess and lunch. Jaffa Maths: is about engaging students with multiplication strategies. The multiplier is always made using black digits/plates, and the multiplicand is always made using red or orange digits/Jaffa lollies. The class is given a worksheet with the table on it (no answers). With the class teacher they work on the multiplication sum. Students organise the plates and lollies into the correct layout and count. When they know the answer they use bubble writing to write the product in the right space. The class Education Assistant (EA) works individually with students to complete the remaining two sums on the page. For addition and subtraction students are expected to create the sum and product using MAB base 10 blocks. Students then move to the mat and whiteboard and make a circle. I was shown how Monkey Maths is done as a whole class activity. Banana lollies are passed out. Yellow pop-sticks and brown plates are placed in the circle. The sum is written on a piece of paper on the whiteboard. e.g. 16 / 4 = A student is chosen to work out how many plates (monkeys) are needed (4) and then 'shares' the 16 pop-sticks (bananas) between the plates. All students are encouraging and watching to discover the answer. When the plates all have 4 pop-sticks, the student writes the answer on the piece of paper. Students can now make the connection between the written sum 16 / 4 = 4 as the 4 plates with 16 pop-sticks shared. This teaching strategy is beneficial for the rest of primary school so students can complete this activity automatically when needed and arrive at the correct answer.

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    of 2

    3 plates with 7 Jaffas each.

    Equals 21 Jaffa lollies on the plates.

    There are 16 bananas and 4 monkeys. How


    many bananas do each monkey get?
    4 bananas each.

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