DMIC Maths lesson

As part of our school maths overview, we have been introduced to a new maths program called DMIC (Developing Mathematical Inquiry Community).  We have been exploring a new way of teaching and learning maths concepts.  We are now into term two and have had experienced a different way in where we as students, communicate, support and share our knowledge in Maths.

For Maths yesterday, we had our normal program where we are split into two groups of mixed abilities, one group working independently and one group with the teacher.  Our group was with Mrs Aliifaalogo.

WALT

We Are Learning To improve in communicating our mathematical thinking.   

What that looks like is sharing our working out, explaining our working out and asking questions for clarification or understanding of how you worked out a maths problem.

For maths today, we learnt that:

•  You need to know your times tables to be able to work out fractions.  
• The maths vocabulary for sharing is division.
• The maths word for collecting is adding or multiplying
• You must work out 1/5 (denominator may change) of a fraction before working out 3/5 (numerator may change) of a fraction.
• To explain your thinking clearly for others to understand you,

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Our WALT that we created together at the end of the lesson was

 We Are Learning To use basic maths knowledge to work out fraction questions.