Gretchen's learning

Another great session with Rob today.  I like that this was 'PLD for affirmation'. It showed how we can strengthen things we are already doing - not necessarily more stuff we need to do.  As an example, we thought of a game used in a junior maths class. We then looked through Rob's  Level 1 elaborations  and highlighted which elaborations were being 'activated' when the students played the game.   I thought of a game I saw some children in Karaka playing where they rolled a dice and covered up that amount of numbers on a hundreds board with counters. This is activating forward number sequences and visual patterns for numbers. Rob challenged us to think how we could tweak the game to hit more of the elaborations - e.g. use two dice, record the number they roll, do it backwards (ie cover the numbers first and remove them - so backwards sequencing). This emphasised the value of games in our maths programmes and how much learning they offer. We can use a game t...